Gone Girl

I just finished reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and I'll admit I had a hard time putting it down. The dialogue was well written, quick and witty. The concept promising, a thriller told by two unreliable, neurotic, narrators with potentially deadly secrets they wanted to hide from the reader as well as each other.

But (there's always a but, right?) the minute after I finished it, I felt a little cheated.

Move over Amy.

So psychological intrigue paired with witty dialogue, what's my problem?

By the end, I had a hard time believing in some of the characters' motivations and found some of their games to be a bit flimsy. For example, would it be as easy as reading a few love letters to start to fall back in love with someone that you think is framing you for their murder? I guess maybe you have to be truly insane to understand the possibility.

Or at least a bit insane to think that hard about it, ha.

In the end, I'd recommend it being worth the quick read. It was certainly thrilling enough to keep me coming back for more.