Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Holy crap, what a roller coaster ride! I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that there are no good guys in this book--the characters range from flawed to dysfunctional to seriously fucked up. What starts as a mystery--and remains that for half the book, with tons of satisfying twists and turns to leave the reader guessing--evolves into a character study of how day-to-day disappointments and compromises can fuel the flames of dysfunction and draw two people into an ever-tightening spiral of codependent hatred and madness and need. I was never quite sure what was coming next, with shifting truths filtered through the lenses of a narcissist and a sociopath--two narrators, both unreliable narrators...though unreliable in the way all of us, no matter how (presumably) sane, are, filtering reality through our own needs, desires, beliefs, and what we would like to believe, especially about ourselves. That is to say, these people in this book are crazy...but sometimes they don't seem any crazier than oneself, and isn't that a little scary? This book is like a drug, a simultaneous adrenalin rush and mindfuck.

Just go read it.



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