A review by m0rdred_the_fallen
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
If the ever author ever makes a sequel, I sincerely hope it's about burn them alive and recorded their dying screams of agony for a ringtone, because both Nick and Amy deserved a painful death, but Amy primarily.
Not gonna lie, had me fool for the first third of the book, I felt truly sorry for both of them I mean talk about tragic. But then the second third began and I understood that they truly deserve each other because of how they each feed the other worst side;
Go was always the voice of reason and Nick should have be fully honest from the start with her and heed her advice.
Also good ridance to the Elliots, those two should've never been parents and their seven unborn daughters dodged quite the bullet of having such passive-agressive a**hole of parents who wanted a robot, not a child. The irony of them being child psychologists who wrote those awful Amazing Amy books which I bet my life did more harm than they ever did good to a whole generation.
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their sonNot gonna lie,
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Nick is codependent child with daddy issues and Amy is a narcisist with mommy issues that still has beef with a fictional alterego and her seven unborn older sisters. Honestly, neither of them is fit to be a parent.Go was always the voice of reason and Nick should have be fully honest from the start with her and heed her advice.
Also good ridance to the Elliots, those two should've never been parents and their seven unborn daughters dodged quite the bullet of having such passive-agressive a**hole of parents who wanted a robot, not a child. The irony of them being child psychologists who wrote those awful Amazing Amy books which I bet my life did more harm than they ever did good to a whole generation.
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This is also the only point I concede to Amy, her parents not only built an empire on her back, but also inmortalized every little dissapointment and failure so that she could never forget them.Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Self harm
Moderate: Violence, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Vomit, Mental illness, Sexual content, Dementia, Injury/injury detail, and Physical abuse
Minor: Child death, Incest, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship