{"id":16867,"date":"2012-08-20T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2012-08-14T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T22:37:12","slug":"gone-girl-by-gillian-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/gone-girl-by-gillian-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m going to tread very lightly with this review, because to spoil any plot point of Gillian Flynn’s masterful suspense novel Gone Girl<\/strong><\/em><\/a> would be a crime against anyone planning to read it.\u00a0 Nick and Amy Dunne were once young and in love.\u00a0 But now, on the fifth anniversary of their wedding, their relationship is crumbling and neither spouse seems happy.\u00a0 It is on this day that Nick receives a phone call from a concerned neighbor:\u00a0 the Dunne’s front door is wide open, the living room is trashed, and\u00a0Nick’s wife nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Anyone interested in the true crime genre could tell you that the husband is always the first suspect, but did Nick really do it?\u00a0 Told in alternating chapters of Nick’s perspective when Amy goes missing and Amy’s diary entries chronicling their relationship, the novel plays with the narrators’ unreliability to keep the reader guessing every step of the way.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard a ton of buzz about this book all summer and trust me, it is all well-deserved.\u00a0 The fast pacing and many twists and turns make this book painful to put down, even for just a minute.\u00a0 This is no average whodunit; in addition to being a captivating mystery\/thriller, this is also an intriguing character study about what happens when relationships go wrong and when your spouse isn’t quite what they seem to be at the beginning of the relationship.\u00a0 I finished this book three days ago after reading it in two sittings, and I still can’t stop thinking about it.\u00a0 I highly recommend Gone Girl<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>to anyone looking for a unique mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to tread very lightly with this review, because to spoil any plot point of Gillian Flynn’s masterful suspense novel Gone Girl would be a crime against anyone planning to read it.\u00a0 Nick and Amy Dunne were once young and in love.\u00a0 But now, on the fifth anniversary of[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[333,331],"class_list":["post-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-mystery","tag-suspense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4o3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}