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  You Love Me By Caroline Kepnes This is the third book in the YOU series. Joe Goldberg is out of prison, but he has been exiled away from his child, who he has with Love Quinn. His in-laws bought him a house and told him to stay away. While there Joe meets a woman at the library where he volunteers. Her name is Mary Kay. She is a librarian and Joe quickly learns everything about her, falling in love yet again. This time Joe is determined to be good. Mary Kay introduces him to her friends, but fails to tell him she's married. Joe hopes Mary Kay will realize she loves him as much as he loves her and will remove the obstacles in her life that keep them apart. Pretty soon these obstacles start dying, but Joe hasn't killed them. In this book, Joe is being watched and followed by a man hired by the Quinn's. Joe has to dodge this man and keep him happy, finding an ally against the Quinn's. Until Love calls him back, where Joe has to fight for his own life. When he is able to...

  Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes Joe Goldberg has a new girlfriend and she's just as shady as he is. They make fun of people together, have questionable pasts, and lie, cheat and steal. But when Joe is on the receiving end of Amy's lies and theft pattern, she becomes his next target. He follows her to Los Angeles in order to make her pay. With her life. Hidden Bodies is not as good as YOU . Though Joe was the same narcissistic jerk, he wasn't nearly as manipulative as he was in YOU . And that bothered me. That was the intriguing thing about him that made me want to keep reading. Joe searches for Amy in LA, and finds her. But she gets away. During his search he falls for a wealthy "non-actress" grocery chain heiress and gets a firsthand look at the good life of celebrity. Before he falls for Love and moves in with her family he racks up a body count as he searches for Amy. Some are directly related to her, but others are just side casualties. None of them had th...

  You by Caroline Kepnes Joe Goldberg seems innocuous. He works in a bookstore, lives in a crappy apartment, and lives a quiet, albeit eccentric, life. At least, that's what we're supposed to believe. When Guinevere Beck (just Beck) enters the bookstore, Joe becomes enamored with her flirty style and her taste in books. He learns her name and uses it to stalk her on social media. When he steals her phone he gains an all-access pass into Beck's life and uses it all to become the perfect man for her. Slowly and methodically, Joe positions himself to have Beck fall for him, reluctantly because of her own issues with men and sex. Eventually, when they are together at last, Joe manipulates her life and scrutinizes every nuance of anything she says in the digital world until Beck's secrets make Joe see her in a different light. There are casualties along the way. Beck's sometimes-boyfriend Benji and Peach, her secret-lesbian best friend who has her own agenda for Beck...