I always wonder after reading a book like this, where the author draws her material from. This is the second title I’ve read of Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects), and both books are full of dark, greatly flawed, and unique characters set upon paths of total self-destruction. I love them.
“Gone Girl” takes the old cliché that “you never really know a person” and gives it steroids. She introduces us to Nick and Amy Dunne, the typical husband and wife with the same husband and wife complaints that inhabit every marriage. Flynn lolls you into their everyday lives, and then BAM! Nick and Amy’s world is turned upside down and you’re left wondering if you’ve picked up a different book.
Flynn’s writing is pure. She finds no need for extra prose, or contrived dialogue, even when she is dealing with complex characters and plots. Flynn sugar-coats nothing, yet we don’t seem to mind because everything she gives us seems so real.
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