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A review by shirecrow
You by Caroline Kepnes
4.0
"I shove the pages into your mouth and your pupils slip around and your back arches. This is the sound of you dying."
i have seen the show before reading this book. I know, joe would hate me for this.
i have seen the show so many times i could recreate every single scene myself. no crew, no script, no actors. just me. playing every single part. it's embarrassing but i can't help myself, it became kind of a comfort.
i knew it was based on books but it kept slipping my mind and it never made it into my own bookshelf... until a few days ago.
i finally got around to buying the damn book and here we are.
i have never read something quite like this. if you know me, you know that all my reviews start like this. and it's true.
_You_ has been something i have never read before. the usage of the word "you" and "and" was overwhelming in a brilliant way. i love the way that thoughts and sentences were bound together in such an unusual way for a book.
in _you_ you aren't really you. you are joe. but YOU is beck... anyways, joe is a brilliant character. so deeply disturbing but yet you can't help but feel sympathy for him due to the fact that you basically spend days reading yourself into him and being manipulated by him. in the beginning i found myself audibly sighing when he once again talked about her nipples but then i remembered that's the point. he IS supposed to be creepy. he IS supposed to be disgusting. this wasn't written to be a romance novel. this was written to be a thriller. and goddamn if it isn't one.
the show did a beautiful job in my opinion. i found myself reading in the way that joe speaks and i found it charming. i chuckled. i never chuckle while reading. yet here i was, putting the book down to LAUGH. the humor in such terrible situations and people was great. joe is a "sicko", yes. but there's a reason why he is so liked by everyone. he's charming. funny, intelligent and comforting when he has to be. the display of his thoughts was just so interesting that i couldn't wait to read the next chapter, the next page, the next sentence.
i loved the conclusion to beck. that she's also fucked up. not fucked up in a joe fucked up way but fucked up enough for you to be like "oh".
the description are perfectly balanced. not too much detail but just enough for you to know what is going on and what it looks like.
this book would have been a lot different if it was written by a man though. at some passages i felt so weird. weird like i was reading stephen king describe a little girl's breasts for no reason again but then i remembered that it wasn't stephen king and that there WAS a reason to it and that this is supposed to be creepy and disgusting and that this wasn't just stephen king wanting to talk about little girls tits again.
anyways, you get it. i loved this book. i will probably read it again just like i watched the show over 10 times. i can't wait to read the second book as well. don't disappoint me, joe. WE WILL MEET AGAIN!
i have seen the show before reading this book. I know, joe would hate me for this.
i have seen the show so many times i could recreate every single scene myself. no crew, no script, no actors. just me. playing every single part. it's embarrassing but i can't help myself, it became kind of a comfort.
i knew it was based on books but it kept slipping my mind and it never made it into my own bookshelf... until a few days ago.
i finally got around to buying the damn book and here we are.
i have never read something quite like this. if you know me, you know that all my reviews start like this. and it's true.
_You_ has been something i have never read before. the usage of the word "you" and "and" was overwhelming in a brilliant way. i love the way that thoughts and sentences were bound together in such an unusual way for a book.
in _you_ you aren't really you. you are joe. but YOU is beck... anyways, joe is a brilliant character. so deeply disturbing but yet you can't help but feel sympathy for him due to the fact that you basically spend days reading yourself into him and being manipulated by him. in the beginning i found myself audibly sighing when he once again talked about her nipples but then i remembered that's the point. he IS supposed to be creepy. he IS supposed to be disgusting. this wasn't written to be a romance novel. this was written to be a thriller. and goddamn if it isn't one.
the show did a beautiful job in my opinion. i found myself reading in the way that joe speaks and i found it charming. i chuckled. i never chuckle while reading. yet here i was, putting the book down to LAUGH. the humor in such terrible situations and people was great. joe is a "sicko", yes. but there's a reason why he is so liked by everyone. he's charming. funny, intelligent and comforting when he has to be. the display of his thoughts was just so interesting that i couldn't wait to read the next chapter, the next page, the next sentence.
i loved the conclusion to beck. that she's also fucked up. not fucked up in a joe fucked up way but fucked up enough for you to be like "oh".
the description are perfectly balanced. not too much detail but just enough for you to know what is going on and what it looks like.
this book would have been a lot different if it was written by a man though. at some passages i felt so weird. weird like i was reading stephen king describe a little girl's breasts for no reason again but then i remembered that it wasn't stephen king and that there WAS a reason to it and that this is supposed to be creepy and disgusting and that this wasn't just stephen king wanting to talk about little girls tits again.
anyways, you get it. i loved this book. i will probably read it again just like i watched the show over 10 times. i can't wait to read the second book as well. don't disappoint me, joe. WE WILL MEET AGAIN!