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You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

25 reviews

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What a sick and twisted book😱 The narration was chef’s kiss, god, so funny💕 Even if he didn’t kill anyone in this book, his demented mind wanted to do something wrong. Oh god, Nomi, I know you’re a victim, but her “confrontation” with Joe at the latter part of the story made me uncomfortable. 😔 Mary Kaye, you seemed fun and daring. Even if the whole town judged you hard, you rose and tried to be happy again. The story is, as always, so problematic; the Love scenes, goodness gracious. The writing style was so gripping and exciting. And oh my god, the narrator in the audiobook companion was top notch💕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Confinement, Blood, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, and Toxic friendship

theimposter's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Cancer, Misogyny, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Abortion

sadgirlsidney's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.75

Is this the least cringe Joe Goldberg has ever been? Maybe it only seems that way because he's not saying pussy in every other sentence during his monologues anymore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence and Addiction

Minor: Antisemitism and Gun violence

matcha_pages's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Gun violence

dobbywobby's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

NO spoilers: I felt like this novel was all over the place and it made it difficult to stay interested in the story. It is different than the 3rd season of the show though, which I appreciated. But Love’s character was mostly uninvolved in this book besides one occasion and even that was underwhelming compared to the show. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Stalking

kaylasbookgram's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is the third book of the YOU series. Although I didn’t love it as much as I did the first two I still enjoyed it and the twists at the end. Joe Goldberg came back soft he is not the murderous man it was in the first two he got out of jail and took a new outlook on his life. I’m upset since I’ve been told this book doesn’t match up much to the newest season on Netflix which I knew from the beginning because the trailers all showed Love and Love wasn’t in the book until the very end which kind of made it a slight disappointment for me but that’s my fault for seeing the Netflix trailers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Addiction, and Animal death

kalzu's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, and Stalking

Minor: Gun violence and Pedophilia

chxska's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

3.75

Caroline Kepnes knows how to do a good plot twist. I’m surprised I followed Joe to the third book and I always think I’m not going to want the next book but the last chapters are always SO entertaining.

man mk’s whole family is just so messed up but NOMI AT THE END oh my god crazy. She’s the first character in this whole series that I would be okay with having a spinoff book. also the Johnny Bates show Oliver writes LMAOOOOO i see u caroline kepnes.

I’m already in so deep so I’m definitely going to pick up the next book. I Hate to Love Joe <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Antisemitism

binreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This one I felt was much different from the other You books in the fact that I was rooting for Joe to be actually be better. Even though, anyone who has read the book or watched the show knows he should not be redeemed. But I think that’s why I love these books so much. We know he’s a psychopath stalker turn serial killer and yet, since we read it from his point of view and in his head, sometimes it feels justified. Only slightly lol. Then you remember from the other characters point of view and you’re like oh yeah he’s in the wrong

example: all the people he runs into. It’s like I agree with Joe, everyone else is horrible. Melanda, Phil, Ivan, Shortus etc. They all has their flaws. And yet, Joe is possibly (except Shortus, which btw was a crazy twist. And he deserved what he got) the worst of them all and we forget that. Because we are in his mind, and in his mind he’s right. He’s the savior. And it’s crazy he didn’t even kill anyone in this book!! And yet, indirectly he killed them all. Insane.

I really liked this one. And I’m so excited for the next one. The only problem I had was the beginning was very slow paced to me. Took me forever to finally get through it and get intrigued enough to keep reading but it was worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Suicide, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, and Drug use

everyotherpageorso's review against another edition

dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Kepnes put the reader right into the thick of Joe’s obsession from page one. With that being said, I feel like this loses a lot of the suspense present in her other novels, and makes it clash tonally with the other books in the series, as well as one major difference in characterization. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Infidelity