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A review by mbkarapcik
For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes
4.0
The latest installment in the You series, For You and Only You, by Caroline Kepnes, does not disappoint. Pontificator and murderer Joe Goldberg receives a writing fellowship at Harvard University and creates more mayhem in Cambridge.
Fresh from living in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and then Florida, he's written a book and caught the attention of an esteemed literary author, Glenn Shoddy. He joins the motley crew of writers who all want to be published. There he meets working-class Wonder, a manager at a Dunkin' Donuts and aspiring writer. And that's where all the trouble starts.
With the fourth book, you'd think the antics of Joe and his musings about the world would be old hat. Somehow, the author makes this book as fresh as the first one. You never know what's going to happen or what interesting characters Joe will encounter. And you've grown accustomed to Joe taking other people's futures into his own hands and that will continue in unusual, stealthy ways. Plenty of surprises appear in this book.
I really liked the idea of an ensemble group of people in a writing group. They've all come for their own reasons and from varied backgrounds. There's a rivalry between all of them, and yet Joe finds that Wonder understands him and he her. They're, as he says, in this together. As you will soon find out, he will do anything to ensure that his latest lady love and her book gets the TLC and attention it deserves.
Towards the end, though, the book slows down. I'm not sure that I really liked the ending. It wasn't explosive, and I cannot imagine how the author will position Joe next, but I'm there for it. I wouldn't say that it's a let-down, but it almost felt that way. The wind hasn't been taken out of his sails because Joe always seems to rise from the ashes, but it wasn't what I expected. But I know that the author can come up with something unexpected and take Joe in another fresh direction despite my misgivings with the ending of book four. Here's to book number five!
Thank you, Random House Publishing Group – Random House, for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
Fresh from living in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and then Florida, he's written a book and caught the attention of an esteemed literary author, Glenn Shoddy. He joins the motley crew of writers who all want to be published. There he meets working-class Wonder, a manager at a Dunkin' Donuts and aspiring writer. And that's where all the trouble starts.
With the fourth book, you'd think the antics of Joe and his musings about the world would be old hat. Somehow, the author makes this book as fresh as the first one. You never know what's going to happen or what interesting characters Joe will encounter. And you've grown accustomed to Joe taking other people's futures into his own hands and that will continue in unusual, stealthy ways. Plenty of surprises appear in this book.
I really liked the idea of an ensemble group of people in a writing group. They've all come for their own reasons and from varied backgrounds. There's a rivalry between all of them, and yet Joe finds that Wonder understands him and he her. They're, as he says, in this together. As you will soon find out, he will do anything to ensure that his latest lady love and her book gets the TLC and attention it deserves.
Towards the end, though, the book slows down. I'm not sure that I really liked the ending. It wasn't explosive, and I cannot imagine how the author will position Joe next, but I'm there for it. I wouldn't say that it's a let-down, but it almost felt that way. The wind hasn't been taken out of his sails because Joe always seems to rise from the ashes, but it wasn't what I expected. But I know that the author can come up with something unexpected and take Joe in another fresh direction despite my misgivings with the ending of book four. Here's to book number five!
Thank you, Random House Publishing Group – Random House, for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!