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A review by halfmanhalfbook
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
3.0
Having been used to the busyness of New York, Nick and Amy have had to downsize somewhat after they lost their jobs. They move back to his hometown to care for his dying mother, and he opens The Bar with his twin sister, using the little left in Amy’s trust fund to start it up. Even though it provides them with a reasonable living, but their marriage is foundering somewhat.
It is their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick returns home to find the front door left open and Amy missing. There are signs of a struggle, and traces of blood on the floor. He calls the police. They find the first clue of the anniversary treasure hunt she does so they decipher the first one, hoping this might help find where she is, but it doesn’t. As the police dig deeper into the relationship they find that not everything adds up, he has increased her life insurance, goods he says that he hasn’t bought are found in his sisters shed, his internet search history is suspicious too, they find her possessions near the river, and her diary implies that he is not the nice guy that people thought; what was a missing person search, is now a murder enquiry.
The revelations keep coming, and the public mood turns on Nick, as almost everything he says are considered lies.
But did he kill her, or is he being framed?
This isn’t a bad thriller overall. There are plenty of twists and turns as the story unfolds, with those characters that you think are quite pleasant, turning out to be much darker and twisted. It is a battle of wills between a careful, calculating psychopath and a happy go lucky person. Did feel a touch predictable with some events at times as well, but otherwise reasonable.
It is their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick returns home to find the front door left open and Amy missing. There are signs of a struggle, and traces of blood on the floor. He calls the police. They find the first clue of the anniversary treasure hunt she does so they decipher the first one, hoping this might help find where she is, but it doesn’t. As the police dig deeper into the relationship they find that not everything adds up, he has increased her life insurance, goods he says that he hasn’t bought are found in his sisters shed, his internet search history is suspicious too, they find her possessions near the river, and her diary implies that he is not the nice guy that people thought; what was a missing person search, is now a murder enquiry.
The revelations keep coming, and the public mood turns on Nick, as almost everything he says are considered lies.
But did he kill her, or is he being framed?
This isn’t a bad thriller overall. There are plenty of twists and turns as the story unfolds, with those characters that you think are quite pleasant, turning out to be much darker and twisted. It is a battle of wills between a careful, calculating psychopath and a happy go lucky person. Did feel a touch predictable with some events at times as well, but otherwise reasonable.