From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe … incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight — the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way — even if it means murder.
A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.
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This book was Well that was crazy good. Joe, the personable psychopath. I must have a messed up sense of humor because that was entertaining.
Joe’s perspective is warped and flawed but insanely fascinating. He reasons himself into some crazy situations that are darkly, darkly funny. The topics themselves are disturbing and every character he …
I gave this book 5 STARS… I did this for many many reasons. First I want to start off telling you that this is one of those books that you will either not like or LOVE! I LOVED it. It isn’t your every day run-of-the-mill book. It’s a deep and twisted psychological driven book.
It’s twisted and fucked up! For some, it may be hard to follow. I …
Not going to lie I did think that Joe was going to do worse than what actually happened. Granted this isn’t for everyone. There are dark moments in the book, but I feel as if it wasn’t as dark as I saw several people make it out to be.
Or maybe I’m just heartless. More than likely it is me being heartless. Or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve read …
This was a difficult book for me to read. It’s unique in that, it is told from the view point of the “villain” of the story. To be honest, it was rather creepy for me being inside this particular character’s head.
In this story, you will see obsession and how it gets into the mind. You will see how a criminal rationalizes things inside his …