Hidden bodies : a novel / Caroline Kepnes.
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- ISBN: 9781982151003
- ISBN: 9781476785622
- ISBN: 1476785627
- Physical Description: 439 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Emily Bestler Books, Atria Books, 2016.
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Subject: | Booksellers and bookselling > Fiction. Interpersonal attraction > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Serial murderers > Fiction. Psychopaths > Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Psychological thriller. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Louise Public Library.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2015 September #1
Joe Goldberg is convinced of two things. He'll never love again after the death of his girlfriend, Beck, and he is going to get caught for murdering her best friend, Peach. Then Amy Adam walks into his NYC bookstore, and the two bond over Philip Roth and copious, fantastic sex. He's in love again, until Amy betrays him and heads to Los Angeles, of all places. Disgusted by her superficiality, Joe follows her out there and gets sucked into the world of ironic narcissism, relentless aspiration, and the general desperation of the celebrity-industrial complex. Then he meets Love Quinn, the grocery store heiress whose genuineness and perfection are only marred by her closeness to her twin brother, Forty, a drug-addled, delusional "screenwriter." Can Love's love quell Joe's murderous rage? The story reads like the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman but without the gore and misogyny, which means nothing stands in the way of the reader enjoying Joe's cynical, murderous charm. Though it is a sequel to You (2014), Hidden Bodies may be even better on its own. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 October #1
In this sequel to You, bookstore worker (and murderous stalker) Joe is in love. For real this time. With a woman who returns his affections, or so he thinks. He's convinced that he and Amy have the real thing. Until she disappears one day, taking a bunch of collectible books with her. Incensed, Joe is determined to find her. His quest takes him to Los Angeles where he breaks his own self-imposed ban on social media. He joins Facebook and Tinder and anything else his new friends and acquaintances suggest. But in his quest to find Amy, Joe finds Love. This heiress seems ready to accept Joe exactly as he is and isn't playing games. The question is, can Joe give up his own killer games and seething anger, now that he may have found his perfect woman at last? VERDICT The tone and pace of Kepnes's sophomore novel is quite different from You, in which the suspense stemmed from the claustrophobic world Joe inhabited. Here he's striking out both geographically and emotionally and the reader is taken along for his angry ride. His running commentary on life in L.A. brings to mind the American Psycho narrator's cynical views, and Joe's twisted attempts at relationships will appeal to fans of Dexter. [See Prepub Alert, 8/10/15.]âJane Jorgenson, Madison P.L., WI
[Page 70]. (c) Copyright 2015 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 April #2
Kepnes received strong reviews when she debuted last year with You, featuring creepy antihero Joe Goldberg, dangerously obsessed with a woman who bought a book at the East Village bookstore where he works. In this sequel, Joe become equally obsessed with new bookstore employee Amy Adam.
[Page 56]. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2015 November #1
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. Agent: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, WME Entertainment. (Feb.)
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