Thursday 20 November 2014

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

I picked this up to blot out stressful thoughts one evening and it was the perfect book for the job - I came out the other end slightly dazed after just over 24hrs of compulsive reading.  As with most thrillers I found it a little distasteful in places - was there an element of misogynist fantasy about the whole setup? - but there were some genuinely shocking twists, some impressively flawed but strangely engaging characters, and I liked the way she played around with narrative voices.