Gone Girl -- Gillian Flynn

     The first half the book is told through the eyes of a husband whose wife has been kidnapped and flashbacks from his wife’s diary. The way the husband handles stress makes him look guilty even to people who love him. As facts come out, it becomes more and more obvious that he is the one who killed his wife and threw her body in the river. The husband denies any of this and has no clue what is going on most of the time. He supposedly racked up thousands of dollars on credit cards, (he swears he doesn't know what the police are talking about), a lady claims to be his wife’s best friend, (he says they barely knew each other), doctors report the wife was pregnant, (he says there’s no way that’s possible). It finally comes out that he was having an affair, which he actually was guilty of. By the time he finds all the things that were on the credit cards in his sister’s shed, I was completely convinced that he had multiple personalities or as was guilty as it is possible to be. When the second half starts, there’s a huge plot twist. We discover that everything we've been told is wrong and we find out what really happened to all of the characters. All of the characters go to a dark place and when the wife finally makes it home, things don’t end the way I felt they should.

     Up until the last twenty pages, it was a great story. The first half was well paced and when the plot twist came it was a total surprise. The second half of the book was surprising and unexpected. I hated the ending though. The characters were not likable by the end and were the complete opposites of their original personalities. The wife was a complete psychopath, controlling, and manipulative. The husband was controllable and awkward. When it finally looked like he was growing a backbone, the wife plays her final card and cements her control over him forever apparently. It was well written but I just have problems getting past the stupidness of the way the book ends. The characters get everything they want in the end even though they are awful people who do awful things to the people and world around them. Everything is wrapped up with a nice neat bow at the end. Maybe I’m looking for too much realism in this story but I wouldn't read it again. 

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