Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes Also by this author: You, You, Hidden Bodies (You, #2)
Published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books on February 23, 2016
Pages: 448
ISBN: 1476785627
ASIN: B00P42WZGG
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Charmingly murderous antihero Joe continues his twisted quest for the perfect love in this thrilling follow-up to the “deeply dark yet mesmerizing” You (Booklist). When Joe follows the woman he wants to marry to the West Coast, he never imagines that his obsession will lead him to such tragedy…After the heartbreak of losing his girlfriend, Beck, Joe Goldberg thought he’d never love again. But when mysterious Amy Adam begins working for Joe at Mooney Books, he finds himself obsessed with his new employee. Amy is Beck’s opposite—she hates Twitter, she doesn’t even have an email address, she's completely unsearchable online—and she quickly captures Joe’s heart. But just before Joe can ask Amy to marry him, she disappears, leaving a trail of clues in her wake.Joe is then forced to do something so vile, so awful that he nearly loses his mind: he moves to Los Angeles to find Amy. He is tortured by a series of aspiring Angelenos—an insufferable stand-up comedian, philistine booksellers, a money-hungry nanny, and a slutty ghostwriter—before meeting his ticket to a more luxurious world: a surgically enhanced, social media–savvy heiress named Love Quinn. But Joe can’t stop stalking Amy, despite the world opening up to him with Love on his arm. Will Joe finally escape his sordid past? Or is Love just the latest casualty in Joe’s unrelenting search for the perfect match?
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- The fact that this is a book I love seems to contradict everything that would lead me to say I love a book. If you’ve read my Random List about Caroline Kepnes’ debut novel You, then you will understand why I’ve chosen this mode to share my thoughts about her second novel Hidden Bodies.
- Hidden Bodies could easily be titled “Further Adventures of Your Favorite Serial Killer”. Joe Goldberg is back and he’s still employing his preferred method of dealing with people who annoy him…he kills them.
- None of Joe’s victims are sympathetic characters who make you cry or say “OMG” or “Bless their hearts!” − any self-respecting sociopath would have killed these people!
- What does it say about me that I’m crazy about a character who is crazy??? Sometimes I think I’m just plain weird…no, wait…that’s Joe Goldberg.
- Hey! I’m not the only crazy one − take Love Quinn, a poor little rich girl who should be playing tennis and having babies but who loves Joe enough to help him keep the bodies hidden.
- This is a book that shouldn’t be funny, but it is. Joe Goldberg is the most entertaining combination of libertine and prude to ever emerge from the mind of an author. Caroline Kepnes. . .your mind is a wonderful and terrible thing. I really love that you dedicated this book to your mother!
- Amy Adam, you little skank! You definitely annoyed our Joe! Now you’ve led him on a merry chase all the way across the country to that land of make-believe called Hollywood and you don’t even have the courtesy to stay still long enough for him to find you and eliminate you! Shame!!!
- Just how many weirdos can one sociopath be expected to deal with? Our Joe encounters more than his share in Hollywood. For example, there’s Harvey, an aspiring comedian, whose favorite phrase is “Am I right or am I right?”, Calvin, whose aspirations require so many hyphens, Joe is flabbergasted, and Thirty Quinn, a rich kid who should just kick back and enjoy his money, but insists on trying to write movies as he sucks the life out of everyone around him who can actually write, and, of all things, he just won’t stay dead!
- Hidden Bodies sometimes reads like a spoof of the rich and famous as written by a sociopath. Readers will love meeting the Quinn family and there is also a revisit to the bizarro Salinger family from You.
- If you love to laugh, if you don’t mind being mildly shocked, and if you’re just a little bit twisted or even a lot twisted, treat yourself to a reading of this book. It will renew your faith in the creativity of the human mind.
About Caroline Kepnes
Caroline Kepnes is a native of Cape Cod and the author of many published short stories. After graduating from Brown University, Caroline moved to New York where she covered pop culture for Entertainment Weekly, Tiger Beat, E! Online and Yahoo. She wrote episodes of 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Her directorial debut short film Miles Away premiered at the Woods Hole Film Festival and took third place in the Audience Award for Comedy Short. During her sophomore year of high school, she won an honorable mention in Sassy Magazine’s Fabulous Fiction Contest. Her favorite things include Mad Men, Prince lyrics, Bret Easton Ellis novels and romantic comedy films set in New York. She loves dancing in small bars to live funk music as much as she loves dancing in the living room to iTunes. First unrealized career ambition of her life: Solid Gold dancer. Caroline’s second novel, Hidden Bodies, is the follow-up to her debut novel, You, which was optioned by Showtime. Caroline now lives in Los Angeles, where she writes fiction, drinks artificially sweetened caffeinated beverages, and avoids freeways.
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