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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

22 reviews

2hermione4's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Alcoholism, Infertility, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Classism

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Alcohol, Dementia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Classism, Drug use, Fatphobia, Medical content, and Racial slurs

taytayc23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was the first Gillian Flynn I ever read and absolutely loved it. The plot line had me hooked and I didn't want to put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Self harm, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Rape, and Mental illness

ellagewerwhite's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Cursing, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Vomit

ldoppstadt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

freja's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Infertility, Fatphobia, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Blood, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Infidelity, Dementia, Death of parent, Cancer, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Miscarriage, and Stalking

mitskienthusiast's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

this book is about how marriage between two narcissists work, you have two unreliable narrators that are fully convinced they are in the right and are able to change their feelings.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

soyreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A good domestic thriller that got me out of my reading slump.

It was a fairly easy read and it kept me at the edge of my seat. Although I already saw the movie, reading the book gave me more insight about the character's thoughts. Would highly recommend this for those who would love to start reading thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death, and Cursing

Moderate: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Blood, and Alcoholism

Minor: Miscarriage and Death of parent

magicalsocks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

(4/24/21)

“Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times. Unconditional love is an undisciplined love, and as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”

“You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.”

my god these white people are fucking craaaaaaaaaaaaazy. 

devoured this completely within the span of four-ish hours and even with my advance knowledge of all the major plot point and spoilers it fully completely absolutely lived up to and surpassed the hype. 1 star taken off because

the pacing of the post-reunion section felt off (personally i would have preferred a more ambiguous ending very shortly after the return - nick (1) genuinely and seriously titling his book “psycho bitch” and (2) genuinely and seriously being excited about bringing an actual child into that relationship   fully destroyed my suspension of disbelief).

that said, maybe the first book i’ve read where i can so viscerally hate these characters for their ego and self-righteousness and inner monologue and simultaneously see some of my own flaws reflected within them so clearly. but maybe that’s just because i’m a virgo.

gillian flynn is a GENIUS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Cursing, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Alcoholism, Incest, and Addiction