Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
In my mind, it didn't live up to the hype, but this is one person's opinion.
At the beginning I thought of Amy as a spoiled rich girl used to getting her own way, and not much changed through the book. She was manipulative, conniving and clever enough to make the impossible seem real. Her husband Nick was a character that had no real backbone and allowed himself to get caught in the middle of Amy's web of deceit and lies. Can you say Black Widow?
A little twisting of the jilted lover scenario, yet I couldn't bring myself to care for either character. In their own way they got what they deserved, each other.
There were some honest, minor characters interspersed, and some wonderful prose, but the two main protagonists were a little too over the top for my taste.
At the beginning I thought of Amy as a spoiled rich girl used to getting her own way, and not much changed through the book. She was manipulative, conniving and clever enough to make the impossible seem real. Her husband Nick was a character that had no real backbone and allowed himself to get caught in the middle of Amy's web of deceit and lies. Can you say Black Widow?
A little twisting of the jilted lover scenario, yet I couldn't bring myself to care for either character. In their own way they got what they deserved, each other.
There were some honest, minor characters interspersed, and some wonderful prose, but the two main protagonists were a little too over the top for my taste.