Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn has managed to something quite impressive with this her third novel. Thrillers generally are the book equivalent of an action film; always enjoyable but without a great deal of substance. Flynn however has written a thriller with actual characters not the usual good guys, bad guys and red herrings. And she's written it well, the writing is absolutelyon par with that you'd normally find in literary fiction. The plot makes sense, the twists, the reveals they are all suprisingly believable. I can't really give a useful synopsis without giving something away, essentially Nicks wife Amy goes missing and its sort of about the hunt to find out what happened, that's the thriller bit but it has this whole other layer to it about relationships and marriage and love and hate and everything inbetween. The twist in it really is something and Amy's a character that will loiter with me for sometime, it's excellent, and I'm afraid I can't say much else except if you like thrillers read it, actually if you like reading anything read it, it's one of the most enjoyable books I've read this year.