PROVIDENCE

For all the reviews of people saying this is no Joe and Genevieve book. Three words for you. "You're Absolutely Right." It's not a Joe and Genevieve book, that’s the point! If You want another Joe and Chloe book, then you're just going to have to wait for the third installment. An author is allowed to write about other characters in a completely different world then their best sellers. This is a book about, Jon, Chloe, and Eggs and it is fantastic!Before reading Providence, I had taken a hiatus on book reading. It had been over four years since I read a book that I could pick up and not want to put back. I hadn't read a book that had connected to me on an emotional level in such a long time. Originally, I had bought the book as a joke. My boyfriend kept telling me that I need to finish at least one of the many books I had bought over the years. We had recently binged watched season 2 of You and so I was looking up Caroline Kepnes books. I imagined me reading the You series and thinking "I like the show, I should be able to read the series no biggie." BUT I have a type like most readers do, and my type of book is supernatural. I live in and breath a good book about vampires, witches, werewolves, etc. Naturally I was on the fence on reading You, since it is not my preferred genre. But that’s not what drew me to Providence. The title itself caught my eyes.I grew up in the capital of the smallest state in the United States, Providence, Rhode Island. I went into this book just buying it as a statement piece. I did not read a single review, or even what it was about. All I knew, was the cover felt like home. I wanted it for my collection, memorabilia from my childhood. I didn't think that it would take place in the city I grew up. I didn’t think I would fall in love with the story. I read (or should I say started) so many books over the past years and each one I put down and just couldn’t finish them. I didn't think after turning page by page that I would recognize street names, or my high school or even our greatest attraction for tourist, the Water Fires. I smiled at every reference to home that was brought up in the book. No one knows Providence, or even Rhode Island unless you have lived there. But the book takes place in more then just little old Rhode Island. Any New Englander can find home in this book.Any who on to the book. . .THIS IS A SPOILER FREE REVIEW!If you enjoy supernatural beings, destiny, love, family, and friendship, then THIS is the book for you! Right off the back you are rooting for Jon. You love him. You want him to have the world, because he deserves it! He is genuine, and real, a lost soul in a world filled of broken people. He wants to love, he wants to live and at a young age that is all taken from him. You want Jon to be victorious at the end. He doesn't deserve the cards he has been dealt. Each section that features Jon, you long for his redemption, and each page you turn you find that Caroline Kepnes is NOT going to give us what we want so easily. Just like Jon, we need to work for it.Then there is Chloe, a broken girl. A girl that is too ashamed to admit she loves the boy that everyone picks on. A girl that would do anything just to have that boy. She is strong in her own way and you get to see her blossom into a beautiful woman by the end of the book. But my favorite part about Chloe's chapters are you get to feel all her pain. You understand that no matter what, she will always love . . . him. Chloe is not just any girl. She is a girl so in love with something she can't have that she tortures herself for the fantasy of it. A hopeless romantic and she uses her pain to create masterpieces.Good ol' Eggs. A middle-aged man so determined to solve a mystery that his pride doesn't see what’s happening around him. His world is falling apart, and no one can tell him he is wrong. Eggs is the type of man that will risk even the loss of his family if it means he has proven to everyone that he was right. To him that is worth the sacrifice. He wants to figure out what is happening in Providence. He knows that not everything is what it appears to be. You want to hate Eggs, but by the end of the story if Eggs doesn't make you cry than one question . . . Are you even human?I give this book a 5-star rating because that’s what it deserves. I couldn't put this book down. I read 200 pages the first. It was so good that I refused to continue reading it because I didn't want it to end. After a two-week break, I put my stubbornness aside and finished the book. If you plan on reading this book after You. Put You out of your mind because this book will pull at your heart strings in ways I couldn't imagine, and I am longing for a sequel.

I have read both previous novels by Ms. Kepnes and really enjoy her writing style. Bought this item from wordery and am pleased with the speed and the quality of the book and would recommend this seller. I would buy from them again.

Buen libro. Me gusta mucho el estilo de escritura de Caroline Kepnes.

Bellissimo.Mi piace sia la scrittrice che il genere.Lo consiglio vivamente.