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dark
mysterious
fast-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Drug use, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Addiction
Minor: Death of parent
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dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.0
I received an e-galley of The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto from Sourcebooks Fire via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the second book this year that I requested from a publisher that is part of a series. I had not read The Obsession but was luckily able to find a copy at my local library. I can now say that you do not need to read The Obsession before you get to The New Girl but it will definitely help as characters from the first book appear in this book. Though to be fair, in order to not spoil anything for yourself, it's probably best to read it in the order that it's published even though the events of The New Girl actually happen 3 years before The Obsession.
Okay, The Obsession is not my usual genre that I tend to gravitate towards. I'm not a huge mystery/thriller fan but I was drawn to this one because I really enjoyed Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto. And after reading that book, I should have had a better idea of what I was going to get into with The New Girl and The Obsession. This series centers on events that occur at Draycott Academy, a prestigious boarding school for the rich. In The New Girl, Lia is the new girl as the novel is aptly named. She's transferred to Draycott on a track scholarship and soon finds herself the target of bullying because of her new track team members. As Lia begins to navigate these trials at her new school, she finds that there is a lot of dark secrets that students and staff are hiding. She soon finds herself finding out these secrets in order to secure her place at school.
The New Girl is so intense and dark. I found it so interesting - just all the drama, subterfuge, and conspiracies that these students were getting into. A certain aspect of the story that parrticularly intrigued me is the idea of good people doing bad things. It's a combination of bad timing, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and sometimes just having bad luck. I found that Lia was making choices that were morally wrong - but I couldn't fault her for them completely seeing how she ended up in those particular moments. I think that this is something that Jesse Q. Sutanto really likes to explore in her books - seeing as it is a running theme in all three books that I have read from her so far.
Like I mentioned before, this is not my usual genre but I enjoyed reading The New Girl and Jesse Q. Sutanto continues to be an author that I will keep an eye on for more books.
This is the second book this year that I requested from a publisher that is part of a series. I had not read The Obsession but was luckily able to find a copy at my local library. I can now say that you do not need to read The Obsession before you get to The New Girl but it will definitely help as characters from the first book appear in this book. Though to be fair, in order to not spoil anything for yourself, it's probably best to read it in the order that it's published even though the events of The New Girl actually happen 3 years before The Obsession.
Okay, The Obsession is not my usual genre that I tend to gravitate towards. I'm not a huge mystery/thriller fan but I was drawn to this one because I really enjoyed Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto. And after reading that book, I should have had a better idea of what I was going to get into with The New Girl and The Obsession. This series centers on events that occur at Draycott Academy, a prestigious boarding school for the rich. In The New Girl, Lia is the new girl as the novel is aptly named. She's transferred to Draycott on a track scholarship and soon finds herself the target of bullying because of her new track team members. As Lia begins to navigate these trials at her new school, she finds that there is a lot of dark secrets that students and staff are hiding. She soon finds herself finding out these secrets in order to secure her place at school.
The New Girl is so intense and dark. I found it so interesting - just all the drama, subterfuge, and conspiracies that these students were getting into. A certain aspect of the story that parrticularly intrigued me is the idea of good people doing bad things. It's a combination of bad timing, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and sometimes just having bad luck. I found that Lia was making choices that were morally wrong - but I couldn't fault her for them completely seeing how she ended up in those particular moments. I think that this is something that Jesse Q. Sutanto really likes to explore in her books - seeing as it is a running theme in all three books that I have read from her so far.
Like I mentioned before, this is not my usual genre but I enjoyed reading The New Girl and Jesse Q. Sutanto continues to be an author that I will keep an eye on for more books.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Death of parent
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