Review | You- Caroline Kepnes

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Resenha | Você- Caroline Kepnes 1You. Here is a book that has a rather boring title to search for information on the internet. But well chosen by its author. The title is even a joke, since during its several lines, the number of times that simple word is written has been lost. And that in many times, it seems to be the reader himself.

Initially focused on a Stalker, Joe, who clings to Beck, the work ends up going much further than that and analyzes the psychological of all the characters, from Joe's obsessive behavior - who falls in love only for having had some kind of Beck's attention and starts looking for her on all social networks using only the name shown on the credit card during a purchase - even young college students who spend a good part of their life on the spree, running after broken relationships and using false arguments to get attention.

Each of these characters mentioned has an important role in the plot, showing various faces of psychological disorders, which nowadays have become common in society. Caroline Kepnes make no mistake in introducing these people, bringing very well constructed characters. Their personalities or lack of them, have a “what” of problems ranging from touch to obsession.

Of course, the focus is still on Joe's obsession, who is unhealthy at various times and quickly becomes violent. It is at these times that the author's narrative makes some mistakes. In many situations we realize that Joe is obsessive, that's all, and not a sociopath. However, Kepnes, who until then was showing a very well explained picture of this disorder, contradicts himself and puts behaviors that are typical of serial killers in him, like constantly thinking about sex, and in these cases trauma is usually necessary to manifest this type of behavior, thing that Joe doesn't have.

Sometimes the reading ends up getting a little confusing, because out of nowhere the deep behavioral analysis ends and Joe narrates the events quickly and over the top, as they are in some deaths. It doesn't get to be incomprehensible, but it contrasts with the long scenes where he is impeccably preparing his actions, just to quote the outcome quickly and almost thoughtlessly.

However, these are the only problems of the work. You he plunges into the heart of people who have obsession disorders, who live only for the sake of others and who end up doing themselves more harm than they do. Of course, there is something harmful in this story for those who are next to the character that he is so obsessed with - and does not want. Desire and obsession are treated as distinct forms, where desire would end quickly in the first sex, but obsession does not. Obsession keeps the person trapped inside, making them live inside a cubicle where only they and the person they want can fit. Nothing else can fit there. No other people, let alone dreams.

The disorder is so strong that it causes the individual to doubt himself, going to the point of mutilating himself when his plans fail, because he feels unworthy when he thinks he has failed with the other. Or chase her not just through the streets, but through social media, taking out her cell phone and in other ways. Not wanting to know what she does, but with whom she will meet, talk or so many other things that go through the persecutor's fertile imagination. All of this in such a justified way in the person's head, that he convinces himself that he is helping, that he even frightens by pointing out that almost all of us have this behavior, even on a smaller scale.

In your mind, that person is always cheating on you, even if they have nothing.
And the author shows this not only through a man's obsession with a woman. But in all relationships, even the best friend. And also of the persecuted character, who has his own disorders.

You it is a book that can talk about "you reader", about problems that "you" have gone through or just a fiction. It stands for your way of interpreting. All this without taking away the warning of the dangers of social networks and taking to the extreme the attitudes that a stalker can take to reach those he needs.

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