This gritty tale of a missing woman kept me hooked from start to finish. Gillian Flynn paints a very realistic picture of Nick and Amy's once-rosy relationship which is now starting to fray at the edges. Things are tough for them and then Amy disappears. It looks like there has been a struggle and as we all know, the police look to the husband first.
Not wanting to give too much away for anyone who hasn't read this, I won't delve too much into the actual plot with you. I will say that putting this book down proved difficult with a fast-moving storyline that kept pulling me in. The structure that this book was written to is very good and it drip-feeds information to you. The story is told from the alternating viewpoints of Amy and Nick, meaning you often visit the same event from differing viewpoints. I'm particularly fond of this way of writing as I like seeing a different perspective to a scene.
This book really had me second-guessing myself from start to finish. Will she? Won't she? Did he? Didn't he? Who did? I absolutely love that.
While I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the writing and the structure, the one thing that didn't quite clinch it for me was how the story ended. Again, not wanting to give anything away here, I'll keep it vague. I didn't get the closure I thought I deserved after the mental torture I'd been through!
The film is definitley worth a watch too, though I would recommend reading the book first. The stories do differ slightly but that is always to be expected when books are translated to the big-screen.
One I've been recommending to people, and will continue to do so.
