I've been hearing about this book for months, and I finally bought in on my post-Christmas book binge. I knew the story line: A woman disappears on her 5 year anniversary. It had to have been the husband. Right?
I got into the story immediately. It switches between present day Nick (husband) and past diary entries from Amy (wife), and what made it so great was that I sided with each character as I was reading their story. I never knew whether or not Nick killed her, even when it sounded like he was blatantly admitting it. He wanted to connect with his wife, but she had changed. She was cold and nagging, and honestly just a big ol' b-word.
Then I'd read her chapters. And I found her incredibly relatable. I thought that she was laid back and down to earth. Sure, her marriage had it's problems, but she wanted to fix it. She loved Nick and she was willing to fight for him. She was trying. And he was a sexist a-hole. I couldn't pick a side. I was constantly on my toes.
And everything that you think is wrong.
This book was fantastic. There is really no other word to describe it. Every time I formed an opinion, every time I thought I could predict what would happen next, I would be proven wrong.
Gillian Flynn is a genius. Her writing is easy and witty, and even in the midst of a high anxiety, terribly dramatic scene, she could still make me laugh. Every single character became real to me and I couldn't put the book down.
I cannot say enough about it. My mind is blown. This is a book that I am going to need to recover from, like when I read Gone With The Wind. It is going to take me some time to come out of this story.
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