Hey guys,
we need to talk about Gone Girl!
This will contain spoilers so look away now, until you've seen/read it!
This book gripped me right from the beginning. Haven't seen the film, it's on the to-do list. I swapped teams and bounced loyalties all over the show.
I began reading this book on bus to see my boyfriend Scott and I have to say, as the novel is so focused on a relationship and Nick, (the husband) is always asking, "what are you thinking, Amy (wife)?" I found myself thinking, well, "what are you thinking, Scott?" Him being the quieter of us, means there is some gaps in the conversation.
Freaked myself right out, don't think he's planning my murder though... Yet.
Dun dun dun.
Anyway, at the start I was convinced Nick had killed Amy and had cooked up this scheme that she had been kidnapped.
It's such a twisty novel, the thoughts Nick has does not do anything to help his case. He imagines Amy with her bed bashed in, is caught smiling quite a lot at her search party and is having an affair with one of his students (bad Nick)!!
The book is split into three different books, first book is Nick's perspective, the second Amy's and the third is a mix of both.
Nick's part is how he comes to realise that Amy is setting him up, she is alive and has found out that he's been having an affair and plots her revenge.
Amy is such an interesting character, from the first book you feel quite sorry for her, ignored wife forced to move from her home to help her husband's failing mother. But that's not who she is at all.
Amy is a sociopath. Fact. She chaps and changes her personality so much, you don't know who she is and I don't think she knows who she is. If I'm honest, I feel sorry for her. Her parents are children writers, they created a book series named 'Amazing Amy' and the real Amy could never live up to this image of perfection that they had created. Any wonder the girl turned out the way she did.
She is so intelligent, not only did she mange to make it look like her husband kidnapped her/killed her, she manages to convince her neighbours she pregnant, her husband is abusive, she even keeps a diary that makes it look like Nick is an awful husband and that he tried to poison her and mainly that she's this super nice, helpful woman who everyone loves.
When she's away or in hiding I should say, she contacts and old boyfriend who was obsessed with her and he keeps her under lock and key in his fancy mansion in the country. As a means to escape him and go back to Nick, she makes it look as if this man kept her tied up to the bed, beat and raped her.
To do this, she tied herself up for a couple of hours a day when he was at work, she cut and beat herself up and kept some of the blood, she convinced him to sleep with her so she had evidence of a 'rape', then she attacked him made it look like a fight, killed him and escaped back to Nick.
Sorry for the spoiler, but this had to be mentioned for the sheer genius of the character and the writer.
The ending of this novel is truly shocking in the most simplest form. Nick stays with her.
Nick. Stays. With. Her.
In full knowledge that she set him up, that she is a murderer, that she tricked him into staying with her, that she wrote a novel about her 'kidnapping experience' and that she is crazy. He stayed with her.
WTF!!!!
I've only mentioned a few things, but I could write an essay on this. I'm sorely tempted to.
This book is so interesting, it grips every aspect of your relationships and makes you really think about a question we've all asked our partners, "what are you thinking about?"
Question is; Are you ready to hear the answer?
Annie xx
we need to talk about Gone Girl!
This will contain spoilers so look away now, until you've seen/read it!
This book gripped me right from the beginning. Haven't seen the film, it's on the to-do list. I swapped teams and bounced loyalties all over the show.
I began reading this book on bus to see my boyfriend Scott and I have to say, as the novel is so focused on a relationship and Nick, (the husband) is always asking, "what are you thinking, Amy (wife)?" I found myself thinking, well, "what are you thinking, Scott?" Him being the quieter of us, means there is some gaps in the conversation.
Freaked myself right out, don't think he's planning my murder though... Yet.
Dun dun dun.
Anyway, at the start I was convinced Nick had killed Amy and had cooked up this scheme that she had been kidnapped.
It's such a twisty novel, the thoughts Nick has does not do anything to help his case. He imagines Amy with her bed bashed in, is caught smiling quite a lot at her search party and is having an affair with one of his students (bad Nick)!!
The book is split into three different books, first book is Nick's perspective, the second Amy's and the third is a mix of both.
Nick's part is how he comes to realise that Amy is setting him up, she is alive and has found out that he's been having an affair and plots her revenge.
Amy is such an interesting character, from the first book you feel quite sorry for her, ignored wife forced to move from her home to help her husband's failing mother. But that's not who she is at all.
Amy is a sociopath. Fact. She chaps and changes her personality so much, you don't know who she is and I don't think she knows who she is. If I'm honest, I feel sorry for her. Her parents are children writers, they created a book series named 'Amazing Amy' and the real Amy could never live up to this image of perfection that they had created. Any wonder the girl turned out the way she did.
She is so intelligent, not only did she mange to make it look like her husband kidnapped her/killed her, she manages to convince her neighbours she pregnant, her husband is abusive, she even keeps a diary that makes it look like Nick is an awful husband and that he tried to poison her and mainly that she's this super nice, helpful woman who everyone loves.
When she's away or in hiding I should say, she contacts and old boyfriend who was obsessed with her and he keeps her under lock and key in his fancy mansion in the country. As a means to escape him and go back to Nick, she makes it look as if this man kept her tied up to the bed, beat and raped her.
To do this, she tied herself up for a couple of hours a day when he was at work, she cut and beat herself up and kept some of the blood, she convinced him to sleep with her so she had evidence of a 'rape', then she attacked him made it look like a fight, killed him and escaped back to Nick.
Sorry for the spoiler, but this had to be mentioned for the sheer genius of the character and the writer.
The ending of this novel is truly shocking in the most simplest form. Nick stays with her.
Nick. Stays. With. Her.
In full knowledge that she set him up, that she is a murderer, that she tricked him into staying with her, that she wrote a novel about her 'kidnapping experience' and that she is crazy. He stayed with her.
WTF!!!!
I've only mentioned a few things, but I could write an essay on this. I'm sorely tempted to.
Question is; Are you ready to hear the answer?
Annie xx
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