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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

24 reviews

stilestastic's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, and Toxic friendship

blymanor's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Incest, Miscarriage, Vomit, Stalking, and Death of parent

fiona_245's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It is a good book in the sense that it made me reflect about the main characters, especially Amy Dunne. It's not an easy read per se since it took me a while to get used to the layout per chapter, alternating between Nick's and Amy's POVs - which got exhausting for a while because I like to read about Amy's chapters better. Nick's more detailed and more on flashbacks and dramas while Amy's are getting progression each time she gets a chapter.

While Nick's such a jerk for cheating on his wife - on his student! how disgusting! - Amy's revenge is more fucked up. To think that she was pretending to be this cool girl for Nick all along for many years, and eventually got bored of the pretense and resented Nick for not taking a hint and wanting to get back on Nick for that matter.. that's just sooo manipulative and cunning, borderline psychopath (ironic na Psych grad iyang fam). Her finding out his husband cheating only fueled to her hatred and she devised a revenge to frame her husband for a nonexistent homicide.
 
Her revenge on her HS friend is brutal as heck, poor Hilary is victimized even though it's not her fault Amy decided to cut her off by blaming Hilary that she fell off the stairs (caused by Amy herself, to play victim). She even used her ex (forgot the name) in her desperation after her revenge escapade got ruined, eventually she killed him. A murderer.

Amy's a sociopath. Her seemingly perfect image is maintained using her devious, pavictim card. Her revenge is just petty, esp to Hilary, playing god and it's not even justified. 

Overall, this book is really nice. It delved into a female character with questionable and borderline psyxhopathic/sociopathic behavior perfectly that I don't want to take anyone's sides.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

lannalynn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

watched the film and now read the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

janset's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Gun violence, Vomit, and Medical content

leighmac5's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Blood

Moderate: Bullying and Rape

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

bonchoix's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I didn't know how this book would hold up going into it having already seen the movie, but I had fun. Each (awful) character has a unique voice, and going into it already knowing what's going to happen made me appreciate the careful way the first section was crafted. Unfortunately, after the "reveal" the book drags most of the way through the middle section (way too much mundane day-to-day stuff), and parts of the final third were a little too convenient for me, but I thought the ending was great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Dementia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Classism

Incest is alluded to several times but does not actually take place in the story.