You Love Me is a thriller novel by Caroline Kepnes, published in April 2021.[1] It is the sequel to her 2016 novel, Hidden Bodies, and third installment of the You series.[2]
Kepnes published another sequel, For You and You Only, in 2023.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Synopsis
Following a major upheaval in his life, Joe Goldberg leaves Los Angeles for new pastures in the Pacific Northwest. When he meets the lovely Mary Kay DiMarco, Joe intensely falls for her. Ready to prove that he is a different man, Joe tries to court her without his usual obsessive acts. After securing a job in a new sleepy town and striving to prove an alternative method of making his next relationship work without meddling, he tries to find his happily ever after. But can Joe really prove that he is capable of change to find himself worthy of true love, or is he set to repeat history, dooming others to an ill-fated end of violence and destruction?
Reception
Sarah Weinman from The New York Times gave a glowing review of the novel, stating that it "continues to work because Kepnes is brilliant at depicting the cognitive dissonance of someone like Joe. His stalkerish behavior steps over the line again and again, but in a way that is all too familiar to any woman menaced or made uncomfortable by the so-called “good guy." No doubt he'll return in future installments, demonstrating the shattered barrier between id and superego."[10]
Sequels
Kepnes published a third sequel, For You and You Only, in 2023.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
^ ab"Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes review – the killer who plays it by the book". The Guardian. 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2019-01-22. Goldberg was last seen in Kepnes's original and excellent debut, You, in which he fell for a customer, leaving a clutch of bodies along the way as he relentlessly stalked her into going out with him. Hidden Bodies opens with Joe having seemingly put the past, and his "tragically ill girlfriend Guinevere Beck", behind him.
^ abKarp, Marcelle (July 11, 2018). "Entre Nous: Caroline Kepnes". Barb Magazine. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2019.