Book Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn opens on a sweltering summer morning as Nick and Amy Dunne prepare to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. When Nick returns home, he finds their house in disarray and Amy mysteriously missing. As the police begin their investigation, suspicion quickly turns toward Nick, whose behavior during questioning does little to help his case. If he didn’t do it, then who did? After reading the final words of Gone Girl , I set the book face down beside me and couldn't help but ask, "Did that really just end like that?" Never in my life has a book made me as angry as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl . I had to sit there for a minute thinking about what I had just read before picking it back up and throwing across the room. Of course, I immediately jumped up to retrieve it, worried I might have damaged it because as much as the story frustrated me, I still like to keep my books in good condition. Gone Girl as a whole didn't m...
