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What you will see coming is book #4 which I will be on the hunt for. I am torn between 3 and 3.5 stars. This book although slow in parts, is brilliant in other parts.
Seamus Cooley is an old high school friend of Mary Kay’s who owns a hardware store that he inherited from his parents. He’s short and middle aged. He likes to chase younger woman, but is often heartbroken about one 22-year-old girl or another. He’s also a big library donor. Joe tells himself that he won’t hurt Seamus. Later, when Mary Kay and her “bestie”, Melanda, have a girl’s/”women’s” night, Joe is tempted to crash it. But he resists, telling himself that the “good guy” move is to give her some space. Melanda is an English teacher who is also setting up an incubator for young women, set to launch early next year. There are a few turns of the plot that are overly convenient and some resolutions that aren’t entirely satisfying, but in general it’s a fun ride, in a crazy and unpredictable way. Kepnes’s savage takedowns of pretentious blowhards continue to make Joe a more culturally aware Dexter, or perhaps a more romantic and humorous Hannibal, as he pillories the bad taste of his rivals and victims’ LitHub Manni dropped everything in Spain, leaving behind his business, partner and life - unsure when he would be returning - and moved Reuben out of the care home and into an old farm cottage in the UK countryside. For months, Manni's main goal is to help Reuben to rediscover the man he knows he can be, and to carefully map out his future.
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Saying goodbye after their time in the cottage together was desperately painful. But now Reuben says he feels at home there. In a list of “good things” he compiled before moving in, he wrote: “Am home now.” Manni is working on his next book, a prequel to this one, about when they bought the home in Spain. This time the people Joe got involved are more broken, resentful, self destructive; they don’t belong to a big city, living their lives in a small island of Pacific Island which made them feel like more trapped, miserable, regretful.
This book is remarkable. At it's heart, it's a story of two brothers and the friends and family that surround them. Of Manni and Reuben. Reubs has Downs Syndrome, and during covid he was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities. The care system was letting him down - importantly the system, not those tirelessly working within it - and he sent Manni, then living in Spain, an SOS text - 'brother. do. you. love. me.' It’s a nice ‘antidote to the hell scape reality of the world right now’…” That’s me. You’re quoting me. You Love Me (You #3) by Caroline Kepnes is the third book in the series (and Season 3 of the Netflix show “You” will be adapting this book), and it’s scheduled to be released on April 6th 2021. That's it, that's all I'm going to say. I don't want to spoil any of the deliciousness that awaits you. After all, YOU LOVE ME and I don't want to do anything to ruin that. He has always lived in the space between reality and fantasy,” explains Manni of Reuben’s vivid imagination. “I don’t have children, through circumstance, although I would love to have been a father.One of Reuben Coe’s drawings, based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which feature in his new book. Photograph: Manni Coe Creating a structure for their often challenging days together was vital. Their neatly annotated daily diaries form the endpapers of the book, revealing the minutiae of a repeating grid of meals and activities.
It's been an emotional rollercoaster, reading this. A beautiful story told by Manni Coe, with illustrations by his brother Reuben, who has Downs' syndrome. This is their story and I'll be recommending it as much as I can from now on. That was when I realised the power of what we were living through. I knew I wasn’t writing a fairy-tale. There were tiny chinks of moments when I thought we were getting somewhere – when he would give me the most amazing drawings – but it was a belief system, rather than circumstantial evidence.” BUT DESPITE THAT FACT, I still gave it a chance because it was Joe Goldberg. I had my reservations the entire time but I was still powering through it, even if it was missing the humor and wit I was used to. (Seriously, I expected to LOL so many times and it didn't happen.) So how to rate this book???? While it was slow and drawn out in parts for me, there were parts that really worked and when they worked - the book shined. The second half of the book was better and moved faster for me. Plus, there are some interesting supporting characters and a couple of twists that this reader did not see coming! You Love Me is fiendish, fast-paced and very funny!” –Paula Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the TrainCrazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better – and Joe Goldberg gets worse – with every book’ Erin Kelly Compulsively readable . . . There's never been a better time to get acquainted with Kepnes’s dangerously appealing leading man’ Booklist Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
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