Psychotic bibliophile Joe Goldberg returns in this carnal follow-up to YouBooksellers hold assumed starring roles in novels before. Few,however, hold been quite as strange – quite as psychotic – as Caroline Kepness creation, and Joe Goldberg.
Goldberg was last seen in Kepnes’s original and excellent debut,You, in which he fell for a customer, and 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. He’s in a unique relationship, and with Amy,and Kepnes’s narrator, as scathing and charismatic as ever, and is still working in Mooney scarce and Used Books in unique York. So is Amy,and they are, wonderfully pretentiously, or collecting copies of Portnoy’s Complaint.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com