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You by Caroline Kepnes

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luc3sca's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I CRIED finishing this book. Beck didn’t deserve any of this. Maybe she wasn’t the greatest person, but she was 24 and was murdered by a man she knew for ~8 months. You can really tell just how little women really mean to Joe. He may talk about Beck in a loving way (sometimes) but 99% of it is about her body or some fantastical idea he has of her. And Karen Minty! I enjoyed her part in the book a lot, there wasn’t much of her in the show and in the short time she appeared, I really loved her. Glad she escaped.
Joe is very good at making everyone seem terrible and worse than he is. While reading, I forget that he isn’t a reliable narrator. God, I HATED Peach in the book. Poor Beck, I feel like she just got extremely unlucky with the type of people she attracted.
This book made me hate Joe a lot more. He thinks he owns Beck, that he’s entitled to her, and when she fights back, he kills her. Then has the sheer audacity to mourn the fact that they’ll never have a life together? What the fuck. What irks me is that if Joe just asked her out normally like any other fucking person, they probably could’ve had a good relationship.
I also still don’t know what solipsistic means.

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danie_faye's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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zoeblair's review

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dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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fatimahfkhan's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

the way every sentence was addressed like he was talking to her was fucking sick i loved it it was so well written. its in second person like we’re in the head of this demented fucker its amazing
everyone in this book was a piece of shit. but everyone was so well written (minus peach she was a bit 1 dimensional but that may be on purpose idk) . everyone had such bad ISSUES like beck babes rlly needed therapy
this was a bit dragged out like i think a lot of parts could’ve been removed but pretty good. joes character was written so fucking good i was rooting for him and then complete 180 and i fucking hate him but love him?? she did an amazing amazing amazing job writing joe and becks arc.
this defo wasnt perfect but its nearly a 4 star its just 100 pages could've been reduced like there was a whole like 20% where joe and beck didn't interact it was like off idk but the writing was good and i loved the use of like popculture refs and flaws that many ppl have, like i can see parts of beck and benji in me, to show that this could very well become a real story, not just fiction.
+ not nice references abt taylor swift but im happy she was mentioned Lmao
ik a lot of ppl see the point of this is like oh social media bad! and shit but like idk i didn't see a way beck could've avoided joe's inevitable obsession. like obvs she posted everyt and that gave him a way to learn shit but like i feel like he wouldve found them out anyway
decent social commentary but if it was deeper, rating defo goes up
3.5 stars!!!
looking back id defo give it 4 i think abt this book alllll the time!

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booknerdcoco's review

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dark sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I struggled to really get into the story. Neither the MCs were likeable. Unfortunately I saw the Netflix series beforehand therefore there was no suspense for me.

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desert_side_notched's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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allbookedupwithrosie's review

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challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

The Netflix series absolutely captured my attention & love, which made me want to read the books for comparison.

I was very put off by the characters and crudeness of the book. It got to a point where I considered DNFing the book as I just could not believe what I was hering.

I love the idea of the plot and the character of Joe Goldberg, but I do not think this was the best way to execute the book.

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