Book Review: Gone Girl

As previously stated, my New Year's resolution was to be more intentional. I've realized that my personality also requires me to have goals. I wanted to be more intentional about reading, so I set a goal of 20 books this year. Here's the first one of the new year.

Gone Girl is another one of those books that will soon be turned into a movie. I'd heard a lot of hype about it, so I definitely wanted to read it. I had never read a mystery/thriller novel before, so I went into it with some trepidation.
Aside: I've always been a very...visual/emotional/empathetic person. I couldn't watch a movie in which someone died without crying. I couldn't watch anything remotely scary because my imagination would run wild and I'd be awake for multiple nights. So I knew that this might be a little trying/difficult/challenging for me.
Overall, I felt like it was a very well-written, well-thought out book. It's written in three parts. The first part tells the story from the husband's point of view after discovering his wife is missing. The second and third parts are written from a couple of different perspectives. Honestly, I felt like I'd been tricked a little bit. The first part was very interesting, and almost had you rooting for the husband AND the wife. There were some expletives, but not too many. The second part was a total turn around.The story was still interesting, but the language was almost unbearable. I almost stopped reading it because of all of the bad words. I mean, really, every bad or offensive word you can think of was in there...with a stronghold. If I didn't REALLY want to see whodunnit I would have stopped. Based on the storyline, I would recommend reading it. Based on the language, I would recommend staying far away. If you aren't easily offended by raunchy, foul words, proceed. If you are, I don't know that you would make it through part 2. I'd suggest reading a mystery/thriller book by a different author. I'm glad I finished it, and I'm still thinking over the ending, but I wasn't even tempted to read the "sneak peek" of the next book for fear I would have to immediately wash my ears out with soap.