Thursday, January 24, 2013

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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There's the evil you can see coming and then there's Amy Elliott. a privileged New York girl who is the inspiration for her psychologist parents' bestselling series of children's books, "Amazing Amy."  Nick Dunne, Amy's husband starts to realize this after she disappears from their rented mansion in his Missouri hometown on their fifth anniversary. When he becomes the prime suspect in her presumed murder, underestimating Amy's sick genius and twisted gamesmanship could prove fatal. Then again, charmer Nick may not be quite the corn-fed innocent he initially appears. Flynn masterfully lets this tale of a marriage gone toxically wrong gradually emerge through alternating accounts by Nick and Amy, both unreliable narrators in their own ways. The reader comes to discover their layers of deceit through a process similar to that at work in the imploding relationship. Gone Girl is compulsively readable and creepily unforgettable.

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