Holy Plot Twist Batman

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person. Just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.” Truth.

35.12 Gone Girl

Three part book gets a three part review.

Part 1:

This is why I read. To find out that the me I am inside my head isn’t the only one feeling crazy. Isn’t the only one feeling in the wrong all the time. Desperate for someone to love her in all the ways it has been described to her all her life in books and movies, even if she knows she doesn’t always act in a way to deserve it.

My god, I am so Amy. The first years of my marriage I hated the changes in me that I could attribute to becoming more “wife” like, and after becoming a stay at home mom, lordy... I absolutely want to be the Cool Girl and I still hate when I feel the guilt of not being her. When I am angry about stupid things. When I self create resentments and stew about them even when I truly try to stop myself. Honestly, I identified so much with Amy that the book got scary and uncomfortable to read. Thank god I didn’t marry Nick.

Part 2:

B.A.N.A.N.A.S!!!

I mean, I can’t even...

My jaw is still on the floor. I kept looking around the room for someone to verify that this was really happening. I even had to walk away for a moment. Total Jedi mind-fuck.

Part 3:

Fucking hell.  I am certainly NOT Amy, and again I thank god I didn’t marry Nick.  

This a thriller about a marriage seen from both the husband and wife’s POV after the wife has gone missing.  We see him reacting to the disappearance and we read her diary of the time leading up.  It is fast paced, meticulously plotted, and, again, absolutely jaw dropping.  I don’t want to say more because to ruin it for anyone would be such a disservice.  If you want a mindless escape of a summer read then this isn’t it; but if you want a completely unexpected, and sometimes hard to read, look at how dark people can be then this is a winner. Just know that whatever you are expecting isn’t what is going to happen, I promise you that.