You
Caroline Kepnes, 1965
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fictionRomance
A bookseller's charming voice turns obsession into a love story you can't look away from—and can't quite trust.
Feels like dread and wonder. About love and power.
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Why finishing a book feels like a breakup.
The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don’t want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates. Caroline Kepnes.Kepnes was a journalist and Entertainment Weekly writer before her debut novel, You, became a Netflix series.
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- What is You like?
- Feels like dread and wonder. About love and power.
- What should I read after You?
- If you liked You, try A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin), Leather & Lark (Brynne Weaver) and The Ritual (Shantel Tessier).
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What it costs to be the cleverest man in a room that pities you.
You are your mother’s trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he’s never been sure." "I don’t even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
A Game of Thrones · George R.R. Martin
The strange tenderness of being called someone’s catastrophe.
My feckin’ catastrophe,” he says as his thumb coasts across my cheek. “You fucking destroyed me. And now I can’t imagine being anything but the man that I am with you.
Leather & Lark · Brynne Weaver
The famous definition of love, and someone who won't be measured by it.
They say love is patient and kind. I’m not either one of those things when it comes to Blakely.
The Ritual · Shantel Tessier
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