Season 2 of Netflix's You dropped on Boxing Day, and unsurprisingly, we haven't done much else since other than binge watch the second series - and read about it afterwards. And as well as creepy theories about Guinevere Beck and annoying endings, we've also been comparing the series to its book counterpart, Hidden Bodies.

Written by Caroline Kepnes and first released in January 2016, Hidden Bodies is the follow up novel to You and the inspiration behind the second season of the Netflix show. And, er, it's safe to say it's faiiiirly different in storyline to the TV adaptation.

Here are 17 of the main differences between the TV show and novel (side note: it gets quite confusing at times, namely because a fair amount of the plot has changed.)

*Spoilers*

In the TV show, Joe moves to LA because he's running from Candace. In the book, he's trying to find Amy Adams, a different character to Candace. She was his girlfriend after Beck and before Love, and she stole rare editions from the bookstore. Unsurprisingly, Joe wants them back - and revenge.

In the second book, Candace doesn't even exist - he killed her in the first book. In the TV show, Candace plays a pivotal role - and is eventually killed by Love.

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Who is ELLIE? Sorry, but she doesn't exist in the book - just like Paco was created in series one as a tool to make Joe seem more normal.

The grocery store Love and Forty's parents own isn't called Anvarin in the book - it's called The Pantry. And Joe doesn't work there - though he does work at a book store with Calvin nearby.

Joe meets Love in Soho House in the book, and she doesn't manage the kitchen of the grocery store like she does in the TV show. She originally isn't actually a cook at all, but her parents do own the whole grocery store chain.

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In the book, Joe doesn't trap Will Bettelheim in the cage, nor does Jasper exist. Actually, Will Bettelheim doesn't exist either - nor does the cage. Joe doesn't change his name, so there's no stolen identity.

Ok, so this is a little complicated, but Joe kills comedian Henderson in the book because of a sketch he performed about Amy - a girl who doesn't exist in the TV show. In the TV show, he kills him because of Ellie - the 15-year-old girl who lives in Joe's block who was hanging out with Henderson.

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Amy Adams and Candace are different people in the book. Candace is dead, and Amy was Joe's girlfriend before Love. In the TV show, Candace pretends to be someone called Amy Adams to get closer to Joe. It's confusing unless you've read and seen both!

Sophia, the babysitter who had a relationship with Forty while he was underage, doesn't exist in the book. Instead, when Love is opening up to Joe, she tells him a story about the puppy who Forty killed when they were younger.

Love doesn't kill Delilah - Joe does. In the books, he kills her in a bathtub when he realises she's on to him about Henderson, whereas in the TV show, Delilah kills her in the cage when she thinks she could ruin her future with Joe.

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Love in the book has a thing about not giving blow jobs. That doesn't seem to be a thing in the TV show.

Milo, Love's dead husband's best friend, doesn't exist in the book. A Milo does exist, but he's Forty and Love's childhood friend who is always around. He isn't Love's rebound in the book, but he is writing a romance movie called Boots and Puppies which he wants Love to be the main character in.

Forty doesn't organise a writing retreat or drug Joe in the book. In fact, Joe writes a lot of Forty's script in secret in the book - and is put out when Forty doesn't credit him. In the book, Joe actually drives Forty out to Las Vegas to kill him - but doesn't succeed.

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In the book, Joe takes Officer Fincher on a wild goose chase out to Mexico to kill him. He pretends to be Megan Fox, traps Fincher in a sound proof recording studio and murders him, when he thinks Fincher is getting closer to finding out the truth about Henderson.

The whole thing about adapting Beck's book into a script in series two of You? That's not a thing in the book. Actually, they're adapting The Third Twin - something which Forty has already written and been a success for in the TV show.

Forty has a girlfriend in the book that doesn't even exist in the TV show. Because Candace doesn't exist in the books, Monica doesn't exist in the TV show.

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In the book, Joe is arrested - and Forty dies in a different way. When Forty finds out about Joe's mass murdering tendencies, he hangs it over his head in return for Joe writing all of his scripts for him. Joe and Love manage to lie their way out of the murders, while Forty is later hit by a drunk driver and dies.

Told you quite a lot had changed.



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