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Following a major upheaval in his life, Joe Goldberg leaves Los Angeles for new pastures in the Pacific Northwest. When he meets the lovely Mary Kay DiMarco, Joe intensely falls for her. Ready to prove that he is a different man, Joe tries to court her without his usual obsessive acts. After securing a job in a new sleepy town and striving to prove an alternative method of making his next relationship work without meddling, he tries to find his happily ever after. But can Joe really prove that he is capable of change to find himself worthy of true love, or is he set to repeat history, dooming others to an ill-fated end of violence and destruction?
Perhaps my absolute favorite thing about this book is that it is perfectly clear this isn't the last we will be hearing from Joe, and I am already anxiously awaiting the next installment! I basically dragged out reading this as long as possible because I knew I'd miss him the minute it ended...and Joe? In the famous words of Prince/Sinead O'Connor....no one compares to, well, YOU! It’s not like I expected to fall in love, but the possibility would be nice—I am human, I am single—and all three of my female fellows are little Mrs. Tuffets [sic]. Visibly married. After reading this book, i'm disappointed. The plot is flat and nothing complicated happened to the main characters, apart from one thing or two. The ending is cliché. While i'm fully aware that this author usually instills Islamic teaching in her novels, however in some parts of this book it became too preachy, which makes the dialogues sound unnatural. They go to Fort Ward together, which is Mary Kay’s favorite place on the island (and also the place that Melanda is buried), and have sex there. However, as they leave Mary Kay gets a call. Phil is dead from an overdose. That was when I realised the power of what we were living through. I knew I wasn’t writing a fairy-tale. There were tiny chinks of moments when I thought we were getting somewhere – when he would give me the most amazing drawings – but it was a belief system, rather than circumstantial evidence.”BUT DESPITE THAT FACT, I still gave it a chance because it was Joe Goldberg. I had my reservations the entire time but I was still powering through it, even if it was missing the humor and wit I was used to. (Seriously, I expected to LOL so many times and it didn't happen.) at its best, this series is a pretentious guy who is also an unreliable narrator who is also truly hilarious getting up to hijinks on the regular. and of course by hijinks i mean felonies and murder — the best kind. This time the people Joe got involved are more broken, resentful, self destructive; they don’t belong to a big city, living their lives in a small island of Pacific Island which made them feel like more trapped, miserable, regretful. Why? Of course Mr. Goldberg keeps his secrets which prevent him to ride into the sunset with his love of his life. But this time her new woman has more obstacles to start a relationship with him. As a result: Joe needs to get action to terminate those obstacles one by one. But he shall not kill or hurt anyone! He has new principles, new rules. Is he closer to get his HEA? Of course not! Everything comes with price in his life. He lights another match to brighten depressed lives of small town’s people and now his fire can burn the whole place to the ground. What I love about this book is how the writer portrayed how a relationship is supposed to be in Islam. I find it cute and very heartwarming when Harris asks for permission and advice from Nieza's dad before proceeding with his proposals. Like, oh! Let's be a freak together!
That’s the most enjoyable ride to be inside Joe’s mind: he’s still disturbed, obsessed, sarcastic, criticizer of popular culture but he is still ugly honest, straightforward, direct because he knows himself, what he’s capable of and he already made peace with his inner monster. even though norhafsah’s writing style is not really my preference, the simplistic writing style makes it easy for beginners to read the book. I highly appreciate the author's idea to highlight the issues of Malay superstitions in our society and how to deal with them. A much-needed awareness campaign, praise-worthy! The surprise elements in this book are good, too. Compulsively readable . . . There's never been a better time to get acquainted with Kepnes’s dangerously appealing leading man’ Booklistthis is my 2nd book from the author (first being Time to Heal), the first one was just an ok read for me—the writing style doesn’t capture my attention, so i gave this book a chance to prove me wrong. The anticipated third novel in the YOU series by Caroline Kepnes is finally here. It’s a whoop! moment for me to finally meet the deliciously addictive Joe Goldberg again. Are y’all superfans enough to get that reference or did I just waste a crapton of my time making this gif for no reason???? Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney, published by Flatiron Books. @Flatironbooks @alicewriterland #Blogger #review #psychologicalthriller #domesticthriller
I read You seven years ago, and gave it four stars. I read Hidden Bodies four years ago, and gave it three stars. I'm, unfortunately, giving You Love Me two stars. I have never tried to control anyone in my entire life. I have only tried to help people make good decisions. For example when Nieza told Harris the meaning of Insya-Allah and Harris responded, then Nieza suddenly said something like "here's another one, Kun Fayakun". I found it to be a bit weird if we were to talk like that with non-Muslims in real world. The dialogues when Nieza was talking to her friends also sound unnatural. Did Love change Joe? The third book in the You series seeks to answer this question. (It's worth noting that I actually shrieked "Oh My God!" when I learned I had gotten an early copy of this novel to review. Thanks so much to Random House for this treat! The book releases on April 6, 2021.) The highly anticipated new thriller from the author of the hit You series – we couldn’t put it down’ Closer
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I was fully entertained by the book, and would place it right behind the first book in the "You" canon — “Hidden Bodies" being my least favorite, "You" being the total classic. However, I promised to be honest in my review so let me say there are a couple of things in the book I didn't love as much as “You”: (1) In this book, Joe is painted more as a victim of circumstance. Some things are maybe "not his fault." Of course the reader will have to decide whether this is true, or just Joe's interpretation, but I felt this Joe was presented much more as the hapless victim at times, rather than an obvious psychopath who is rationalizing, as in the previous books. For me that made this a little less fun. It’s a little more like the TV show in this way. I prefer Joe as a straight up psycho. (2) A few of the new characters in this volume are just bananas with motivations and actions that don’t make logical sense. As an example, it’s not like I come to “You” for feminist theory (and I don’t require it, as a feminist AND a superfan of American Psycho), but the character of the strident feminist best friend in this book was a little on the nose and hard to swallow. Her motivations in a key scene or two were, to me, inexplicable. One or two of the other characters are similar. (3) This book had SO many twists — some of them were just fantastic and mind blowing. But some of them for me had no logic. It details their electrifying odyssey together, as Manni deploys what he calls “tough, energetic, imaginative love” to heal his brother and help him to reconnect to the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that Manni may have saved Reuben’s life by rescuing him from care. Also, I find the dialogue to be childish. Didn’t reflect them as working adults. Their conversations give “The Lizzie McGuire” vibes. I mean if one, or two characters are naive, it is okay, but almost all the characters are like that, even the “villains”, who sound like school bullies in children's books, mean yet still naive.
Joe also pretends that Melanda is met a man and is newly in love. He has “Melanda” start encouraging Mary Kay to get to know Joe. 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.
At the wedding, Nomi dances with Joe and puts her fingers in his hair, but he pulls away. He recognizes that something is off. Afterwards, Joe recognizes that Nomi is clearly struggling with confused feelings about the father figures in her life (i.e. “daddy issues”), and that he needs to stay away from her and avoids being alone with her. I would go to bed believing we had moved the baseline; that the front line of our battle had progressed, only to have my hopes dashed. I did feel it was a battle for brotherhood.” That night, Mary Kay gets drunk, and they kiss after Joe follows her into the bathroom. Joe tries to push things further, but Mary Kay breaks away and leaves. A powerfully addictive read that will keep readers up at night. Thank you Simon & Schuster UK, Netgalley and author Caroline Kepnes for the privilege of reading this ARC. #YouLoveMe #NetGalley
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