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Gone Girl has lived up to the hype that's been going on around it.

I've been putting off writing this review for a few weeks now. So much of the story is a spoiler, almost everything that I could talk about in this book would ruin something, and I think books should be enjoyed being unfolded at the pace the author has created and not be ruined by book reviewers who feel obligated to give book reports.

I'm just not sure what to really say about the book except that it is really good, that it is a lot of fun, that it is nice and dark and a mindfuck.

It is like a Kjaerstad-lite (only in that the scope is smaller and it's not roughly 1500 pages long to get to the end of the mystery), sans the magical penis.

A guy goes out on the morning of his wedding anniversary and he gets a call from a neighbor that his front door is wide open and his cat is wandering around on the stoop. He comes home to find signs of a struggle and his wife gone. The novel starts with the story being told in two voices, the husband's from the morning when he finds his wife gone and the resulting police investigation; and in alternating chapters from the wife's diary that starts when she and he met.

The pacing of the book is great, the relatively slow-reveal of the plot was right-on. Don't read this spoiler if you haven't read the book. Seriously. (view spoiler)[I didn't think of this at the time, but Karen asked me a question about the vomit the other day, and I started to think about it, and it's pretty much a moot point since he found it and got rid of it and their weird fucked up relationship would go on anyway as the book ends, but couldn't police have noticed the difference between fresh vomit and frozen vomit? Would it seem really weird that someone would save their own vomit and freeze it as evidence for the future? And about the ending, it is more than a little bizarre and I'd be curious to know how these two get on living with each other in a strained détente of suspicion and hatred, I don't think it would be worth a whole other book, but I'd be curious to see short story letting us see how Nick and Amy are getting on a few years down the road, maybe they can be a side story in a future novel? People love when there are call backs to earlier books in other books, right? (hide spoiler)]

I don't know what to write. You know you want to give this a shot if you haven't because it's one of those books that everyone seems to be reading or you don't because you don't want to read the books that everyone seems to be reading, but this one is worth the hype surrounding it. It's not great literature but it is a great story with some very memorable characters.