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A review by advashaviv
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
3.0
I read Gone Girl with highly raised expectations, due to the amazing buzz it received, and this may have influenced my impression.
It took me about the first 20% of the book to actually start caring about Nick and Amy, neither of which I found quite likeable nor interesting. It began to be interesting once the mystery took in.
* SPOILER ALERT *
And then, the twist. Halfway around the book I didn't get to discover what happened; I was just told "actually, it was all a lie". How is that better than "actually, it was all a dream?" It isn't. Reading this scene (hardly a scene, actually. A perfect example of "tell, don't show") made me want to put the book down for good, but I read on. I thought Amy could by no means be so stupid as to let these two other hideaways (forgot their names) get so close to her. Her mistakes were so stupid, it made her whole character dubious: is she really so brilliant? How is that compatible?
I still give the book three stars because, tension-wise, it did a great job and there were parts when I couldn't put it down.
To sum up: enjoyable, but not brilliant as I had expected.
It took me about the first 20% of the book to actually start caring about Nick and Amy, neither of which I found quite likeable nor interesting. It began to be interesting once the mystery took in.
* SPOILER ALERT *
And then, the twist. Halfway around the book I didn't get to discover what happened; I was just told "actually, it was all a lie". How is that better than "actually, it was all a dream?" It isn't. Reading this scene (hardly a scene, actually. A perfect example of "tell, don't show") made me want to put the book down for good, but I read on. I thought Amy could by no means be so stupid as to let these two other hideaways (forgot their names) get so close to her. Her mistakes were so stupid, it made her whole character dubious: is she really so brilliant? How is that compatible?
I still give the book three stars because, tension-wise, it did a great job and there were parts when I couldn't put it down.
To sum up: enjoyable, but not brilliant as I had expected.