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| Four out of five possible bookmarks |
Gillian Flynn
2012
Antonia's Rating:
It’s a mystery! I’m not sure why, but this surprised me,
guess I was expecting something more like love’s lost and it either works out
in the end or it doesn’t.
This is Gillian Flynn’s third novel (see others listed
below), and it is destined to be some kind of award winner like her other two
books.
Gone Girl is a spectacular murder mystery along the
Scott Peterson lines. I’ll let other reviewers divulge more of the plot than I
feel comfortable doing. Suffice it to say, the husband, Nick, is singled out as
the killer of his wife, Amy, who might be pregnant.
As a writer, I appreciate anyone who can write a clever
novel with an opposite sex narrative. Ms. Flynn does an excellent job of
getting into the mind of her male defendant. His voice sounds genuine.
This intriguing story is about the power struggles within a
marriage. Gone Girl plucks out that ugly core of most relationships and
holds it up to the light of just how far husbands and wives may go to be the
one on top.
I like the book’s methodology with Nick and Amy taking turns
tossing out myriad details and lots of twists and turns in alternating chapters.
The writing is smart and entertaining and very straightforward and, always
appreciated by me, easy to follow. Too much weirdness and I’m flipping to the
end to see where a book winds up.
Gone Girl makes me question whether we can really
ever know a person … know a spouse. This is a great read, and I highly
recommend it.
Other books by author:
Sharp Objects, Dark Places
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