Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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3 stars

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. It is crazy to think that I have been married for a decade. I feel like I can't be old enough to have come up to that milestone.

Looking back over that time I would probably do the same things all over again. It had been a pretty good 10 years, even if my husband does infuriate me sometimes. The thing is when you are together with someone for that long and you throw kids into the mix you can get caught into a rut and just go through the motions. So, it is important to try to keep things fresh and make time for each other. Easier said than done, but worth it.

Synopsis

It is Nick Dunne and his wife Amy's fifth year wedding anniversary. Things are a bit rocky in their marriage. But when Nick comes home and finds signs of  trouble and Amy gone his life gets turned upside down.

My Thoughts

Going into this book I had no idea what it was really about or anything other than I assumed  a girl would be gone. I know it seems hard not to hear or know anything about the book, but, I seemed to manage it. So I really didn't know what I was getting myself into.

On the whole I liked it. It did keep me reading and I wanted to know where this crazy roller coaster was going next. I was not over the moon with it as others were, I don't know if that was because there was a lot of hype about it or if it just wasn't for me.

I found the characters to be fairly unlikable. I am trying to think of one character I liked and can't think of any. But, I don't think the point was to like them. I think the point was to show that we are all human and have craziness in us or flaws that do not shed us in the best light.

This book was sort of like a cautionary tale of what happens if you do not have open communication with your partner, when you stop putting their happiness on your list of priorities and when one or both of you are just crazy sociopaths. It shows that we all have the ability to be cruel and vindictive and what can happen if we let those feelings of cruelty and vindictiveness rule our head. Sometimes I wish there could be books about normal relationships where people are genuinely concerned about each other and work together as a team and show us what a truly healthy relationship looks like. I know it wouldn't be the most interesting read, but I think if we saw that demonstrated more we wouldn't have as many messed up relationships as we see in this book.

So all in all, it was an interesting read with some interesting plot elements, I just wasn't a huge fan.