Can't say that I have ever felt like doing anything along the lines of this book to anyone (male or female)jhollan2 wrote:I agree, Fran. Flynn did such an amazing job with the first half of the book, then it was like Amy kind of unraveled. She was this strong, kind of awesome, spiteful sociopath. Lets face it... who hasn't fantasized about doing something drastic and awful to a guy who broke their heart? Maybe not quite this extreme, but I think the impulse is universal, which is why it resonated with so many readers. By the end, though, she is so clingy and weirdly emotional that I found I hated her even more for going back to him and trying to make things work than I did when she was being a psychopath. She didn't seem as clever somehow, like she had lost her edge and the plot and didn't know what she wanted so she just did what she had done before the whole thing started.Fran wrote:Did you get the feeling that she didn't quite know how to finish off the book? To me it felt like she rushed just to wrap it all up anyoldhow and all the deviousness and manipulation she had woven into the characters in the first half of the book. Or maybe, like me, she just got sick of Nick and Amy & wanted rid of them.
But I agree Amy did seem to become some kind of wishey-washey cypher of the character she was in the first part of the book. It struck me that Amy and Nick needed each other - despite the disguises they are both weak, shallow and lacking in confidence & were only capeable of living through conflict.