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// Content Warning: Blood / Confinement / Death / Drugs / Emotional abuse / Gaslighting / Infidelity / Kidnapping / Murder / Physical abuse / Stalking / Suicide / Violence //
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Age group: Adult
Genre(s): Thriller
Pub date: August 28th 2018
P R E M I S E
When a beautiful aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.
M Y R E V I E W
You is told in second person narration (how creepy is that?) and is a really really long spoken letter to this woman from a guy named Joe (no offence but ew). Now what you need to know about Joe is that he is a certified stalker and sicko whose talents include straining information from all corners of the internet to help with his stalking and somehow managing to get away with everything (including murder).
But with all those terrible talents, he is also incredibly smart and well-read and appears to be the type of guy every mother wants their daughter to marry and the one fathers would approve of.
This book makes me so glad that I am a very private person when it comes to the internet / social media. Unfortunately for Beck, she's very active on twitter and fortunately for Joe, he knows exactly where she is at any given time. Not going to lie but this book makes me want to deactivate all my existing social media and disappear under a false name because I am scared as fuck.
The way the author had written this book made me feel very disturbed; it doesn't help that this narration is mostly made up of his obsessive and unfiltered thoughts. She has really used the opportunity to scare the living daylights out of her readers. In a way this reminds me of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov because both books are told from the point of view of a man unable to contain his desires and therefore sexualises the woman (or in Lolita's case, a child) and would readily kill anyone standing in their way (again, in Lolita's case, the narrator lusted after a child and if I ever met him on the streets I sure as hell am chopping off his crown jewels. You're welcome world).
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