You author Caroline Kepnes reveals how her third book will diverge from the Netflix series

Variety

Kepnes says her third book on Joe Goldberg, due out next week, will feel especially resonant amid the pandemic. “None of us are our best social selves right now, and in that way social media is so prescient and maybe deceptive,” she says. “In the book, Joe uses social media in an antisocial way, but he is also using it to look for happiness and love. It’s interesting for me to write, because he’s trying so bad to be a part of things. He doesn’t have that one person to text. It’s that stark loneliness that’s amplified by him being exposed to the life in our feeds.”