Thereadingknight

I came across Gone Girl when I was scrolling Amazon for psychological thrillers, I wanted to order "The silent patient" but then i stumbled upon this book and its skyrocketing reviews, so i ordered the book to see what's so special about it. Book, on the top if it talks about the troubled marriage of Nick and Amy Dunne, who are both writers by profession, recently shifted to North Carthage from Brooklyn, New York to take care of Nick's leukemic Mother and to avoid consequences of being jobless due to the 2008 economic recession. Flynn tried to provide an extremely clichéd melodramatic narrative in the first part of the book where Nick is an abusing husband who's draining her sensitive, but rich wife mentally and financially to secure his own needs and Amy is so terrorized by him that she considering Nick a potential threat to her life. On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary Amy disappears without leaving a trace .Initially the local police is sympatheti