Gone Girl [2012]
by Gillian Flynn
470 Pages {Kindle Digital Edition}
Genre: Psychological Fiction, suspense, murder, thriller, best seller
Rating 5/5 ✌👀👀👩
Someone in the need of a good mystery thriller to curl feet on bed and sink into? This would be a perfect fit! The mindboggling plot unravels fast and steady releasing more shattering and shaky pieces to put the puzzle together. I have never come to hate or fear a fictional character so much .. that's how good the character of Amy is developed. If there is a gauge to warn us of such disturbed/destructive people as Amy in our vicinity/life .. it would be so much better! Flynn has managed to create Nick and Amy so good they become personal - take Nick's side or Amy's side but not both. Husband and wife play at a zero sum game .. Amy framing and proving him to be her murderer while Nick trying and struggling hard to prove otherwise. It is fun until it is not. An innocent man could have lost his life for the viciousness of an insane woman.
This book is sick! The main characters - Nick and Amy Dunne - are sick. Amy is a sick, twisted and convoluted sociopath. She has a history of self-harm and being vindictive towards people close to her who get on her wrong side. She has married someone and she is displeased with him for some trivial thing .. and all hell breaks loose. No doubt about it. Nick, better run! Nick marries her thinking her to be some cool girl - gets the shock of his life when she frames him for murder and lays out the case so thick he cannot escape. Their marriage starts as a fairy tale. It ends with both of them keeping their angers and actions in constant check with each other - Nick more so - so as not to blow up. The negative thing going for me with this book is I had already watched the movie. The positive thing is barring a couple of scenes and one or two twists I barely remember it.
Amy is a woman who all her life has looked for appreciation. And in her drive to get it became what the bestower of that attention sought. She meets a man she really likes and so puts up a show for him. They happily get married and for a while all seems bright. Then she starts getting bored or whatever, piece by piece drops her act and shows her real personality. Shrewd, manipulative, vengeful and not the damsel in distress type at all. Her husband seeks his missing comfort and levity elsewhere. The wife plans an elaborate scheme to frame him for her murder all the while chewing on her plans and sitting on killer bombshell revelations.
We read two different and opposite depictions of Amy in the book - in the first half as innocent and naive revealed through her diary entries and in the second half through her inner dialogue revealing to us how she truly is, what she actually feels, her intentions and her motivations. Throughout the book, the narrative alternates with each chapter between the husband Nick's narrative - of the present - and the wife Amy's diary - of the past and her POV of their married life. Both of them paint a different image of Amy as a person and concur with their marriage being a failing entity. Amy looks at herself as a sacrificing and loving, caring wife but Nick feels her to be a shrew, on a constant ride of psychological manipulation. After all is said and done, Nick's version of Amy is her real(fictional lol)self despite what the diary tells - or tries to tell - us. The diary is one more of her concoctions to build an iron strong noose round his thick neck. What starts off as a missing persons case soon devolves into a murder mystery and the husband is the sole suspect.
This story really got to me. I was sleeping but secretly wondering what would happen to the husband and how he might save himself from this situation she has pushed him into. She seems like a maniac depressive who while going down wants to take him with her. The challenge with writing these reviews is .. how much of the plot to let out and how much to keep under wraps. Towards the end .. I am always focused on the end .. the victory of Amy over Nick is complete. So why did she come back? How did chance and may be fate save him in the nick of an eye blink? How gullible he really is? I am on the side of Nick till the end!!
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