You
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"Love hurts... When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe than Beck realizes, and much more to Beck than her oh-so-perfect facade. Their mutual obsession quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences. A chilling account of unrelenting passion, Caroline Kepnes's You is a perversely romantic thriller that's more dangerously clever than any you've read before"--
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You is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Caroline Kepnes.
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I really wanted to love this book. It was a great concept, being told from the stalker's POV. I just wasn't gripped by the story. There wasn't a point where I had to know what happened next. The writing was good, the concept was interesting, I just felt like it wasn't well executed. There was nothing that drew me in. I felt like it relied on violence and supposed ‘shock value' rather than actual substance, though I didn't think anything Joe did was surprising. Maybe it's just me and I've read too many thrillers! Either way, I didn't enjoy it as much as I was hoping I would.
DNF at 79%
I think I just really don't like these trendy contemporary thrillers. They all have that annoying, lovely random detail-oriented writing styles.
Plus, in this one everyone was annoying. Also, there was much more sexual content than actual serial killing, which... Why?
I wish I could say I liked it but I could not get passed all the cursing and the pace of the story was too slow. I did listen to this as an audiobook that might be a factor in my liking it. But I honestly thought it was way too psychotic for my liking. I would like to try this author again.
