**Caution: Beware of hinted spoilers**

It’s hard to explain- this book was so good, because it was so bad.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn gave me something that I seemingly forgot about in a book. Recently, even with fictional books, I’ve been reading what I’d describe as straightforward. I missed those sudden twists and the feeling of real, rising action.

We meet Nick and Amy Dunne. We’re taken through the narrative of how they met, and how they came to be what they are now. And through these small tales, you get the feeling that you’re seeing a real and true relationship come together (cough). Really, you’re so convinced of this, you begin to take mental notes. It get’s you thinking of the future and what you could do to make something like a relationship, as perfect as possible.

For god’s sake, I even jot down “read Jane Austen” and “keep a decent pair of scissors” on my book mark.

But in a time of uncertainty, a ripple in the fabric of their relationship becomes clear. And that’s where the adrenaline comes in. This is also where the stuff I “seemingly forgot about in a book” also come in. Which is emotion. Real emotion that I feel towards a plot set out on pieces of paper.

These emotions mainly consisted of anger and frustration.

Yes, a lot of that. Though I would love to slap many of the characters in this novel, I would consider my time reading this well spent. I really was absorbed into the book, finishing it in three days, with very limited reading time in the first two. The novel has a book level of 5.6 and is worth 23 points.