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slimmwrites · 1 year

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This season of You is very much hitting all the marks of a great dark academia. It's got the college setting, references to literary works, elitist douchebags, drinking, drugs and the deaths crucial to the plot, anonymous texts with threatening auras, and the very important Broken Heart ™️

I'm obsessed!!😩

#you #you season 4 #you s4 #you netflix #dark academia literature #dark academia #mystery #thriller #penn badgley #caroline kepnes #you and only you #hidden bodies #oxford #i'm obsessed #this show has taken over my life

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writingmylifesstory · 8 months

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Hidden Bodies, Caroline Kepnes

#writingmylifesstory #book quotes #booklr #caroline kepnes #hidden bodies #love quinn #joe goldberg #love

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shannonsutorius · 1 year

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hidden bodies / caroline kepnes

#you #hidden bodies #caroline kepnes #love quinn #love at first sight #joe goldberg #love #heartbreak #academia #dark academia #prose #poetry #light academia #electricity #writing #literature

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blurrypetals · 11 months

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For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes - blurrypetals review

originally posted jun. 7, 2023 - ★★★★☆

A Goodreads girl, Joe? Really? Despite my frustration and boredom with the previous book, You Love Me, I couldn't bring myself to skip this one. I enjoyed the fourth season of the television adaptation well enough, too, so I was intrigued to see how it might compare. And man, where You Love Me was a big letdown that felt like a more boring retread of You and ditched plotlines and characters set up in previous books, For You and Only You was a hilarious joyride of insanity that by contrast uses its episodic nature only to its benefit. I think one of the reasons this was so much more fun to me will be obvious for those who know me at all: the writing angle. I've always been very amused by Joe's musings on literature as well as media in general, but having him go in on writing, writers, and, perhaps most important and entertaining of all, the pretentiousness surrounding writing, writing groups, and the publishing industry. I also found Joe's latest obsession, Wonder, to be the most interesting since Love in Hidden Bodies, and even then, Love was really only interesting right at the very end, where Wonder stayed the same disastrous person the whole time, which was absolutely the point. I enjoyed how much friction she and Joe had in their relationship, how there were very few moments of reprieve for the two of them, a huge contrast to Joe's past victims in that sometimes it felt like Wonder was intentionally punishing him for his crimes when she was just that frustrating to him even with his rose-colored glasses on and the way their story ends is refreshingly different and interesting by contrast compared to the other books and victims. The supporting cast was also interesting in a big way; Sarah Beth is almost as wonderfully terrible as Peach was in the first book, and all her scenes with Joe were very fun. All in all, I felt like this was a massive improvement over You Love Me and, to be honest, I might even have liked it more than Hidden Bodies. I still think I'd prefer Kepnes to write something new and different instead of revisiting Joe Goldberg over and over again, but if she keeps writing them like this one, I definitely can't be too mad about it either.

#for you and only you #you #hidden bodies #you love me #caroline kepnes #joe goldberg #2023 #blurrypetals #goodreads mirror

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inlovewithquotes · 1 year

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A book let's you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.

-Hidden Bodies

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #qoutes about books #caroline kepnes #you #you series #hidden bodies

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intheheartofcinema · 1 year

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"And I'm starting to believe Joe's words...

You tv series (2018 -)

Developed by Greg Berlanti,Sera Gamble

based on the books by Caroline Kepnes

#series #netflix series #you #you netflix #season 4 #series scenes #series quotes #drama #psychological thriller #hidden bodies #penn badgley

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hollyhockdxll · 1 year

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hidden bodies // caroline kepnes

#caroline kepnes #hidden bodies #you series #you netflix #love quinn #joe goldberg #book quotes #bookblr #mine

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gazza-ladra · 2 years

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YOU - Part 2

So I’m about 2/3 through the second YOU book, and tbh I’m disappointed. There’s nothing ambiguous about Joe anymore, nothing to make you feel for him. He goes around fucking and murdering, gets everything and everyone he wants. No “problem solving “ whatsoever. This book so far could be titled The Sex Life of Joe G. Yeah, you still see inside his brain, but nothing’s in there except his dick. Not an interesting mind to explore.

I’m very much looking forward to the return of TV!Joe - or maybe the 3rd book will be back on track? Here’s hoping - Fingers crossed!

#Caroline Kepnes #YOU #Hidden Bodies #YOU Netflix #Joe Goldberg #gazza reads #spoilers

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000glow · 2 years

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#hidden bodies #lmao joe😭#joe goldberg #you #he's so ironic in this book #i love it sm

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myhikari21things · 10 months

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Read of Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes (2016) (439pgs)

#hidden bodies #caroline kepnes #fiction #paperback #2010s #reread

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lilmackiereads · 11 months

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YOU LOVE ME (2020) BY CAROLINE KEPNES SPOILER BOOK REVIEW:

I have been meaning to do this for a month now so bear with me! I wanted to finish it in time for the fourth installment to come out and I’m SO REEAAADYY FOR MORE JOE GOLDBERG CONTENT <3

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW HERE

My Score Chart:

0 Stars = Hate it/ Regret reading it

1 Star = Meh, not for me

2 Stars = Ok/ neutral

3 Stars = I liked it

4 Stars = I loved it

5 Stars = One of my favorite books ever!

Overall Rating and Basic Summary: 3.5 Stars

Out of the three You books I have read [as the fourth installment, For You and Only You (2023) just came out in April and I haven’t had a chance to start it yet] this is my second favorite. My favorite is the first book in the series, You (2014) [4 stars], and my least favorite so far is Hidden Bodies (2016) [3 stars]. If you are a fan of the first two books or the tv show I would recommend reading it, however, book 3 and season 3 are completely different in almost every way possible, so make sure you can separate them. I read You Love Me after completing season 3 so I was able to keep them apart. However, if I had read the book first, I may have been nitpicking the series for diverging so much from the text. YET, in the show’s defense, season 3 was filmed before book 3 came out, hence the major differences of the storylines and character arcs.

Similarities and Differences to season 3 of the tv series:

While the tv show follows the first two books pretty closely, season 3 takes place in California in a small suburban town where Joe and Love are married and raising their newborn son, Henry. Love just opened a bakery (Sweeney Todd vibes) and Joe is working at the local library. Murder ensues and lots of cheating and scandal yada yada. His main love interest outside of Love is a librarian named Marienne Bellamy who has a past of substance/ drug abuse and is doing her best to remain clean to gain custody of her elementary-school aged daughter. Something that I appreciated about the casting of Marienne in the television show is that she is played by Tati Gabrielle. I first saw Tati Gabrielle in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and really liked her in that because she was very sassy and beautiful. She is a black actress and is the first person of color that we have seen Joe be interested in which is nice to add some diversity to the story and the screen.

In the book, Joe is living without Love and Henry in Washington state and he is working at a library. Of course, he soon becomes interested in his librarian boss named Mary Kay DiMarco. In the book, the only diversity Mary Kay really has is a rocker aesthetic which I’m guessing is because they are near the Seattle grunge scene. Perhaps these women are personifications of the places they are from as Love is glamorous Los Angeles and Beck is preppy New York.

Other than Marienne and Mary Kay both working in libraries, being mothers, and having names that start with “M,” they are completely different characters. All of the annoying neighbors and cheating storylines from season 3 don’t exist in the book which I am grateful for since I couldn’t stand those aspects. Regardless, I really enjoyed the first couple episodes and last episode of the season 3 of the tv show. Season 3 had a lot of boring filler plotlines, but Love murdering again right out of the gate and Joe ultimately killing Love and faking his own death were very tense, fun scenes to watch. I enjoyed his Peter Petigrew moment of leaving a digit behind for the police to find.

In the novel, we have a bunch of new characters for Joe to interact with. Mary Kay has two toxic friends, Melanda and Seamus aka “Shortus,” plus a has-been rock n’roll husband with infidelity issues, Phil. Of course, Joe doesn’t approve of any of these people in her life and tries to remove them. He sees himself as a soon-to-be step-dad who is making life better for Mary Kay and her teenage daughter, Nomi whom he calls “Meerkat.” In this version, Love and baby Henry are in and out of Joe’s life as well as the Quinn’s kinda-sorta-hit-man, Oliver.

All of these new characters rubbed me the wrong way and I think that’s exactly what Kepnes intended to do. Melanda was such a fake feminist and a fake friend. Her lies and manipulation toward Mary Kay were hurtful and were so immature that I was somewhat relieved when Joe kidnapped her just to give Mary Kay a break. When Melanda killed herself while trapped in Joe’s house that was where the story first got interesting for me. Seamus also annoyed me immediately because he felt like a huge incel. I definitely agreed with Joe and thought he was hanging around Mary Kay the whole time because he was jealous of Joe for getting Mary Kay’s attention. When they revealed that he was sleeping with Nomi I. WAS. SHOCKED. I didn’t really have an opinion on Nomi until the end. Her obsessions with Columbine and Woody Allen kinda freaked me out. Am I the only one who didn’t see her coming onto Joe until the end? Oliver was kinda funny, but I did not like him blackmailing Joe. The feelings I have toward Joe.... maybe I should check on that. Haha. Phil was the worst. From his narcissism to his drug addiction and gaslighting toward Mary Kay... He was so yucky.

I thought that the build-up of the plot was a bit slow until about 100-150 pages which felt very heavy on the exposition of what happened between books two and three. The strength of this book was absolutely the climax. The last 100 pages were an absolute WILD ride and I felt like I was truly on a rollercoaster with the back-to-back twists. It’s really hard to surprise me with a twist, so this was excellent! I did not see Love trying to kill Joe and herself. That scene was super terrifying. I knew he would survive since there was another book coming out, but I wasn’t sure if Love would die or not --- she did --- since it is so different from the show. That coupled with Seamus kidnapping Joe and torturing him was not something I saw coming. It reminded me of The Most Dangerous Game. I was glad that Oliver saved him, even if it was just to keep Joe under his thumb. Lastly, I figured that Mary Kay would die at some point, but not until the next novel. Her death was surprising since I didn’t see it being an accident, especially not one caused by her own daughter!

Me after I finished book 3:

Would I recommend reading this book?

YES, but only if you read the other two first. I don’t think you have to watch the show to enjoy the books, but Joe references past characters often and I think it’s important to read the prior two books to understand his psyche. There are some fun references to Hannibal and American Psycho.

Would I read this book again?

Honestly, I sort of want to re-read it already because I just finished season 4 of the series and I just can’t get enough of Joe. Perhaps after I finish book 4 I’ll read them all again.