Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I just finished reading this book, and I'm sorry to say that it left a bitter taste in my mouth. For those of you who don't know this book, it's about a wife who goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, and all clues point towards her husband having done it. The book alternates points of view between the husband and the wife, which also happen at different times (some happen in the past, while others are in the present day).

I think part of the reason I was unhappy who the book was because it had a very binary way of looking at marriage. Either marriage was the absolutely over-the-top romantic thing, or it was horrible, terrible, and both parties were unhappy. And that's very rarely what any relationship (and I'm guessing marriage, although I've

never been married before) is like. There are ups and there are downs, there is good and bad, but sometimes there is just neutral. Where things are neither good nor bad, but just are. Where people float along life, content. But there is none of that in this book, which was infuriating after a while.

Another thing - I found myself reading this book just to get done with it, not because I actually liked it. And that's never something you say about a good book. I think this was because I didn't actually like any of the characters. I initially liked the wife and hated the husband,but then about halfway through, I hated the wife and the husband, and that's how I felt when I finished. I didn't care about any of the characters, which means I didn't actually care about what happened to them in the book, so I was just reading the book to finish it.

And finally, the ending. It was the worst ending that could have been chosen. I understand that the number of options for endings for this book were probably limited, but Gillian, you picked the worst one. Honestly, after finishing the book, I kicked myself for having wasted that much time reading this book, because there was no way it could have been worse.

Apparently, this book is becoming a movie, and apparently they're changing the ending. Will I watch it? Absolutely not. I'm done wasting time on this author and this book.