You Love Me (You #3) by Caroline Kepnes #bookreview #thriller
Title: You Love Me
Author: Caroline Kepnes
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Page Count: 387
My rating: 5 stars
About the book:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show—a compulsively readable trip into the deviant mind of the uniquely antisocial, savvy bookseller Joe Goldberg.
Joe Goldberg is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.
He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way . . . by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.
The trouble is . . . Mary Kay already has a life. She’s a mother. She’s a friend. She’s . . . busy.
True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He’s ready. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kay will do the right thing and make room for him.
Oh my gosh Joe is back again!! I love Joe, he’s my favorite fictional psychopath and I was so excited to crawl back into Joe’s head and see where life has taken him this time and boy was it yet again different from before.
You Love Me is the third book in Caroline Kepnes’s You series and it picks up Joe Goldberg’s story a little while after the ending of the second book. If you haven’t read any of the You series before I’d highly suggest starting the series from the beginning and getting to know this awesome character from there. Each of the book’s take place at a different stage in Joe’s life and it’s all best understood in order.
This time around Joe has give up big city life and has moved to a small island in the Pacific Northwest. Joe had plans for this to be the place where he would have taken his family but after a slight urging to sign away his parental rights Joe is now on his own and his eye on the local librarian as he volunteers at the library to pass his time.
I started off this series thinking I had found the creepiest, most disturbing character around. With the story being told from Joe’s thoughts as he stalked a young woman I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough being engaged and horrified all at the same time. When the second book came around I actually began to root for Joe *gasp*. Joe is witty, disturbed, mesmerizing and intoxicating and now he is almost learning some self control. I was completely hooked yet again and still rooted for him as he tried to be good, sort of, maybe and even having read three novels I still am addicted to his unique way of viewing the world.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
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Spot on review Carrie! I felt much the same when I first started this series, but now I find Joe surprisingly likable, especially in this third outing.
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Thanks Kim! The first book just completely creeped me out with how easy he got so into her life but oh man was I hooked on the story. Now I feel like Joe is an old friend which is kind of scary.🤣
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Wonderful Review. I need to check out this series!
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Thanks Wendy! It seems to be a love it or hate it series but I know I’ve loved them.🙂
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great review! i need to catch up on this series! i loved the first book, and adored the show.
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Thanks Chelsea! I’ve also been watching the show and can’t wait to see their take on this third book.🙂 They did pretty good with the first two seasons so far although I do miss the constant being inside Joe’s head with is snarkiness that you get from the books.
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