Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn 2012

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
betrayal literary fiction loss

Our Take

Flynn makes both narrators unreliable and still you pick a side, which is the trap. Amy's revenge is baroque and delivered with a smile, and Nick is not innocent enough to be a victim. A marriage as cold war, and a thriller that interrogates the stories we tell to survive each other.

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