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Te

Caroline Kepnes

3.82 AVERAGE

littleneptune's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I read this book a few years ago (I’m guessing about 3 years ago I think) and I remembered it as being very creepy and entertaining. This has not changed. It was still as entertaining this time around and I loved it as much, if not more, than the last time.

The cognitive dissonance between Joe’s perception of himself and others versus his actions is so strong and interesting. This man will full on call others weirdos and creeps while he

stalks Beck, breaks into her house, hacks her emails

and does many other things. And, while most of the time he seems to misread social cues, every now and then he will correctly perceive something. This makes him somehow even more creepy, if that is possible. It shows that he understands, but chooses to ignore cues and take in others on a very arbitrary basis.
This is one of my favorite case of unreliable narrator. If you take the time to analyse Joe and the way he tells this story, you will have so much fun asking yourself ‘is that really how it happened?’

Honestly, if you want a good creepy read, this is an amazing choice. I would recommend it to anyone.

gracie_girl_2004's review against another edition

3.5

i had fun but i would have had more fun if i didn't know what was happening ! i already watched the show 😔 but now i think the second book might be different from the show ? but i can't be sure. if it's different i def want to keep reading. but i love how crazy joe is and i love that beck is crazy too like i hate you all but i also am rooting for you LOLLL