I had listened to Sharp Objects on audio and really enjoyed it (although it was much darker that I expected). Everyone had been talking about Gone Girl and I was curious. I found out my local library would lend out books for 7 days to my kindle. It's a pretty tough task for me to read a book in 7 days and the waiting list for this book was pretty long. My first attempt I got about one third of the way though before my lending period expired, I then had to wait three weeks on the waiting list again. When I got it again I made sure to spend all my free time finishing it
First Lines:
"When I think of my wife, I always think of her head." (Flynn 3)
What is it about?
The story begins with Nick realizing his wife, Amy, is missing. A neighbor tips him off to the fact that the door has been left open for quite a while and he heads home from work to investigate. Coming home to what appears to be a crime scene the police are called in to this strange disappearance. The more and more we learn about Nick and Amy the weirder things get and more questions arise.
Why you should read it!
I will try really hard to not include any spoilers here but if you haven't read this book and don't want it ruined for you it might be a good idea to stop reading now. I really liked how uncertain things were the whole time in this book. The twists and turns kept coming but there weren't too many and they weren't too ridiculous that I wanted to stop reading. For the whole first half of the book I just knew there had to be more to the story and I real liked finally hearing both sides. Although as soon as I started feeling like I was identifying with one character they would do something to make me angry and I would feel sorry for their spouse. I know there has been a lot of talk about the ending and I hated it. I have no clue what I wanted but the ending left me feeling blah. With that being said I still loved the book, which I guess says a lot about the majority of the book and the writing since I despised the ending (seriously I was thinking that my kindle version got cut off a few chapters early). Luckily, this book wasn't as dark as Sharp Objects but there were still some very twisted parts, but again it wasn't overkill and I think almost anyone would enjoy this book!
Reviews from around the blogosphere:
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