I obviously know about the permanently-famous Gone Girl book, written by Gilllian Flynn. However, I’ve never read the book nor watched the movie (something that I don’t like doing if I feel like the book is worth my reading time). So while searching the shelves of English titles, I saw this little thing.

It’s a pretty small book, with a nice cover. I decided to take it home with me without reading the summary (as I often do). It took me a few months to get to it, but when I did, I read it in one sitting. After all, it’s a tiny book and the beginning of the story is very well developed. Like I said, I didn’t read the back cover for the summary, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

The unnamed protagonist is a street-smart and, to some degree, a book-smart person that has no shame whatsoever in conning people for a living. That already makes a great plot start. As the book progresses and we start to visit the Mansion where most of the story takes place… Well… Things start to fall apart.

And that ending was very disappointing, specially for the speed it was delivered. Maybe if we had more built up between the two possible versions of what really happened in the Mansion, the dubious ending could’ve been amazing, but as it is written… Pfff. Totally eye-rolling.

Do I recommend it? Maybe, but just because of the beginning. Many nice lessons about character development there. Other than that, no.