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Sunday 31 August 2014

GILLIAN FLYNN – GONE GIRL



review by show host august 2014
I WAS ON THE VERGE OF GIVING UP ON THIS BUT I HADN’T GOT TO PAGE 100 WHICH IS MY CUT OFF POINT FOR A BOOK THAT HASN’T GRABBED ME.  I AM GLAD I DIDN’T GIVE UP BECAUSE THEN IT GOT INTERESTING BY PAGE 50.
THE STORY IS TOLD FROM NICKS POINT OF VIEW IN THE PRESENT DAY THEN AMY’S WHICH STARTS FIVE YEARS AGO AND SO THE STORY CONTINUES UNTIL THEY MEET UP TIME WISE.
TODAY IS THEIR 5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.  THEY WERE LIVING IN NEW YORK BUT AFTER THEY BOTH LOST THEIR JOBS THEY HAD TO MOVE TO SOMEWHERE THEY COULD AFFORD SO THEY MOVED TO MISSOURI WHERE NICKS AILING MOTHER LIVED & WHERE HE WAS RAISED.  AMY DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE NEW YORK.  NICK BOUGHT A BAR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HIS SISTER GO, USING HIS WIFES TRUST FUND MONEY.  AMY WAS FROM WEALTHY PARENTS.  THE WEALTH AND FAME HAD COME FROM A BOOK THEY WROTE BASED ON AMY HERSELF– AMAZING AMY.  
ON THE DAY OF THEIR 5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, NICK RETURNS HOME FROM WORKING IN THE BAR AND FINDS SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE IN HIS HOME AND HIS WIFE GONE.  AMY HAS ALWAYS PLAYED A GAME ON THEIR ANNIVERSERIES – A TREASURE HUNT.  NICK HAS TO SOLVE THE CLUES TO GET HIS PRESENT.  THIS YEAR WAS NO DIFFERENT.  THE CLUES WERE THERE NICK JUST HAD TO SOLVE THE HUNT INCASE THERE WAS A CLUE WHICH WOULD LEAD TO HIS WIFES DISAPPEARANCE.
THE POLICE BEGIN TO SUSPECT NICK, ESPECIALLY AS FORENSICS FOUND TRACES OF HER BLOOD IN THE KITCHEN AND OTHER INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE, LIKE HER PURSE FOUND IN A PLACE WHERE NICK WENT (TO SOLVE THE ANNIVERSARY CLUES), AMY ASKING ABOUT BUYING A GUN, FRIENDS OF AMYS HE NEVER KNEW SHE HAD AND AMY BEING PREGNANT, ANOTHER FACT PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN TO HIM.  AND THE MOST INCRIMINATING OF ALL HER DIARY.
SO WHAT HAPPEND TO AMY, WHERE IS SHE, IF SHE’S DEAD WHO KILLED HER?
IT’S A VERY CLEVER BOOKS AND TO REVEAL MORE COULD GIVE SPOILERS.  I AM SO GLAD I DIDN’T GIVE UP ON IT ALTHOUGH IN PLACES YOU COULD SKIP A PARAGRAPH AND NOT LOSE THE THREAD!

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