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Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Thrillers & Suspense
Do you ever wonder how authors can embed themselves into the minds of characters, characters who are purely evil or mentally deranged. Where do those horrific thoughts come from? I suppose it's better to write them down than manifest them in reality.
Gone Girl is written from binary first person points of view - alternating between Amy Elliott Dunne and her husband, Nick Dunne. The book gets off to a slow start, to the point where I almost abandoned it. Too many books too little time. But this book was listed as one of the top mysteries of the past decade AND it was made into a movie starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike so something has to happen, and it does.
Amy is amazing and she says so. She is a shape shifter who plans those futures shifts well in advance so that she can punish those who offend her. In her diary at the beginning of the book, Amy seems to be sweetness and light. She was brought up as a star in her parents' children's book series. Everyone loves her and is devastated when she disappears. But she has set it up to point the finger at Nick as the perpetrator who has been cheating on her.
The author does paint herself into a corner, and although how she steps out of it is reasonable, it's a bit of a stretch. There are also details of money and timing that bother me and I think that Nick, the husband, although seriously badly treated could have done better and doesn't come out of this story well.
This is one of those stories that I felt the reader was not treated kindly.
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