History Literature / YouKepnes

* DrivenByALoveInterest: Given that Joe is a StalkerWithACrush, it's a defining part of his personality in each of the books. However, ''Literature/YouKepnes'' paints the largest example of this trait as Joe restructures his whole life around Beck once meeting her...once. He follows her all the time, watches movies she likes, and reads books she likes. At the end, Joe decides he'll attend NYU and study in order to be able to get a better job and provide for Beck. [[spoiler:By thart point, she's already found out about his stalking and he murders her.]]

''You'' is a thriller novel written by Creator/CarolineKepnes.

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Unrelated to]] ''Literature/{{You}}'', a 2013 novel about a game development company.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Joe fires Curtis when the latter gives his home address to Beck, Curtis later returns with friends who beat the daylights out of Joe. Even Joe admits he's had a beating coming for a long time.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Beck masturbates very frequently, and often uses a green pillow that becomes a piece of Joe's obsession. Joe also can't keep his hands off of himself with thinking about Beck [[spoiler:and he later finds risque photos of Beck that Peach had secretly taken and realizes that Peach masturbates regularly to them.]] Dr. Nicky also becomes obsessed with Beck and notes that he locks himself in his laundry room in order to masturbate while thinking of her.

** UpToEleven in the end for Joe. [[spoiler:After Beck discovers the box of items he's stolen from her, he thinks ''he's'' the one who deserves a groveling apology, because Beck had to snoop to find it. Afterwards, even when knocking her unconscious and imprisoning her, he considers himself the victim and requires Beck to correct her behavior. Even after murdering her, he's only consumed with how ''his'' life is going to be hard without her.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Joe kills Beck, is never arrested for his crimes, and it's implied that he finds a new obsession.]]
* BetaCouple: Ethan and Blythe. Joe frequently finds himself competing with their relationship and eventually grows frustrated when he realizes that Ethan and Blythe, for all their issues, have a genuinely stronger relationship than the whirlwind passion of the fling between him and Beck. Blythe may be rude and condescending and Ethan may be a doorma of a NiceGuy, but apparently they do get along marvelously, and they're more mature about their relationship than the MadLove Joe is. [[spoiler:And in the end, they move in together and get married while Joe is left to go after his next victim.]]

** Beck is far from the helpless damsel Joe often believes her to be. Joe's acquisition of her phone allows him to see how often she lies, plays nice, or uses sex to get out of a situation or to get what she wants. Benji even tells him she's a GoldDigger who's just looking for a rich husband. Her "first date" with Joe only happens because she tries to essentially hire free labor from Craigslist for an Ikea trip and then enlists Joe when it's clear it won't be possible. [[spoiler:The only reason she still talks to the father she loathes is because he bankrolls her lifestyle, and later she uses her affair witih Dr. Nicky to fuck with the latter's family life.]]

* irrorCharacter: Joe and Peach absolutely loathe each other: Joe thinks she's a pretentious, vapid, cruel rich girl while Peach is condescending towards Joe, who she considers a poor and uneducated hick Beck is making a mistake with. Neither seems to grasp that they're judgmental, caustic, friendless people whose obsessions with Beck are rooted in a lack of love in their childhoods.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Beck and Peach share a sickeningly close, cuddly, almost codependent relationship that her other friends look at sideways. [[spoiler:Ultimately deconstructed when it becomes increasingly clear that Peach has an obsessive, psychotic crush on Beck, and Beck is playing into what Peach wants because Peach offers her privileges that other friends don't.]]

* VillainProtagonist: The story is told from Joe's perspective and he always uses [[TitleDrop "you"]] when talking about or to Beck.

''You'' is a thriller novel written by Caroline Kepnes.

* NotSoDifferent: Joe and Peach absolutely loathe each other: Joe thinks she's a pretentious, vapid, cruel rich girl while Peach is condescending towards Joe, who she considers a poor and uneducated hick Beck is making a mistake with. Neither seems to grasp that they're judgmental, caustic, friendless people whose obsessions with Beck are rooted in a lack of love in their childhoods.

* YouExclamation: Peach does this when she realizes that Joe is Beck's stalker. Also qualifies as FamousLastWords.