A review by louiseog
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

5.0

This book had me gripped from the start, told as it is, from two different viewpoints of one event. Nick and Amy had everything until it all went wrong, they lost their jobs, her perfect family proved flawed and they had to move back to his hometown. Gradually their marriage is failing but one day something dreadful happened......... This is the story of what happens when Amy goes missing in very suspicious circumstances and is a roller coaster. Suddenly everything that seemed real is not and the story jumps from time to time to create a completely different picture of the same circumstances.
I found my sympathies lurching and ideas about what might have happened whirling in my head. Gillian Flynn has created a really horrific villain, carefully crafted and entirely believable. A real tense psychological thriller, there were several moments when I gasped.
I loved the first two thirds of the book which seemed well thought out and carefully plotted. As I closed the book I did not feel the same about the ending which felt rushed to an unsatisfactory conclusion. On reflection though it was the only way to end the story as a more (having to be a bit careful to avoid spoilers) satisfactory ending would have been contrived and besmirch the perfect image of one of the most clever villains I have read.
Four and a half stars.