Gone Girl

Well that was. Absolutely wild from start to finish.

The writer REALLY knew what she was going with this book. Not only was it compelling from start to finish, not losing my attention for a second, but she does the rare thing of keeping me exactly on track with where she wants me to be in regards of theorizing about the story. I find with most thrillers I'm constantly theorizing, and it's a rare book that can truly shock me because so many tropes have been done over and over again and, while that doesn't make the majority of thriller books bad, it does make them a bit predictable. And maybe this book was predictable at some points, but it was so gripping that you just didn't notice.

I was convinced in the first half of part one that Amy was framing him for being an awful husband. You could ‘see' in her diary entries that yeah he probably deserved all this awful stuff she was doing to him. And then came the entry where he shoved her and made her hit her head, and I thought ‘oh maybe he DID kill her'. And you're thinking this while also sympathizing with Nick even though you don't WANT to because even after you find out most of the diary entries were lies, you know he's still not a good person. Amy is absolutely worse, but you somehow want to root for both of them and also want both of them to go to jail.

The ending was...an ending!! Absolutely wild, I have to give it points for that. I don't know if it was how I would've wanted it to end, it wasn't really all that satisfying, but maybe that was the entire point. Points for being absolutely batshit insane from start to finish; it's hard for a novel to keep that kind of consistency.