CW: R-slur, anti-semitism,

Spoiler

pedophilia

This was a wild ride. The last quarter got a bit “too much” even for the world of Joe but overall I still loved it. Somehow I’m rooting for the bad guy in all of this


Though I do agree that this really wasn’t a Thriller the way You was, i feel like Hidden Bodies was also more thrilling than this. This was ..... somehow lower stakes. Like for the first time I felt like Kepnes WANTED us to like Joe. In the first two installments I hated him but was low key rooting for him anyway. This time I actually genuinely felt like he was in situations that he didn’t entirely create. (Hes still guilty of being an overall bad and shady person... but this time it’s not ALL his fault)


My biggest disappointment was the lack of consequence. Which is where it felt less thrilling. Every time something Big happened it really kind of just went away in favor of the domestic drama it created. Whereas before we spent a lot of time feeling like Joe watching over his shoulder trying to determine if he’d get caught.


Nonetheless this was a good story, I was engaged the entire time and wanting to know how it ended. Tho I wouldn’t have minded more Thriller to it and a bit less Pining.

Just want to throw in an Edit on 6/23 i got approved from NetGalley for this title (little bit late there) so shoutout to that, even if I'd already read and reviewed previously