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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

33 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

If you want to read a toxic sociopathic petty drama fest, this is the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Infertility, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Stalking, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Abandonment, Sexism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Dementia, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

fuzzygazelle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

An incredible thriller. The character work is astounding, Gillian Flynn really nails it with the different ways the characters highlight the traits in one another. Despite most of the cast being incredibly flawed you cant help but be captivated by these flaws and how they affect each person's relationships with one another. The tension is incredibly well handled and the plot keeps you guessing the whole way through. The social commentary is incredibly well written with its commentary on gender, feminist ideology and the role of the media and public opinion in the judicial system.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Self harm, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Minor: Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Vomit, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Infertility

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.5

This book is vicious. I adore how you never truly like or trust Nick and Amy. You always feel that there is something we as an audience dont know. I mean I can't help but root for Amy as a girls girl but both Nick and Amy are hardcore narcissistic sociopaths. They both truly believe that they're in the right and the other deserves death or jail time. Its amazing how Flynn makes both Dunnes people you hope make it out and people you hope go to prison. I just wish it was formatted a little more comprehensively. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Stalking, Confinement, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Sexism, Violence, Alcohol, Misogyny, Cancer, Classism, Medical content, Domestic abuse, and Gore

hatchtag's review against another edition

I could already tell where it was going, not bad writing but I think just cultural awareness of the story/spoilers. The pacing started to feel a bit slow, figured it would pick up but wasn't feeling it. Most of all...I absolutely hated the characters. I know they are meant to be hateable so good writing (?) But especially on audiobook - and especially all the aggressive "b*tch b*tch b*tch"s from Nick's dad and Nick...it was too much and got harder to stomach than I anticipated. I don't know where the story could have gone that would have pulled me back in and made me glad I finished...but, I did like the author's style. Not the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Alcoholism, Dementia, Alcohol, and Infidelity

Minor: Infertility, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Graphic misogyny,

mirandahems's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Rape, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Sexual assault

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

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

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

sonjaswanson's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

I will be thinking about this book for a while. I saw the movie in theaters and remember all the feelings I had then. I feel the movie is very accurate to the book. The whole time I was thinking “I wish I could read this blindly” because I know these plot twists would be so good. I love the unreliable narrators. I love super flawed characters. I love the satire and critique for men/women dynamics, true crime in media, and so much more. There is so much to analyze I wish I was reading this with somebody to talk it out. Amazing book, can’t wait to read more from the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Dementia, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Death of parent, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Stalking, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Classism, and Grief

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Cancer

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Cursing, Alcohol, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Classism, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Gun violence, Medical content, Body shaming, and Cancer

marlisenicole's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Mental illness, Vomit, Dementia, Infertility, Blood, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Gaslighting, Suicide, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Rape

hannahmg's review against another edition

challenging 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

2.0

 0/1 overall
1/2 writing/structure/character creation
1/2 enjoyment

I would not recommend this book.

Overall I did not enjoy this book, the first 250 page were not needed and were poorly written, the last 50 pages were as bad as the first part of the book. I only enjoyed a small snippet of the book. The length of this triller is way to long and unnecessary. I felt like I was reading a first draft of a idea.

The writing was partly smart with good ideas but poorly done, the journal extracts giving us a unreliable pov which was smart, reminded me of Dracula, but this was done in a manner which made it worthless, more dialogue than actually description, this was so unrealistic it was unnecessary to make it seem like a dairy. Nicks pov was closer to a dairy than Amy's own dairy entries. The repetition was unbearable, -yes Nick we get it you have a mistress and she is young, very young, and pretty.
The character creation was immense and well though through, Amy and Nick are both so realistic but fucked up at the same time. This is one of the major reasons it is a two and not a one star review.

I thought there was a lot of unnecessary added details, the level of Misogyny and sexism was not needed and weakly touched on at the end. Specifically the character of Nick's father who has Dementia and becomes extremely misogynistic, with the use of the slur "bitch" in both his speech and Nicks thoughts. Why add this, I just think the book would of been fine without it and it didn't feel like a representation of any sorts but more a tick for the check list and even excusing the behaviour.

I was very disappointed in the trigger warning list i found (Storygraph). Yes it is a thriller, we should expect triggering things but at the end of the day the book should have a page of trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Self harm, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Cursing, Cancer, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Gore, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Terminal illness, Infertility, Grief, Rape, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Torture, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Lesbophobia