Maybe I just wasn't in the right mindset for this one, but I really had a hard time getting into it. It sounded like your classic, creepy, dark, shocking murder mystery - something I would devour in a couple days. But some of the sinister stuff that was thrown in was just too much for me. It seemed like Flynn was going for "super-dark" and went a little too crazy with it, which made it really hard to connect with the story. I ended up skimming after the first 1/3 of the book because it was taking me way too long to finish what I thought would be a quick read, and I'm so glad I did. The ending seemed absurd and way too unbelievable. I liked the absurdity of Gone Girl's ending because it was clever and shocking. This ending was just too much. Too far-fetched, too unbelievably dark, and too incredibly coincidental.