Abandon all hope (of suspense)

Gone Girl
von Gillian Flynn

Bewertet mit 2 Sternen

Read this book, it's that good, they say. The addictive No. 1 bestseller, they say. The book you'll be others to read, they say. The boring thing I say. And thank's god it's over, I say. And now I'll tell you what I think about the story.

There are Amy and Nick, wife and husband. And their fifth year anniversary. The day Amy disappears without a trace. Only a few days after that the whole world is convinced of the fact that Nick killed his wife. Why? Because he is a (original quote): cheating, cowardly, selfish shit. I couldn't stand his whiny-tiny storytelling, his dumb attitude, his nonexistent backbone. He deserved everything and more he got and above all he deserved Amy, who is a bitch extraordinaire though this woman is clever and has a backbone. What happened with these two people is such a lot of far-fetched idiocy and puffed-out boredom I had to fight to keep reading. I'm a fast reader, usually, but here I was at a loss: How to stay awake with all this glibberish.

So I appreciate the idea (not bad at all), but the implementation was not my cup of tea, something you think is the work of a schoolgirl not a bestseller author.