Hidden Bodies: The sequel to Netflix smash hit YOU: Volume 2 (YOU series)

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Every other book I actually finished and awarded one star and every other book I never finished because it sucked. I fold into myself and now she gets my tailbone and I retreat and now that fucking foot jabs me in my belly. The characters of You were all equally flawed and infuriating, but they brought something to the story. He is still the same crazy and unhinged, batshit psychopath that we remember and this time around, I felt like I got a lot more out of him and his screwed up, demented principles.

The SINGULAR decent part of Hidden Bodies is when the storyline does cross over back to the events of You (Despite being a sequel, the premise of book two doesn’t actually have much to do with the actual events of book one for a lot of the story).While I enjoyed several parts of it, it doesn't hold a candle to the first book and I'll explain why below. There was no chemistry, nothing from Joe’s end to suggest he felt more than attracted towards them, yet the author attempts to fabricate this nonexistent emotion from Joe. The book starts with Joe falling for a girl, she doesn’t love him, she screws him over so he goes out for revenge. A. brings to mind the American Psycho narrator's cynical views, and Joe's twisted attempts at relationships will appeal to fans of Dexter .

This is a brilliant psychological thriller with a totally f*cked up character that I absolutely adore. I mostly want movies and tv shows to be exact copies of their source material, like all book lovers of course. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy this one as much as "You", I felt like Joe was less exciting to read about, also the 2nd person style narration that I absolutely loved in the first book was gone and the whole journey felt too long.The future is a frontier we can’t fully explore until we make it there, but then we arrive, and the distant horizon has become something else, something less romantic.

Or maybe not, when she robs him and takes off to Hollywood, Joe decides he has to find her, they were happy and he loved her, why would she do this?

The way the plot was going, I didn't know what to expect but suffice it to say I did not expect THAT. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.