P&P Live! Caroline Kepnes | YOU LOVE ME with Nicola & David Yoon

 

Tonight I had the pleasure of joining P&P Live, with Caroline Kepnes on the launch of her latest "YOU" novel, You Love me. This series has been one of my can't put it down, read it in one sitting, gotta have more, go to and grab it day of launch novels. I can't wait to see how this next book unfolds. I'm so excited where she takes us next on the adventure of Joe. And I am even more anxious for the continuation of the You Netflix series. Confession, I have the biggest crush on Penn Badgley. He can stalk me any time!! 

Kepnes conversed with Nicola and David Yoon. Nicola is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Sun Is Also a Star and Everything, Everything, her debut novel that was turned into a major motion picture. David Yoon is the author of the New York Times bestseller Frankly in Love, and he also drew the illustrations for Everything, Everything.

Music moments sparked her to go back to his world. Kepnes hadn't written about Joe since 2016. Revisiting his world this year is when she finalized the book, she felt like the "fucker Joe finally got her in his cage" (due to the pandemic)...

Caroline feels like when she writes him, she really gets in his head. She sees him and thinks him. You hear how he sees these individual characters in the book. You see the world through "Joe's eyes". Where as in the show, you're seeing it differently and not through his unique lenses but just everyone's world as it exists. 

The show and the book have gone down different paths. But that won't stop either part from unfolding farther. Book 4 and draft 1, was finished in December. *SQUEAL!!*

About The Book: 

Joe is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.

He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way...by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.

The trouble is...Mary Kay already has a life. She's a mother. She's a friend....she's busy. 

True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He’s ready. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kay will do the right thing and make room for him.

Joe feels that love is always an opportunity to rewrite your story to see it in a different light. So the question of the night is, how will he rewrite these character's lives? I can't wait to dive in and find out what happens next...

Posted by book lover: Brittany P.