Review: The New Girl - Jesse Q. Sutanto

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The New Girl


Review: The New Girl - Jesse Q. Sutanto - February 2022


After reading and enjoying Jesse's book "The Obsession", I was looking forward to reading her next YA thriller - The New Girl. The New Girl though is a bit of a prequel to The Obsession as it runs parallel with some of the pre-storyline of The Obsession. The other thing that I enjoyed with this author is that all her characters are of Asian descent like herself and she has brought the strong Asian-American culture into both books. So, for those who read the first book The Obsession, you will remember it starting with discovering Sophie Tanaka dead and Logan having a new crush on Delilah. In The New Girl, we meet Lia Setiwan - on her first day, she sees a crazed girl being taken away by police, and then she discovers the room she is in was formally the crazy girls. The crazy girl is Sophie Tanaka - Logan's Sophie. While cleaning the room, Lia sees a graffiti scribble that "Mr. Werner is a Liar". What is he lying about though? Lia has won a track scholarship to Draycott Academy but seeing as there are only 4 spots available on track varsity and now 5 girls are vying for spots. Lia becomes a target and if that wasn't bad enough - Mr. Werner hates her and is failing her which means she could lose her scholarship. I have to admit, I really hated with a passion the character of Mr. Werner and would have probably killed him myself. He got what he deserved. I also wondered right through the book if he was a racist jerk as it came across that way. As Lia starts digging to save not only her scholarship but, in the process, discovering what happened to Sophie and what Mr. Werner is hiding - she will find herself falling into a rabbit hole and uncovering the "Dark side of Draycott" and if she isn't careful - she may end up just like Sophie - another dead Asian. If you love diverse YA reads and boarding school thrillers, then you will love The New Girl by Jesse Q Sutanto.

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