Hidden Bodies (You, #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

Oct 02, 2019 Tammy AZ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

During the first part of the book, I kept reading only because I enjoyed the author's previous book, "You". Unfortunately, it didn't get better but I slogged through because the book met criteria for a reading challenge in which I participate.

Whatever magic occurred with the first book to make it one to gobble up has disappeared here. It felt a bit derivative of Dexter, only if Dexter had no code of killing. The killer has no qualities that make you want to live in his head and the victims are n ...more

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Mar 12, 2018 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: oh-unlikeable-you, fiction, f-ed-up, audio, crime

And this, THIS, is why you have to kill people. If you don't, they don't learn anything, they just re-emerge, more muscled, more manipulative, more hell-bent on taking you down, maneuvering reporters into furthering their agenda, fucking Boston Globe and fucking Danny Fox, I should have refused to give a last name.

I'm sorry to say that this book just didn't grab me the way "You" did. I wavered a lot in how to rate it, finally settling on four stars, because even though I was disappointed, it ...more

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Jun 10, 2025 YoSafBridg rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Kepnes writes Joe's voice incredibly well. I am somehow compelled to keep reading, even though I wouldn't really call him a likeable character (I'm not sure he's entirely unlikeable either-actually he's kind of despicable, but you almost root for him.)
He has a certain kind of charm, or maybe he just knows how to turn a phrase really well (he definitely isn't quite as charming as the television character (and the television character is still a sociopathic, stalking, serial killer-so there's that ...more

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Apr 01, 2017 Rebekah rated it liked it

Shelves: genre-mystery, genre-contemporary, genre-fiction, book-club, genre-suspense

This book is a completely different beast than the first in the series, You. It is completely jarring, as the main character doesn't even have the same voice or seem the same at all. I did not like the first book very much, thought it was so unrealistic and ridiculous and not scary at all. I liked this one a lot more. I thought her portrayal of La La Land was hilarious and enjoyed the characters a lot more. I still don't think this is scary, but some pretty good satire. ...more

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