Gone Girl

The story of Nick and his wife, Amy, truly captivated me from the very beginning. I only heard of it from seeing the movie trailer on TV and felt a strong desire to read it afterwards. And am I truly grateful that I did.

As I've mentioned before, I like messed up plots and twisted story lines- the more messed up, the better. At least in my opinion. And boy did this book not disappoint and satisfied my sick craving for what-the-fuck-just-happened moments. It also delivered these moments again and again.

It started out innocently enough, I began and was enveloped into Amy's diary and then Nick's thoughts as he was going through the whole beginning of this ordeal. I loved how they used a combination of Amy's diary followed by Nick, as he was in present day. I actually found myself looking forward to Amy's witty, little journal entries that made me giggle and also gave me a keen insight into her mind, or so I thought. Also, her being a psychology major who's job was to write personality quizzes really gave her a nice little touch of something extra. I loved those personality quizzes coming through in her journal entries. Those journal entries were so believable, that I could actually imagine myself writing a journal entry of that nature. They was so real and down-to-earth, without trying to hide anything or make the person seem fake in any way. Here, it seemed, she was baring her soul to us. But little did we know.....

When I came to the part where I realized she was fooling us all along, I honestly had to reread that part a few times to make sure I didn't read that wrong. I must have asked myself WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL like 30 times. It came out of nowhere and left me breathless with a newborn need to find out what happens next, since at this point I had no fucking idea what to expect from this book anymore. It's like the book did a complete 180 and I loved that. Something might seriously be wrong with me but oh well.

This book kept me guessing until the very end, but even then it managed to fool me completely and it left me feeling like a complete and utter idiot for thinking something that was so far of from what really happened in the book. I honestly couldn't breathe at some points, it was so intense.

I am truly glad that I read this book before watching the movie because I don't think I would have gotten this complete “mind-fuck” of an experience if I had. It was just so raw, us being able to venture inside the heads of these two flawed people as they laid themselves out to us and the whole world to see. In addition, I absolutely loved the fact that we (the reader), found out new information as Nick found it appropriate to reveal to us. This made me feel at Nick's mercy and made the book that much more suspenseful.

Flynn's writing style is flawless and yet it's almost as if there is a personal style of each character's own way of thinking and the personal depth of them, who they are at their very core. It was a sophisticated read and yet it also felt very personal and unique to each character.

I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a book with depth, one that will keep you guessing and thinking about it long after you've put it down. I think mature audiences, who like a good surprise will love this book. Man, did I love this book, definitely one of the best I've read this year and ever in my life. Hands down.