![]() Joe manages to guess how Love would've alibied him when he's being interrogated by the police at the end of the book.When blackmailing Joe to write scripts for him, Forty is hit by a car and killed - and it had nothing to do with Joe.Forty was then hit by a car while jaywalking. Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Joe nearly killed Forty from a heroin overdose but was narrowly stopped.The wealth disparity is a significant issue. Cast Full of Rich People: Joe spends most of the book hanging around with the fabulously wealthy Quinn family.Bondage Is Bad: Joe asks "what's wrong with the world?" after he buys supplies to tie up and murder Amy and a girl asks him if he's a fan of Fifty Shades of Grey.Babies Ever After: What the ending promises for Love and Joe.Almost Famous Name: As she camoed in You, Joe's new girlfriend Amy Adam. ![]() Adapted as the second season of Netflix's series based on the books. And he's willing to do just about anything to get what he wants.įollowed by a sequel of its own, You Love Me. Things are never simple with Joe Goldberg, after all. And then there's Robin Fincher, an LAPD cop who moonlights as "security" for movie stars and thinks he's more of a friend to them than he truly is. Love's brother Forty is.well, he's just terrible - a vainglorious drug addict with Hollywood ambitions that far exceed his exceptionally limited talents. Joe being Joe, he immediately falls head over heels for Love, and she seems to feel the same way about him.īut Joe being Joe, there are, of course, complications. Joe wants revenge.īut his plans are thrown off when he meets Love Quinn, a beautiful widow and scion of the ridiculously wealthy Quinn family. When she ends up robbing his book store and fleeing across country to Los Angeles, Joe's not willing to let her go. Having killed Beck at the end of You (2015), Joe meets a nice girl - Amy. ![]() Click here to buy it for £11.Things have been rough for Joe Goldberg since he murdered his girlfriend. Hidden Bodies is published by Simon & Schuster (£14.99). Fucking and killing are the same damn thing.” When he buys “rope and duct tape, plastic bags, cable ties and plastic gloves” for use in a murder, “the girl at the register winked and said she’s also a big fan of Fifty Shades and this is what has become of our society. But despite his dark proclivities, Joe is a horribly funny, strangely seductive narrator to spend time with – bitingly intelligent and simultaneously misanthropic and desperate for love. The plot of Hidden Bodies is occasionally preposterous it sags a little in the middle as Joe’s relationship with Love develops and Kepnes’s antihero gets away, literally and absurdly easily, with murder. “Beck was such a mess that in order to take care of her, I had to follow her home and hack into her email and worry about her Facebook and her Twitter and her nonstop texting, all the contradictions, the lies.” “In the past, I had a tendency to be intense you might even call it obsessive,” he says, underplaying it somewhat. He is both self-aware, at one point even slamming the “ridiculous, second-person cuntiness” of a casting call, and terribly deluded. He also can’t stop offing the people he comes across, whether it’s for reasons of violent dislike or because they get in his way. And Joe might have left his past behind him on the east coast, but he can’t stop worrying about the DNA evidence he abandoned at the scene of one of his murders.Ĭaroline Kepnes, whose creation, Joe, is ‘a horribly funny, strangely seductive’ narrator. There’s plenty of sex, as a new love interest – Love, sister of Forty, named by tennis-obsessed, loaded parents – comes into Joe’s sphere. ![]() If you don’t, they don’t learn anything.” “This, this is why you have to kill people. “It’s the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they’re not dirty.” Italics have rarely been used to such cutting effect. Along the way, he meets various people who get on the wrong side of him he’s also creatively caustic about the Angelenos he comes across, all “sick with aspirations” of fame. Philip Roth would approve,” says Joe.īut Amy isn’t as in love with Joe as he thinks she robs him and scarpers to Los Angeles, not the best move when you’re dealing with a serial killer. He sets out to find her, forcing himself reluctantly into the world of Facebook and Tinder and Hollywood as he tries to track her down. I’m not supposed to overstock a title, but I like fucking Amy near our yellow wall of books. I want to possess all the dark yellow copies ever made and keep them in the basement so that only Amy and I can touch them. “It’s one of our favourite books and we reread it together.
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