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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
4.0

I really, really liked this book. I've never really read any mystery/thriller books so the suspense was all new to me, and it was nice to not know what the hell was going to happen (does that make me stupid? I don't know, but I enjoyed the ride anyway).

It was very weird to read it as a first person narrative. I rooted for Amy and hated Nick for so long that when it flipped and it became obvious that it was Amy we were now supposed to hate I struggled and ended up still rooting for her, but feeling very strange about it.

This would've been a five star book for me, but the ending let it down. I suppose that's more my fault than the author's fault, in that I wanted an amazing ending for Amazing Amy (though I don't know what that ending would've been). I wonder if there'll be a sequel. I sort of hope so, because I so want to know what happens next, but then I don't want to be disappointed.

I really liked Flynn's writing and I'll be checking out some of her other work - I found that I wanted to read much much quicker than I did because I wanted to know what happened next so badly. And at one point I couldn't take the suspense and I crushed a can I was holding - i'm not sure if thrillers are good for me to read...