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Dec 20, 2018 Raimey Gallant rated it really liked it · review of another edition

All of the following statements are true:
1. I don't like any character in this book.
2. This book is very entertaining.
3. I've hit my annual ceiling for chauvinistic protagonists.
4. I would read Kepnes again. ...more

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Apr 03, 2019 Southern Today Gone Tomorrow rated it liked it

Written by Caroline Kepnes, this novel follows Joe, a bookstore manager who meets a girl whom he thinks is perfect, and then proceeds to stalk her and work his way into her world to be her boyfriend, only to have everything fall apart.

The key word here is stalking. Stalking. This is not a novel for young kids (the language is crass, though it is that way to try and convey this guy and his thoughts), and honestly rather terrifying.

Beck, our love interest, is not a good girl. Okay? She isn’t. I d ...more

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Oct 14, 2016 Jennifer Ricketts (Donnie Darko Girl) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I'm going through a thriller phase right now. Over the last couple of months, I've read four or five of them and have enjoyed them all. After reading a review for Behind Closed Doors, I happened to see a comment on the review recommending this series, and that's all it took. I was sold.

You was edgy, scary and fun. I love unreliable narrators, and it was pretty clear from the beginning I couldn't trust Joe's version of events. He's a stalker, for one, and two, he has a distorted view of what a re ...more

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Jul 13, 2018 Shannon Lawrence rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Compelling story that draws the reader in. I was wary due to the second person, but it worked well here. Much like Gillian Flynn's works, there aren't many characters to like in this book. Joe, the narrator, is a psycho, but apparently quite charming. Sometimes he's so charming that I forget he's the bad guy. Then again, that's because the other characters were so awful that I didn't care what happened to them, and was maybe a little pleased when things didn't go well for them. Gripping, disturb ...more

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