Hidden Bodies
The Dangerously Twisted New Thriller from the Author of You
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- 85,00 kr
Publisher Description
From the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller YOU comes another grippingly obsessive novel.
Joe Goldberg came to Los Angeles to start over, to forget about what happened in New York. But in a darkened room in Soho House everything suddenly changed.
She is like no one he's ever met before.
She doesn't know about his past and never can.
The problem is, hidden bodies don't always stay that way.
'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King on You
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Caroline Kepnes’ debut, You, really got under our skin, due in large part to her stalker antihero, Joe Goldberg. Now Joe’s back—and just as creepy—as he navigates a new relationship with a technology-averse, bookish and warm-blooded blonde named Amy. Hidden Bodies is a great read: entertaining, unsettling and giddily deranged. We loved witnessing the manipulative, psychopathic Joe get a taste of his own medicine. When Joe heads to Los Angeles in search of revenge, Kepnes revels in skewering the city’s image-obsessed culture.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Joe Goldberg, the narrator of Kepnes's dark, quirky sequel to 2014's You, is a serial killer who otherwise leads a normal life as a New York City bookstore manager. Joe's relationship with M.F.A. student Guinevere Beck, whom he pursued in You, ended badly, and he's devastated when his current girlfriend, Amy Kendell Adam, mysteriously disappears. By tracing Amy's computer search history, Joe discovers that she has registered for an acting class in Hollywood. He vows to go there, find Amy, and make her pay for deserting him. Once in Hollywood, he continues his murder spree, all the while hoping to find Amy. In his search, he meets many well-drawn characters, including an L.A. policeman and a rich, drug-addicted playboy. Meanwhile, Joe undergoes a surprising personal transformation, and remarkably, the author convinces the reader to empathize with her killer protagonist.
Customer Reviews
3,75 stars ⭐️
The obsessive, creepy mindset of a love-addicted stalker continues … But can this sequel be innovative? Yup.
Btw: Enough with those Stephen King references, (thank God)
Joe finally gets to taste his own medicine.
The irony when Joe judges another stalker and thinks he’s creepy who invades people's privacy, while Joe himself spies, hacks and looks at others, he who kills all those who get in the way of the love he might get from his current girlfriend. Joe who can collect his girlfriend's leftovers from the trash. He who judges another stalker for misusing personal information about celebrities in Hollywood and for seeking them out at their own private homes.
Actually, meeting another stalker does not mean that Joe gets any self-awareness at all of what he is doing himself. Joe justifies all his choices. He didn’t had any choice. He just had to do it. It’s their fault. Always their fault. They are the ones who put themselves in such situations. He just did what he had to do. He is the sensible, logical one. Rational. Smart. He is completely insane (!) And I love it.
This sequel was hilarious, creepy and disgusting, provocative and toxic, it surprised and engaged me a lot!