I picked this book up because someone I follow on goodreads (Emma) was raving about it.

I'm kind of mortified because when I took it back to the library one of my coworkers was like, "Ooo, interesting" and took it home and now I'm worried she's going to think I'm a sociopath. Especially after I convinced her to check out Krampus because "it's my favorite Christmas movie."

ANYWAY. I keep trying to figure out how to describe this book, and the only thing I can really think to say is that I feel like the protagonist in this book isn't Joe, it's Narcissism itself. Every character in this book is a giant narcissist, or at least it seems that way looking at everyone through the filter of Joe's inner monologue.

The entire book is Joe thinking as if he's explaining everything he does to this woman he's obsessed with. The book starts the moment she walks through the door and he sees her for the first time. And knowing nothing about her he begins this campaign to figure her out and become her boyfriend. He's willing to be and do anything to make it happen, and you as the reader understand what is happening, but the woman he's stalking doesn't have the benefit of hearing his thoughts. And it's so. real.

Definitely don't read this book if you're the paranoid type, because this book will give you serious trust issues. Or maybe do read it, so if you're ever around someone and they start to sound like Joe you know to RUN. Because Joe may be fictional, but his mentality isn't.

(Also, I just read that Caroline Kepnes was a writer for 7th Heaven. XD I wish I'd known that before I started reading this because that is hilarious.)