Novel Review: Gone Girl
It's another warm spring morning in N orth Carthage, Missouri, and it's Nick and Amy Elliott Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. The scene is set for a celebration of a seemingly picture-perfect marriage. Presents, a cake, a handsome husband - but something is terribly wrong: Amy is missing. Nick runs through the house, crying out for Amy, belligerently. Realizing that the house is empty - save for Bleecker, the pet cat - he dials the police. But, things are not as they appear as in the several upcoming months, police discover evidence implicating Nick. Behind the picture-perfect marital facade hides a series of events filled with lies and deception between the couple slowly, painfully ripping them apart. Nick grows hard feelings towards his estranged wife, but is his mounting frustration enough to make him a killer? The novel by Gillian Flynn is both gripping and slow-burning as the plot is riddled with peaks and valleys. At times, I couldn't put the book done.