Discuss the importance of family in this novel.ħ. Would you say that Love and Forty Quinn have a codependent relationship or a close sibling relationship? Consider also Forty’s “script,” The Third Twin. Do you have to “like” the people to like the book?Ħ. Does this affect your feelings when he commits murder? Discuss the concept of likability in literature. In both books, You and Hidden Bodies, Joe meets what many describe as “unlikable” characters. Explain your thoughts on this rationalization.ĥ. What did you think about the level of detail involved here? Joe feels that he is ultimately sparing them both from pain. Joe is particularly brutal in his murders of Henderson and Delilah. How do dreams help us and hinder different characters in the novel?Ĥ. He says that he doesn’t want to “catch aspirations.” And then, one could argue, that’s exactly what happens. When Joe moves to Los Angeles, he is surrounded by people with aspirations who haven’t achieved success in the film industry. Joe Goldberg is often described as a “charming psychopath.” Did you find that you rooted for Joe? At which points, if ever, were you rooting for him? At which points did you feel uncomfortable?ģ. Were you surprised that he gives her keys? Do you think love/success requires a leap of trust?Ģ. This is the first of other “deals” he makes. In the first chapter of Hidden Bodies, Joe attempts to please his girlfriend, Amy, with flowers. But if she ever finds out what he’s done, he may not have a choice… Reading Group Guideġ. He doesn’t want to hurt his new girlfriend-he wants to be with her forever. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he’s more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. They reemerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: true love. The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can’t stop looking over his shoulder. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. In Hidden Bodies, the basis for season two of the hit Netflix series, You, Joe Goldberg returns. In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.”

“Obsessed.” -Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author “Delicious and insane.The plot may be twisty and scintillating, but it ’s Kepnes’s wit and style that keep you coming back.” -Lena Dunham “Kepnes hits the mark, cuts deep, and twists the knife.” - Entertainment Weekly THE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING YOU

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