OK, so I'm reading Gone Girl, thinking "This is an OK story about a guy dealing with and trying to solve his wife's disappearance on their fifth anniversary." It's interesting, how Flynn alternates chapters between the husband Nick's post-disappearance point of view and wife Amy's pre-disappearance diary entries. Nice view of a crumbling marriage, and interesting to think about how the marriage went from the halcyon early days to the monotonous. Not bad, but nothing to write home about.
Then POW! About a third of the way through the book, Flynn whips us around a left-turn so sharp that I've still got whiplash a week later. Totally did not see that coming. I don't want to give anything away, but Flynn is as manipulative in her writing as her characters are to one another. I shouldn't like being manipulated like that, but I do. Awesome book. I'll be interested to hear what the book group thinks of it.
I have no problem agreeing with your assessment of "awesome".
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