Ever get tired of seeing a man stalk a woman and her taking it as a compliment and the story crafting him as a beautiful romantic? Well I know it kills me, and Caroline Kepnes' novel You put stalking, obsessive men in the right light.
Your character Joe starts out as your average bookseller (I immediately bonded over that obviously) who sees a beautiful woman walk in, and does what every bookseller does in that scenario, watches you and judges the books you touch. Being slightly creepy myself, I see no harm in his strong desire to speak to this lass named Guinevere Beck, after their encounter at the register you think, well isn't he kinda cute. Until the next pages come along and you are very wrong. We've all done some social media stalking before, meet a cute guy, get his name, hunt his Facebook, well darling Joe takes it to a new extreme - he finds her Facebook and Twitter and home address and goes to stand outside her house, in full costume so she doesn't recognize him. If that isn't a well thought out romantic plan, I just don't know what is! The story progresses and Beck starts bumping into Joe, what a surprise to see you there! Not really, he followed her, and stole her phone but you'll learn all about how much he needed it. Eventually, as these things tend to do, it spirals out of control - people in Beck's life go missing. As Joe becomes more and more convinced he and Beck were destined to be together and she remains a flighty social butterfly, he gets desperate to maintain his hold on her, no matter what that may take.
If you enjoy Stephen King's Misery or just want to see some light shone on what an obsessive stalker is actually like, you need to run out and get You - it has easily become one of my most favorite novels of this year.
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