Originally, there was no plan to share their writings and drawings publicly, says Manni. Reuben’s boldly coloured felt-tipped drawings – which include Joseph’s technicoloured dreamcoat, many lions and the lamppost from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – were a means of expression and communication at a time when words were not available. This is not the first time Manni has had to take Reuben out of care. The first was a few years ago when he was sent for a visit to Spain dressed in his pyjamas. “We called it Dirty Sheets,” he says. “And Reubs was obese, massively overweight. You weren’t in a good place, were you Reubs?” Nomi talks about the times Joe was watching her and she caught him, not realizing that Joe had been stalking Mary Kay. Joe keeps trying to convince her that she has misinterpreted things, but Nomi ignores him. He tells her firmly that what Seamus did was wrong, he does not love her and that she does not love him. But Mary Kay walks in as he has her hands on Nomi’s shoulders. Do you love (to hate) Joe? Then you'll love this book. Even if it treads familiar ground and has more than its share of moments where you have to suspend disbelief, you get a heaping helping of the cray that you've been craving.

Joe moves to this cozy island, after leaving his adventurous lives in big Apple and city of Mr. Morningstar, having a big, lovely house, volunteered job in library. You ask “how”, I just shrug, zipping my lips. You gotta read and learn if he quit his full time daddy job!!!!!! When I “wished” for this over on NetGalley, I figured I was doing so along with twelve gazillion others and never expected to get an early shot at this latest release in the You franchise. Then I had one of those seriously first worldy sorts of moments where I wanted to message the powers that be and tell them . . . . Joe tries to convince Ray to let him raise Forty, but Ray shows Joe that he’s seen the footage of Joe burying Melanda. Ray threatens Joe, and Joe has no choice but to sign the papers to give up his rights to Forty.

The Sweet Spot Summary

Kepnes published another sequel, For You and You Only, in 2023. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Synopsis [ edit ] Caroline Kepnes must be some kind of storytelling sorcerer. How else can Joe Goldberg . . . besuch an entertaining narrator?This high-wire narrative act continues to work because Kepnes is brilliant.” — The New York Times Book Review That’s the most enjoyable ride to be inside Joe’s mind: he’s still disturbed, obsessed, sarcastic, criticizer of popular culture but he is still ugly honest, straightforward, direct because he knows himself, what he’s capable of and he already made peace with his inner monster. a b "You author whose books inspired Netflix hit teases new Joe Goldberg novel". The Independent. 2022-11-12 . Retrieved 2022-11-13.

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.” The trouble is . . . Mary Kay already has a life. She's a mother. She's a friend. She's . . . busy. Every night he would do a drawing for me, give me a kiss, whisper ‘night brother’, and then hand it to me upside down, so there was a big reveal,” says Manni. “And that’s how we communicated – he communicated with me through drawing.” 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.I am simply in awe with Caroline Kepnes' ability to make me root for the killer in this series. Yes, Joe is an obsessed stalker who will stop at nothing to have it his way, but everything he does, he does with so much love that we can overlook his homicidal mistakes. 🙈 Because after all Joe is human too, so he makes mistakes like you and me and he has a ton of issues, but in this book he tries so very hard to be good. (he's still disturbed af and it's now clearer than ever before) One night, Love reaches out wanting Joe to come to Los Angeles to see her and their son. Joe is hesitant, but Love knows about his new life and threatens to tell Mary Kay and Noni the truth about his past. Joe knows he has no choice. He’s forced to blow off a weekend away that Mary Kay had planned to go see Love.

He loves the story of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and the world of the Hobbits. But for Reuben it is all real. 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. No more words! I’m giving entire stars of galaxy or rename a planet as Kepnes! This book is beyond five starred reading! The trouble is . . . Mary Kay already has a life. She’s a mother. She’s a friend. She’s . . . busy.

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Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train I didn’t love it but I definitely didn’t hate it. I found it a bit slow at times and some of the repetitiveness got to me. (Murakami, Beef & Broccoli, and Red Bed to name a few). I do wonder if I had read it instead of listening to it, if that would have made a difference.

When Reuben was in the care home, Manni – whose loving zeal is reminiscent of parenthood – decorated his brother’s room with a “huge wallpaper mural of a lion” bought online. And his empathy for Reuben’s outlook is striking. 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.

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge Prompt(s)

There was no shape to our time initially, because we didn’t know how long we would be there together, but I was very aware that Reub’s recovery would be based on structure, and I wanted him to be proactive in his own recovery.