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You by Caroline Kepnes

3.0

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3.5 stars, almost a 4 but something stopped me. Joe is a masterfully realised portrayal of ‘the mundanity of evil’ - and a very particular variety of it. So many parts of his character are unsettlingly familiar, and this, along with the ‘logic’ he uses to explain himself into and out of events, makes the horror of ‘You’ hit sickeningly hard. It’s a great read, but I think Kepnes has the potential to sharpen what she has even further. I now feel qualified to say that the Netflix adaptation does a very good job, as well!