Gone Girl #1

Gone Girl by:Gillian
 Flynn 
I just started reading this book and so far it is really good and interesting.If you haven't heard much about this book or the movie, it is a thriller mystery about a girl who goes missing and everyone I have asked that has read the book/seen the movie has given wonderful reviews on it and told me that there is a really surprising twist at the end of the book! 

I can relate this book to the book I just finished, The Cellar. This is because in both of these books someone goes missing whether it is a women who is married to a teenager still in high school. These books both have many similarities in writing style and plot, but they also have a lot of differences in the way that the authors share a similar story.

Some similarities are as a said someone goes missing in each story and the plot is focused around finding that missing character. Some differences I noticed was the perspective from which the story was told. In The Cellar the perspective switched from character to character throughout the chapters, but was mainly focused on the thoughts and actions of the girl, Summer, who got abducted. In Gone Girl so far the perspective is mainly focused around the thoughts and actions of the man/husband of the girl that went missing. This is important to the stories because it has different impacts on the readers. In The Cellar when the perspective switched around from character to character it gave you a sympathetic feel for all the people around Summer and the people trying to find her. In Gone Girl the focus on one character also allows you to see more in depth his perspective on what is happening in the book. Both of the authors were very strategic in there choices and the choices they made are what made the book outstanding, in my opinion.  

The Cellar

Summary: 

Summer is just a normal girl. She has a normal life. She has the perfect boyfriend and perfect family, well as close to perfect as a family can get. Until one day, she was at a club with her friends when she gets kidnapped. Summer ends up at a strange house in the cellar, hence the title of the book. She finds herself with 3 other girls and the man who kidnapped her. This man has OCD and everything has to be perfectly clean. Also makes the girls change there name and go by flower names. Poppy, Violet, Rose and Lily(Aka Summer). The spend there days catering to there kidnapper plotting there escape. To find out what happens read The Cellar. 

Rating: 

I rate this book a 8. I rated it this because it is very suspenseful and catches my attention early in the book and gets me hooked. Also the author incorporates great writing techniques such as; diction, syntax and figurative language. I didn't like the book because I thought the plot could have been developed better and I wanted the ending to be more creative. The book was just getting really predictable. 

Reviews: 

"The Cellar was an enthralling, quick read, but it didn’t feel completely polished in places, but the idea, and most of the execution was very well done"

"The Cellar was a perfect combination of enthralling, creepy, and just simply messed up.  I loved every moment of it – I was hooked in and couldn’t put it down"