Thoughts on Gone Girl

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn was supposed to be one of the best books I've ever read. I've heard so much about it and by the time I got it in my hands I was dying to read it! Every review I read was positive things and statements like "this was one of the best novels of the year" and "I was literally blown away by it!". This novel was set up for success in every way, but it just didn't live up to it. As I stated last week, I didn't care for the beginning. It was slow and I didn't care for the characters at all. The plot twists brought back my excitement. I thought to myself "this is when it gets good!", but after the first 50 pages of shock, I was bored again. There was enough suspense to keep me reading, but not enough to make me love it. I felt like the author came up with this really amazing twist and thought it out through every detail and then wrote the rest of the book in a short sitting. The ending seemed unfinished and I was simply unsatisfied. It felt extremely rushed and left me confused. There were lots of random events that led nowhere. This was an okay book, but definitely not the "life-changing bestseller" it was set up to be. I wouldn't really recommend this book unless you had nothing else to read. I have a bookshelf full of much more exciting, suspenseful and well thought out books.