Gone Girl

[QuinSnydersHair]

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The problem I have with the ending isn't so much the logic of it all. Yeah she thought of everything, I got that. But I felt the book needed another "twist" if you'd like. Something we didn't see coming. Something that's been there all along but we haven't yet noticed. The twist half way through the book like you mentioned was GREAT. It did hit me like a ton of brick too. But after that I just felt like the writer kept building it, building it, building it, to a magnificent ending - but there was nothing. It was a bit of a let down.

I felt it needed another twist. I think most people reading it kept waiting for that one-final-twist, but there was nothing.

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Like I said, I'm not sure there could be a twist...other than he plays her game by "loving" her again for months...maybe even a year or two to fully win her trust back...and then somehow, screwing her over.

But like I said, I overanalyze everything and upon reading, saw no gaps for Nick to work with.

That said, and this is gonna sound ridiculous, but my criticism with the end I suppose was tone. I didn't feel the defeat in Nick. The terror too yes, knowing he was stuck with her for life. But the sobering and depressing sense of defeat that comes with that didn't come through enough for me and I think that should've been the tone. As if he was the insect on her complex web, knowing he's trapped and there's no getting out.

 

[The Midnight]

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Like I said, I'm not sure there could be a twist...other than he plays her game by "loving" her again for months...maybe even a year or two to fully win her trust back...and then somehow, screwing her over.

But like I said, I overanalyze everything and upon reading, saw no gaps for Nick to work with.

That said, and this is gonna sound ridiculous, but my criticism with the end I suppose was tone. I didn't feel the defeat in Nick. The terror too yes, knowing he was stuck with her for life. But the sobering and depressing sense of defeat that comes with that didn't come through enough for me and I think that should've been the tone. As if he was the insect on her complex web, knowing he's trapped and there's no getting out.

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On top of that I felt like the ending was a bit rushed. May be Flynn had her editor breathing down her neck to end it. I dunno. The set up of the book was so great I just wanted it to go on, and on, and on. The search. The trial. All of it. Amy's sudden impulse to want to go back to Nick was also out of character. For someone who wanted to kill her husband, who is patient enough to plan for 1 whole year, she sure was quick to rush back to Nick. That's when I started not buying it. It didn't seem real. It didn't make sense. All of the ending chapters. I don't buy it at all.