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A review by soavezefiretto
Perdida by Gillian Flynn
4.0
Yes, everyone is right. This is a really, really good book. It's that thing that I had stopped believing in, the fabled "page-turner": a book you literally cannot put down. Perfectly crafted plot and characters, to the point where the reader doesn't even think "perfectly crafted" but is just absorbed into the story. Very well written, without any of the annoying "look how well I write, how brilliant my metaphors are" that makes me cringe sometimes. The sentences just tell the story, nothing more, nothing less. And a very gripping story it is. If you're interested in the dark recesses of the human psyche (and who isn't), if you want to be surprised, not by bombs, but by the twists of the mind, if you want to feel a cold shiver with absolutely nothing of the supernatural in sight, this book is for you.
The only thing I didn't like was how radical the story was. It gave me an unpleasant sense of distance even when I was most involved in the story, because I kept thinking - yes, people are dark and twisted, and marriages are even more dark and twisted, but people are seldom as smart as this, and very seldom they go to these lengths. If the author had written the same book but without the whole "plot" and instead had focused on the petty skirmishes that go on inside a marriage, unknown to everyone outside, I might have considered it a masterpiece.
The only thing I didn't like was how radical the story was. It gave me an unpleasant sense of distance even when I was most involved in the story, because I kept thinking - yes, people are dark and twisted, and marriages are even more dark and twisted, but people are seldom as smart as this, and very seldom they go to these lengths. If the author had written the same book but without the whole "plot" and instead had focused on the petty skirmishes that go on inside a marriage, unknown to everyone outside, I might have considered it a masterpiece.