The book is split into 3 parts; Part one 'Boy loses Girl', Part two 'Boy meets Girl' and Part three 'Boy gets Girl back (or vice versa)'. What really interested me about the name or the book and the names of the three parts was that Nick Dunne and Amy Elliot Dunne are referred to as 'Boy' and 'Girl', I love how irony is used to really help draw the reader in, because these two characters are in their 30s but naming them boy and girl just shows how their immaturity throughout life has lead to this day...'The Day Of'.
From the opening lines of Gone Girl I was instantly drawn in, "When I think of my wife, I think of her head." I find it fascinating how an author can pull you into their book just from the first line of their book, from that moment on I really couldn't put it down.
Just from reading the blurb I had already made assumptions of what was going to happen.."Nick has killed Amy but makes it look like she killed herself"...a couple of chapters in it changed to "Amy killed herself and has framed Nick but really Nick didn't do it, it was her old friend from school". Both times I was wrong, that's what I loved about this book, I was always proven wrong, it made me keep reading it because every chapter something new was revealed and there was another change in direction. The book opens from Nicks point of view and then alternates between him speaking in the present time and Amy's diary entry's from when they first started dating 'till present day.
The book is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone who loves a gripping read. Something that I love but also hate, is the ending. The ending leaves you begging for an epilogue, asking for questions and leaves you with that feeling of "should I read it again?!".
Love is portrayed throughout Gone Girl and there are many types. The love of parents and children between Amy and her parents and Nick and his mother, sibling love between Margo and Nick "I will love you even if you..", sexual love between Amy and Nick and Desi and Amy and love between friends with Noelle and Amy. As you get to the end of this book you realise that most of this love is fake but never the less it exists throughout.
Quotes:
* “Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
* “There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
* “Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”
* “Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.”
*“I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge? I am supposed to love Nick despite all his shortcomings. And Nick is supposed to love me despite my quirks. But clearly, neither of us does. It makes me think that everyone is very wrong, that love should have many conditions. Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times.”
