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Shannon Reads: You by Caroline Kepnes

Yesterday I had a very lighthearted review of the fun movie Always Be My Maybe... this review is a lot different. This is a very dark book... possibly one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. First off... this book is written in the second person... meaning that Joe Goldberg the narrator is talking to "You." Who is you? Guinevere Beck- an aspiring writer who is currently attending Brown University who wonders into the book store Joe works at an instantly becomes obsessed with her. This book is very voyeuristic because basically you are following Beck through Joe's eyes. If he's watching her in her apartment- so are you... and you only really see Beck from Joe who is kind of an unreliable narrator because really he doesn't know much about her other than the person he thinks she is by watching her. He doesn't know how she thinks about him or how she feels at any point in the book really. This book also had some dark humor in it. Compared to som...