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 ...

Review: The Obsession - Jesse Q. Sutanto - February 2021 Ever since I first saw the cover of this book, I knew I wanted to read it as it drew me in and I also loved the sound of the story. Other than that, I went in blind which for me - tends to make me enjoy the story more so than if I had an idea as that's when I get disappointed. The book was a little confusing, to begin with, and we are presented with Logan who is back at High School this semester and ready for a fresh start. We learn that Logan had a "secret relationship", though as we will discover Logan's feelings tend to run more one-sided with a girl named Sophie. Sophie then died and Logan spiraled out of control. Now he's back for a fresh new year and it looks like a new girl in his sights - Delilah. Delilah is new at school and lives with her mum and her mum's abusive cop boyfriend Brandon. Delilah is Sophie's doppelganger and now Logan wants to date her and so his weird stalkerish behavior com...