Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

You by Caroline Kepnes

230 reviews

dahliaeulalie's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, and Stalking

Minor: Blood and Eating disorder

heyitsseph's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The book is very similar to the tv show  but there are some differences. I like watching the tv show more than I like reading the bbut I don’t feel like it’s for me. I wouldn’t read the second book. You don’t have to pay attention the small ideas. You can experience it and actually see what happens instead picturing what’s happening in mind . There’s a lot spicy scenes in this book. Dan is a creepy, stalking character. He has obsession with a women he would not letting anyone get in the way to get close the women. It’s a psychological, narcissistic book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

shysbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Book Joe is much creepier and more deranged than series Joe. Book Joe is intense, I had to read it in sections and take breaks. But it was worth it. At the end, I ended up disliking everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

mithridatic's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Murder, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

urfriendash's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

CHILLING........

so i bought this because i loved the show, and everyone told me 'joe is so much darker in the book!' and i was like okay ill bite

i don't think joe is like super darker in this, but because we are limited to his inner dialogue in the show, we miss out on some of the crazy creepy stuff he thinks about. plus, the show made a lot of changes to the plot. like the paco plot doesn't exist in the books, and yk in the show ur like 'oh he a terrible guy but at least he's helping paco' well you cant say that in the book..

this book was actually scary, not cuz of some monster or vampire yk but because this could happen to anyone irl! plenty of people don't figure out their being stalked for years.. joes narrating was so crazy to me, like people actually think this shit. he's super perverted and he's great at gaslighting and manipulating!

anyway super good book, very disturbing, anddddd id say 13+. if your mature. there's a bunch of perverted stuff and sex scenes, as well as detailing of murder and stalking (obviously)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Toxic friendship, Torture, Physical abuse, Stalking, Medical content, and Gaslighting

lots of perverted content

s1ck4n's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Misogyny, Stalking, and Sexism

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Violence and Murder

zarakoconnor's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Loved how scary Joe is written, truly explores obsession and stalking and the mind of a man that wants to destroy a woman, whether intentional or not. The book is absolutely better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Gaslighting, Murder, Cursing, Infidelity, and Sexual content

danie_faye's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Stalking

Minor: Violence and Murder

zoeblair's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, and Murder