Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: Audiobook Review
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – An Audio Book Review
- Title: Gone Girl
- Author: Gillian Flynn
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 19 hours and 11 minutes
- Unabridged
- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Audio book Summary:
New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn has created one of the darkest and chilling thrillers in a long time. Gone Girls tells the story of married couple Nick and Amy Dunne who celebrates their fifth wedding anniversary in their rented McMansion along the Mississippi River. Things go terribly awry when Amy disappears unexpectedly with no trace whatsoever. Distraught, Nick desperately searches for his wife but when he finds a diary that shows a different side of her it appears that there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye. With continuing pressure from the media and public, Nick tries to prove his innocence but is he implicating himself more with his erratic actions? Gillian Flynn has propelled herself into the upper echelons of mystery writers with this psychological chess game of a novel.
One reason to listen:
Gone Girl offers an extremely personal and dramatic twist in the mystery genre that is not something easily found.
Reactions:
“This is a thriller with rich, flawed, complex characters and a surrounding mythology keeping you thinking and trying to figure out references long after you press pause. Believe the hype and enjoy.” – FanB14
“Gillian Flynn is known for her ability to craft wonderfully contaminated and unlikeable characters, dark–very dark smart plots, and combine them with enough familiarity that the reader becomes totally engaged, and almost feels compelled to turn the page.” – Melinda
“Readers are torn by the dubious Nick–can we trust anything he says? And we are treated to a conversation depiction of a strained marriage. There was a lot of hype behind this book, so I did purchase the day it came out. I wasn’t disappointed. I spent every waking hour listening to this one–so beware. I truly enjoyed this one. Kirby who reads Nick is decent, but Julia who reads Amy is awesome. She is perfect.” – Amazon Customer
“Both narrators picked the perfect tone for this reading. It’s a great listen, and I did not want it to end. And actually – in a way, it doesn’t. The two main characters are caught in a trap of their own making.” – Glamazon
“This isn’t a book for those lucky, cheerful, hopeful optimists who live by Facebook posts on the power of love. It’s not a book for horror fans that safely relegate terror to demons summoned by a ‘Book of the Dead’, a la “Evil Dead” 2013. This book is for those who know that real people can be terrifying, and can do utterly horrible things. Those people are the people of Simon Baron-Cohen’s ‘The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty‘ ” – Cynthia
“I really didn’t care much about what happened because I disliked the characters so much, and the best I can say is that the pathological protagonist was inventive and intelligent in creating cruel situations. I don’t mean cruel in the physical sense (no scenes of torture, or anything), but in the emotional and psychological sense.” – Calliope
Score on Audible: 4.3 out of 5
Score on Amazon: 4.5 out of 5
