Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
My Review
Well shit…
I can’t ruin the ending, at least not up here, but dang I wish I wasn’t left so up in the air!
Ugh… but anyways: Hidaden Bodies. It’s a slightly different change of pace from You. Joe has found what he actually believes is love in a new girlfriend, so he feels he can move on from CandaceBenjiPeachBeck, the infamous mugofurine, and be happy. For real this time.
But Joe should’ve known better.
What started as a path of redemption quickly turns into a path of revenge, which leads Joe on a completely different course on the other side of the country. I was rooting for Goldberg; he seemed to really be trying to do things differently; not be so kill happy like he was in New York. But in a not-so-much-of-a-spoiler alert, that part of him isn’t completely gone. The Joe we’ve come to secretly like isn’t totally reformed. Because like it says in the blurb: “The problem with hidden bodies is that they don’t always stay that way.”
Final Rating: 4.5 Stars
Comments & Side Notes
§ That would be a fun game to play with a group of friends. Buying old college tees from Goodwill then wearing them out and about pretending that you actually go to that university.
§ Props to Amy: I can't believe she played Joe. Like that's Oscar worthy right there! I just hope that somewhere deep down inside she knows that Joe won't just let that go.
§ There a reference to Fast & Furious at the start of Chapter 7! I'm just mostly excited that Joe is referencing something I actually have some knowledge about. RIP Paul Walker
§ Goldberg’s new nickname for Amy is Supercunt.. hahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Y'all I CAN’T!!
§ Chapter 48: He CONFESSED practically EVERYTHING to his girlfriend! I’m proud of him for finally being honest, but I was nervous for him. And his GF had every right to walk right on out afterward but she didn’t, so I’m just like holy hell… Joe didn’t scare her off which means he won’t have to kill her since she knows too much. (Idk if he would or not but I wouldn’t put it past him)
§ Love is a true ride or die. Bonnie to Joe’s Claude
§ So about this ending. I know it’s what Joe deserves after ALL he has done but damn! My boy is a changed man finally. Like HE DIDN"T KILL AMY! The main reason why he ended up in LA in the first place! He tried, yes, but in the end let her go. He let it all go. All ready to live happily with Love and their unborn CHILD then out of nowhere he gets arrested and we’re left wondering how long he’s away for or if he’ll ever even get out at all.
Quotable Highlights
(Of course I’ve followed her and I occasionally look in her phone. I have to know that she isn’t lying.) -p. 9
Glad to know Joe is still Joe. For a second I thought he'd actually change....*cue fits of laughter*
“Word of advice,” he begins. “Get your dick sucked.” -Mr. Mooney p. 39
Well all righty then, Mr. Mooney
There is a pool – I could hold Amy under the water – and there is a hot tub – I could boil the bitch – and there is game room – I can choke her with a pool stick […] -p. 43
“I could boil the bitch” hahahaha!!! DAMN Joe!
You suck a good dick. But you’re not special. You’re dead. -p. 44
In the famous words of Smokey & Craig from Friday: "Daaammmnnnn!!"
I go into Delilah’s bathroom, a carbon copy of my bathroom, a windowless vestibule, hell within hell. I take a shit. I don’t flush. I leave. An hour later, she texts me: I love that my bathroom still smells like you. -p. 105-106
That’s fucking disgusting.
And then I read the worst sentence I have ever read in any newspaper:
Dr. Angevine concedes that he is not a detective. “But I do wonder,” he says. “Did Patient X find me through Guinevere Beck? In my gut, I think he did.” -p. 213
Awww shit….
And fuck doctor-patient confidentially, because in the thirty-two comments below, some asshoole named Adan Mayweather reveals that Patient X went by the name of Danny Fox, and this, this is why you have to kill people. -p. 214
It's understandable in Joe logic, but really bruh.. SMH
I’m ready to go and I reached for Delilah. But she’s not here. I rub the sleep out of my eyes and head toward the bathroom and there she is, […]
And in her hand is a reusable Pantry bag, my reusable Pantry bag, the one I brought to Henderson’s. -p. 232
Crap...here we go again
…thank God that I am me, that I didn’t get sick like this, […] and pry into places where I don’t belong. -p. 292
Weeellllll....technically you did but I'll let that side since I'm on #TeamJoe now
Her Facebook and Twitter are private but her pussy, apparently, is open. -p. 353
He sure has a way with words
I’ve never harmed an animal, I can’t imagine being that sort of monster. -p. 368
Of all the screwed up stuff Joe’s done, he’s right. It takes a certain kind of monster to hurt an animal
I was very good at killing people when I needed to be.
Was. The past tense. I’m retired. -p. 437
I didn't realize that that was something he'd consider to be a profession. But it’s about time