Gone Girl

by Gillian Flynn

e-Pub, 449 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 2012 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

ISBN:: 978-0-297-85940-6

(115 reviews)

Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife Amy. Flynn has refuted the notion that she was inspired to write the novel by the 2002 murder of Laci Peterson in California, saying that although she saw parallels between that real-life case and her story, she makes a point not to rely on specific true accounts for her stories. Portraying her principal characters as out-of-work writers, she made use of her own experience being laid off from her job as a writer for Entertainment Weekly.Critics in the United States positively received and reviewed the novel. Reviewers praised the novel's use of …

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mothlight reviewed PERDIDA: (Gone Girl: Spanish-language) (Spanish Edition) by Gillian Flynn

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2 stars

One of those books which leaves you wondering, did I hate this book or did I just not enjoy I very much. Mostly, I think that I don't like books like this very much, which leave you resenting the time you had to spend with a lot of pretty repellent characters.

Sure, there are a million plot twists (all of them completely improbable and increasingly departing from any sort of sense of reality) and lots of action to drive the book onward. However, if I hadn't been reading this for a book club, I would have abandoned it 1/3 of the way in where it switches from most of the characters are awful to oh, looks like almost all of them are completely horrible. From then on it was I just want to get through this so I can be done with them and get them out of my life. …

Sean Gursky reviewed PERDIDA: (Gone Girl: Spanish-language) (Spanish Edition) by Gillian Flynn

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4 stars

This one stood up, got my attention and held it for the entire book. I have limited exposure to the crime/mystery genre but this was an entertaining read and once the story started it became a page turner and I didn't know what was coming next.

genex reviewed PERDIDA: (Gone Girl: Spanish-language) (Spanish Edition) by Gillian Flynn

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5 stars

Best book I've read this year! I can totally see this becoming a movie too.

Michael @ Knowledge Lost reviewed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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4 stars

I’ve been trying to review this book for a while now and it has become a real struggle. I don’t want to give any spoilers for this brilliant book so I will try my best, advanced warning; this review may have spoilers or turn out incredible vague. When I first saw this book I kept thinking this was just another YA novel but then I noticed this book kept popping up everywhere so I thought I better read what this is about and when I did; I had to read it right away.

When Amy disappears in suspicious circumstances all eyes fall to her husband as the primary suspect. Nick claims he is innocent but the evidence is not in his favour. Did Nick kill his wife? As this novel progressed any ideas of what happened will be shattered, any presumptions you’ve made about the characters will be wrong. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a dark and twisted journey with so much unpredictability that you will be up all night trying to find out what really happened to Amy.

What I loved about this book was that you never really know what to expect. The book is told from the prospective of Nick and Amy, the diary of Amy tells the back story of their lives while the alternative chapters told from Nick takes the story from the disappearance. Slowly the pieces start to fall into placed but there is always another curve ball just around the corner. The dark and psychological aspects of this novel remind me of something Jim Thompson would write but then the thriller and suspense of this book reminds me a lot of books like Before I Go to Sleep or Into the Darkest Corner.

Flynn did a brilliant job with this novel, it kept me up at night, made me want to skip work to read this book and in the end any spare time I had I was back in this book trying to find out what really happened to Amy. I wasn’t sure what I was in for and I didn’t know who to believe but in the end I enjoyed the ride. On reflection this book seemed incredibly basic with its plot but writing in a brilliant way that while reading you never have enough pieces to solve this puzzle. Highly recommend this book to any lovers of mystery and suspense.