Many of you know my friend, Jay Sones. He is from Jackson but now lives in New York City and works for Random House. We were talking around the first of year while he was home visiting and he told me about Gillian Flynn’s new book, Gone Girl. His exact words were “You have to read this book!” my answer “Oh yeah, Gillian Flynn. I have read her other two. Sure, I’ll take a look at it.” A few weeks go by…I receive a message on my Facebook timeline from Jay: “Have you read it yet?” I message back and let him know that I will read it but closer to the pub date. As the months go by various messages on Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads start appearing from Jay all asking if I have read Gone Girl yet. I am beginning to realize that Jay is cyber stalking me! Luckily, I have known him for years and didn’t feel threatened but it was apparent that if I didn’t read this book soon he might just disown me as a friend!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is going to be one of my hottest thrillers of the summer! I will be hand selling this book to every customer that walks through the doors of Lemuria Bookstore. Not only will I be selling it but Kelly, Emily, Pat, Joe and Anna will also be on top of it. The ARC is steadily moving it’s way around the store.
I can tell you only a small part of the what this book is about. The less you know the better the book is because every page that you turn lets you know a little more about the characters but you will continue to think: “What in the hell is going on?” Amy and Nick are married and living in New York but they have both recently lost their jobs working for magazines. After realizing that nothing is coming their way anytime soon, they move to Nick’s hometown near Hannibal, Missourri, to be near his ailing parents. Nick and his sister, Margo, decide to buy a bar together but Amy is still unemployed. On the afternoon of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing. The house looks like there was quite a struggle so the police are treating this as a kidnapping and Nick is the prime “person of interest”.
Gillian Flynn does a brilliant job in laying out this tale for the reader. As the story goes on we hear from Nick during ‘real time’ of the investigation but also from Amy in the form of her journal entries that date back to the day that Nick and Amy met. It all seems very clear and just as you begin to wonder if he is going to get away with it . . . KABOOM! That is all I can say because this one is so twisty and turny I’m not even sure how I could do Gone Girl justice.
I want to thank Toni Hetzel for putting this book in my hands and then Jay Sones for staying on me until I read it! Random House I hope you know how lucky you are to have them on your team! (Liz Sullivan is pretty dang good, too!)
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