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 is one of those books you just don’t want to put down. I took every chance that I could to read more and more of the book. The turn that the book takes was certainly unexpected. Seeing the world from Joe’s point of view was an interesting way to view it. This book shows how dangerous social media can really be as you never know who is …
I started watching the series while looking for a new bingeworthy show. I’m so happy I stopped watching the television and devoured the book first. Kepnes took me on a chilling journey where I sympathized with Joe, a very twisted man who obsesses with Beck, a woman who visits the bookstore he manages. The point of view was unique, the characters …
Everyone in this book was bat-shit crazy. I LOVED it!
There’s lot of insanity and a good amount of sexy times as well. I just could not pull away from this trainwreck of humanity.
*Thanks to my local library for providing the audiobook for free via Overdrive. Libraries rule!
Caught myself staring at an antique typewriter the other day, wondering what it’s name was. Haunting and twisted; afraid to read the next book because I am afraid it will not stand up to how great this one was…don’t see the series until you read the book!
4 out of 5 stars to You, the first of a two-book thriller and suspense series, written in 2014 by Caroline Kepnes. All I can start out with is wow – I loved it! I’ve tried to pull out all spoilers, but I do give a little bit of the high-level plot and antics away, as I think it will make you want to read it more.
Why This Book
My friend Medhat …
You is written from the antagonist’s perspective talking about the girl he is obsessed with. It is one of the most original psychological thrillers I’ve read, invasive and disturbing, deeply believable. Highly recommended.
This book is nothing short of wonderful! I have never read a book that made me fall completely in love with a villain. His intelligence allows him to take every situation or person down to their basic elements, except for the object of his obsession. He makes excuses for her the way we all do for others that we refuse to find fault.
He is …
I have mixed feeling about the book, and I am sure that this review will sound like I am downing the book, but I’m not. I recommend it. I just have some slight misgivings about the novel.
First off, the second-person writing was kind of distracting for me. Perhaps the author thought that it as more chilling to have Joe talk to the reader, as if …
This book completely roped me in from the first page. It’s about a guy named Joe who becomes completely obsessed with his love interests. He stalks them and everyone else in their lives until he knows everything about them. It was hard to put this one down. I highly recommend reading it before the show based on this book comes out.
Absolutely loved this book!! Really need to read Hidden bodies next!!
Joe runs a bookshop. Ostensibly he is the most geek person that can be. He didn’t attend university because he had to support himself, but the knowledge he acquired from books is enormous – more than any university graduate his age.
One day an attractive young girl enters the store and his life, and hers change from that moment.
Guinevere Beck is …
Loved the book and the TV Show/!
I went back and forth between loving this book and disliking it. It’s an interesting story for sure, but it’s not for everyone.
Read this after having watched the show on Netflix. The book, as expected, was better. A few differences from the show. Joe’s nature is better highlighted here. The book was easy to read but felt like it was lacking more detail that made you fill in the blank. For example, I would have preferred more detail into how Joe got hold of his victim’s …
I think the Netflix show did this book good. The book is more vulgar, still good. I like that this makes guys just as crazy as women, will some women. I know I’ve done this crazy overthinking of what does it means by a little small talk, or a hand graze. I never went as far as Joe but its good to see someone else’s crazy. If you liked the show …
Kind of creepy. A stalker novel but twisted so that you want to try and like the guy.
WOW. This story was really good! A psychological thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat, and made my emotions go all over the place. I never knew what Joe would pull next.
The author did an amazing job at letting the reader get inside Joe’s head and know what he was thinking, along with the how and the why and the self-justifications and …
such a fun book
This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. The perspective of the villain is fascinating and terrifying at the same time. It doesn’t let up which is heart-breaking in the end but major credit to Kepnes for writing it that way.
Prefacing my review by saying that I saw the show before I read the book. The show was better than the book, I’m sorry to say.
‘You’ is interesting in that it was written from the POV of a serial killer and in first and second person narration. A very intriguing concept. Until it became tiresome. The unreliable narrator is expected, but the …