Gone Girl

I haven't been as engaged with a thriller book like this in a long while. I was listening to this via audiobook as I drove for half a day to go on vacation, and then when I arrived I kept sneaking in time to listen to more because I wanted to see what would happen next. The format of bouncing between the husband's perspective and missing wife's journals probably isn't really a new idea, but works well here to build tension and keep the reader guessing. These characters are really interestingly drawn as well, early on I thought some of the writing was a bit pretentious or eye-rolly, but quickly realized that was intentional characterization.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but unfortunately I kind of suspected some plot points just based on little comments or whatever that I have read about the movie unintentionally, I wish I had zero knowledge going into this, but it was still fun to second guess myself a bit and try to figure out how things would get to where I thought they were going.