You may picture the average marriage revolving around two people who were heads over heals for each other committing to one another. During the marriage they go through a series of trying times that may either bring them closer or pull them apart. The couple may even begin to hate each other so much that they are driven to file for divorce. Nick and Amy Dunn are not your average happily married couple gone wrong. In this story of betrayal, wounded egos, and vengeance the reader is taken on a wild menacing ride. Gone Girl is not a happy, feel good love story with just a few bumps in an otherwise silky road. Nope. This road is paved in despair and carries you on an intense, mysterious, questioning journey of whodunit's, how's, and why's. The solemn tone is very often lightened with creatively injected humor, painting on a fairly substantial coating of irony in the process...Why, yes, this IS all very sick, but the snarky narration has me laughing anyway... The majority of the characters are complex and (being generous here) barely likable, but there were moments of honest empathy and deep sadness for them.
Once, I got through the last page I was like…
Here's an interesting piece on the author: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/01/gillian-flynn-bestseller-gone-girl-misogyny
