Book: Gone Girl

Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

Length: 415 pages

Format: Paperback
Price: Borrowed from a friend 

How I heard about it: My fellow teachers were talking about it

Premise: 30-somethings Amy and Nick have begun to unravel after five years of marriage. Amy's disappearance on the couple's fifth anniversary finds authorities baffled, the public concerned, and Nick, well, neither.

My Take: 8.5 out of 10 (scale here) 

This book was a page turner. It was the perfect thing for me to read while my husband was in the Philippines. Well, actually, maybe the perfect thing wouldn't have involved murder and abduction while I was sleeping alone at night…

Anyway, the book was very intriguing. It was a truly unpredictable plot that had me guessing throughout. I would start to think one thing, and then there would be a plot twist, and then I would think nearly the opposite. It was far more adult than my typical YAL read, but I didn't really mind so much because the plot was sooooo intriguing. The characters reminded me strongly of those in JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. Which I hated because they were terrible, terrible people. The same is true here, but the difference is that the story didn't depend on like able characters. Instead it was propelled by plot and intrigue. I rented the movie and asked Rick to watch it with me that night after he got back. He is an unequivocal master of "calling" mysteries within the first five minutes. For maybe the second time ever, he was wrong.