Absolutely loved the third book in the series...Joe is back and better than ever. This was my favorite of the series. I would highly recommend reading this book (but only after reading the first two). Cannot wait to recommend this book. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced reader copy.

I cannot get enough of Joel Goldberg and this latest installment did NOT disappoint. Absolutely fantastic and i cannot stop talking about this to my coworkers! I cannot wait until this hits stores!

Mindblowing! Joe can never change no matter how much he wants to. He can change his locations, but never the twisted mind that is him. However, with this story, it seems that Joe might be headed for redemption after, but there will always be that little devil on his shoulder that he can't seem to shake. It's as if it is destiny that he always lands in dark waters. He can't out run destiny. I can't wait until this book is another season on Netflix. We all know who Joe is played by, but who will play everyone else.

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Random House and NetGalley for letting me read this fabulous ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love that this book is like the first and is written to the reader, as if Joe is talking to us...even though it is really inner dialogue. And although this is the third book in the series <i>You Love Me</i> was still a brilliant read, there was no failure to continue the creepiness of Joe and what a psycho he is. (What does it say about me that I enjoyed it so much and was kind of cheering him on?)

The first book in this series was excellent and I enjoyed number two but not as much.... This time around Caroline Kepnes is back at the top of her game and so is Joe. The way this was written pulled <i>you</i> as the reader right into the story.

I won't spoil the end for those who haven't read it yet but it will ruin the series for <i>you</i> as there are spoilers if <i>you</i> haven't read book two and watch the Netflix show. This thriller keeps <i>you</i> on the edge of your seat with enough decent twists and turns along the way to keep <i>you</i> fully engrossed.

Caroline Kepnes, if <i>you</i> ever read this - <i>you</i> need to write a fourth book, I want to know what happens next.

<b>Disclousure:</b>
<i>Thank you NetGalley, Caroline Kepnes and Random House Publishing Group for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an impartial review; all opinions are my own.</i>

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My jaw dropped, my mind is blown, eyes are popped out of my head.

Silence. Sigh. Silence. More sigh.

No words can be enough to define how I felt about this book. Keeping my big mouth shut and calm down my extra hyped mind might be the most challenging things in my life right now!

I don’t want to give any spoiler! I’m not a despicable party pooper! I mostly give away too much when I write reviews but this time giving spoilers will also mean to talk about whole entire season of one of the most rated, anticipated and popular ( definitely well-deserved) series!

I can only talk about my comparisons this book with two previous ones by telling you: THIS IS SO FAR THE BEST BOOK OF THE SERIES!

Do you know why?

This was the saddest and most heartbreaking book of the series. Joe is always a “fire starter”: he involved in people’s lives, lighting a match, illuminating their hypocrisy because most of them flawed, emotionally disturbed and acting like honorable people but actually they are not so different from Joe. In fact they are worst and sometimes you think you nearly deserved what happened to them! And as soon as he throws away the match, naturally some of them gets burned or deeply hurt.

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.

Joe moves to this cozy island, after leaving his adventurous lives in big Apple and city of Mr. Morningstar, having a big, lovely house, volunteered job in library. You ask “how”, I just shrug, zipping my lips. You gotta read and learn if he quit his full time daddy job!!!!!!

This time we meet with another face of Joe: the wiser, more mature, patient, less obsessive ( just a little bit) trying to control his urges, his impulsive manners, being a better man who learned from his mistakes. Too many RIPs later, he is cautious. Maybe for the first time he really fell in love and maybe for the first time he found a better woman ( Beck was insecure cheater and Love is... well, love is inspiration of the song: what’s love gotta do with it, who needs a sociopathic girlfriend when Joe’s heart is already broken! )

Yes, Joe doesn’t have great track to find ideal women to spend his life. So let’s already give her name MK, a librarian, mother of 17 years old Meerkat ( not the real one, that’s the nickname Joe gave it to her), intellectual, people pleaser, emotionally insecure, wearing short skirts, flirting with Joe by sharing his beef-broccoli but their push and pull kind of daily banters and way too much high chemistry are not enough for them to form an intimate bounding.

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.

I loved this book because:

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.

Ms.Kepnes achieved something impossible. She made us empathize with a very dangerous, disturbed man. Yes, he killed, he stalked, he destroyed, he lied. But we still witness his never ending inner fight, facing his demons and we cannot hate him. Actually we start to like him. It’s dangerous line to root for a very disturbed man who can put you on fire and destroy lives to save himself but at each book we cross our fingers and whispering our prays for him to get rid of those complex situations he created at first hand by obsessing troubled women. And interestingly we want to see him settle, burying his past demons. But he’s trouble magnet: even though he changes himself and bring out his goodness by beating his inner vicious monster, the people around him never let him move on with his life. There will be always loss and casualties...

My warnings about this book:
You will get shocked, entertained, scared, shaken to the core! There are unexpected twists, shocking moments you never ever see it coming. I foresaw some of them but the final twist backstabbed me! I still cannot move, giving blank looks to my computer, seeing my horrifying face reminds you of a middle age woman suffer from too much Botox injection.

No more words! I’m giving entire stars of galaxy or rename a planet as Kepnes! This book is beyond five starred reading!
And I’m the lucky cow who had the brightest chance to win a reviewer copy!

Million thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for sharing this special reviewer copy of this incredible book with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

This would have been a home run and a 5 star review because honestly Caroline Kepnes owns my soul but the last 100 pages had wayyyy too much action. It felt back heavy and would have been balanced with some of the action in the middle.

Also the conflict with Love was over and done with in less than twenty pages. WTF?

And no details about Joe in prison? COME ON!

When I requested this ARC, I didn't realize that this was the third book in a series. I also haven't watched You on Netflix, though I know everyone has been talking about it. I found this to be creepy and well-written and I feel like I now need to catch up on the show as well as the other books to do it justice.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Joe is back in this text that follows up Hidden Bodies. I enjoyed the third book in the series immensely. Joe trying to make a family work is entertaining. I highly recommend this book.

Joe has a new home and a new job in a library on an island in the Pacific Northwest. He thinks this might be the time to settle down, start a family. And he’s just met the woman who can step into role of wife and mother, librarian Mary Kay DiMarco. He’s sure she’s the perfect woman, and if she doesn’t see it that way, then, well, he’ll convince her, one way or the other. Reminiscent of You, this a a skin crawling story of a man who doesn’t understand the word no