“When did you first realize you’re not normal?” What an opening statement!!

“I think it’s next to impossible to exist in this world as someone who identifies as a woman and not be enraged time and again. This book is the result of all the anger and bitterness as the inequalities of our society.” This quote from the acknowledgments is 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Told in multiple POVs and dual timelines, this book kept me on the edge of my seat! I couldn’t get through it fast enough. I had a hard time finding a likeable character, but that worked for me! I was messaging Jesse as I was reading saying how much fun it was to read the character Jane! She is… a lot!! 😂 Inside her mind is a mess and a treat, filthy, raunchy, witty, self deprecating. I imagine she was a blast to write! The untidy, unexpected ending just made it for me! I immediately messaged Jesse after I finished and then preordered this one! I need a copy for my shelf, I mean the cover 😍 It’s out August 22nd! Thank you @berkleypub for my gifted copy!

Thank you Laurie Elizabeth Flynn for encouraging this book!! Jesse was made to write psychological thrillers and we are all so lucky you pushed her to dive into the genre!!

I loved this book so much. It was chilling and twisty and delicious. Highly recommend. Jesse Sutanto is so, so talented in how she can write in multiple genres!

I really wanted to love this book but unfortunately, it was mediocre to me; I didn’t love it and I didn’t hate it. The book reminded me so much of Yellowface (which I just read and thought was fantastic!) but in reverse. The book was soapy but it dragged a bit. I really liked the premise but thought it could’ve been executed a bit better.

The book is told in multiple POVs and in dual timelines. What Jesse does well is that she made all of the main characters so unlikeable so it was really hard to determine who was good and who was bad. The book had a couple twists in there that I didn’t see coming so that was fun.

I’M NOT DONE WITH YOU releases on August 22. I highly encourage you to check out the book — perhaps you’ll enjoy it more than I did! 3.5⭐️

Thanks so much, @berkleypub and @prhaudio, for the #gifted book and complementary audiobook in exchange for my honest review!💕

Fantastic! I liked the story so much. The writing was very smooth, the characters well defined and the storyline mesmerizing. Eeny meany-miney-mo, quess which is the psycho. My aunt was a psychologist for troubled teens and she told me once it terrified her how many budding psychopaths our society was birthing. That was 20 to 30 years ago. If you like thrillers and are looking to try a new author, I would highly recommend Jesse Sutanto.

Interview with the author forthcoming from Kirkus / August edition

This novel is a fun and twisty thriller about the publishing world. It’s exciting to see Jesse Sutanto’s entree into women-driven thrillers

I’m Not Done with You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto is a stand-alone suspense thriller. I have read and enjoyed all of Jessie Q. Sutanto’s books. I did read this new book, with some mixed feelings, which I will detail later in this review. The story revolves around Jane Morgan, who has always considered herself as a sociopath, even in her early years as a child, with a mother who treated her badly. The story switches back and forth in the current time, where she is a struggling novelist and married; and in the past (9 years earlier) when she attended Creative Writing classes at Oxford.

It is at Oxford, where Jane meets Thalia, who in a very short time, finds herself totally obsessed with her. Thalia befriends the quiet dark Jane, as well as everyone at the school who adored Thalia. Thalia was everything Jane admired, beautiful, charismatic and self-confident; something Jane lacked, always always angry at others. We also meet Ani, who also becomes close friends with Thalia, most to Jane’s annoyance. Jane loved her time at Oxford, with Thalia; until one night when Jane helped Thalia out of a terrible incident, and she has never seen Thalia again until the present time, nine years later.

Jane’s marriage to her husband, Ted, she is not happy, as he is irritating, and she feels trapped; as well as struggling. with the budget. Jane has written two novels, which were not very successful. She sees an advertisement of a New York convention, showcasing the author, Thalia Ashcroft, with a new bestseller. Jane is determined to reconnect at convention in NYC, and will stop at nothing to attend, the SusPensCon event. When Jane was at the University at Oxford, she had the magic touch to write stories, and she wanted to get those vibes back when she met Thalia again.

When Jane manages to push her way into seeing Thalia again, everything changes; as Thalia welcomes her; including Thalia’s sister-in-law, Ani. But things are not what it seems. I’m Not Done with You Yet turns into a twisty cat/mouse plot, with dark twists, shenanigans, that keep you guessing until the end. My mixed feelings revolve around the lead characters, especially Jane, who for most of the book, I frankly did not like; and I also felt the first half did drag a bit.

I’m Not Done with You Yet was an interesting story line, that picked up in the last third of the book, being fast paced and exciting, with some major twists. I am a fan of Jesse Q. Sutanto, but where her other books were fun & entertaining, this one was more of a thriller.

Psychological thrillers aren't always my cup of tea, but I'm glad I took a chance on this one. (I'm also a sucker for anything set in the publishing world.) Plenty of twists and drama kept me turning pages late into the night. This is very different from Dial A for Aunties and I'm super impressed with Sutanto's range! I'll definitely be recommending this. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

Give me a book with a sociopath as one of the main characters and I’m all in, there’s something about a character that just owns who they are, even if it’s dark and disturbed that just really works for me. This book flips back and forth between present day and nine years ago when Jane and Thalia first meet. I get annoyed when there’s some big secret from the past timeline sometimes, especially when the author draws it out to the point of torture but that didn’t happen here which was so refreshing. You find out at an appropriate time what happened in the past and then the story really began to move along at a rapid pace for the remainder of the book. I really liked the direction the author took and was surprised at many of the twists, super solid and well executed. If you like thrillers with unlikable and dark characters with interesting plots try this I had a lot of fun with it.

This book had a Fatal Attraction/ You feel to it, but at times I felt like Jane’s obsession with Thalia was a little too over the top. I also felt the beginning lagged a bit as it was setting things up.

Jesse Q. Sutanto!!!! The genre queen!!! She stole my heart with Vera Wong and left me mind blown with Jane & Thalia. This is a twisty cat and mouse game that leaves you feeling one way and then changing your perspective a second later to then change it back to what you were originally thinking.

She nailed what I am coming to love in thrillers that are releasing which is the obsession trope. With dashes of toxic friendship, mental health and a career in publishing/books. I loved the dual timeline of Jane and Thalia friendship beginning to the present day. It had good pacing and the end snuck up on me quickly!

I feel like there’s not a lot I can say without either misleading people or giving things away. There are some pretty wild twists, including one that took the story I thought I’d been reading and turned it on its head and made me re-evaluate everything I’d read up to that point. I was feeling so-so about the book up until that point – Jane's narration made me uneasy – but from that point on I loved it, so if you’re on the fence about it I can recommend sticking with it until part 3. The book also provides an interesting exploration of sociopathy, obsession, and toxic friendship. I will say that if you don’t like books with an unlikeable narrator/main character, this is not the book for you. This story is rife with them.

4.5 stars, rounded down to 4.

Representation: POC characters, characters with mental illness

CW: Toxic friendship, obsessive and psychopathic first-person narration

Sociopath: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
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Jane Morgan is living a lackluster life with her boring husband and her mediocre writer career. When she sees a NYTimes article about her best friend from college coming out with a new book based on their friendship, it sparks something in her she hasn’t felt since Thalia disappeared from her life years ago. All Jane wants to do now is find Thalia and be around her again, but, like in college, a death ruins everything Jane has planned. All she wants to do is be the best friend she can to Thalia…can’t she see that?
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Wow. I’ve loved @jesseqsutanto since I read Dial A For Aunties (my favorite cozy mystery ever) and I also adore her YA books as well, but this adult thriller was not only a new genre for her, it’s actually bumped up to my favorite of Sutanto’s. It kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat the whole time. Did I want to stay up late to finish & see how it ends? No, I HAD to. This is sure to be a hit when it releases August 22!

CW: death, murder, misogyny, physical assault, blood, prison

This one is told in dual timeline, which I think added to the storyline.

Jane and Thalia met nine years ago while attending a Masters program in writing at Oxford. Their friendship was fast and very intense. It's alluded that something happened, although we don't know what, but they haven't seen each other since then. We are taking along on that timeline.

Currently Jane is married to Ted, but it appears to be a strange relationship. Jane is a struggling author. She stumbles upon the fact that Thalia is now a NY Times best selling author and her book appears to be based on their story.

Jane finds that Thalia will be at a Con in NY soon and decides she is going. And then the story really takes off.

I wasn't sure what to believe in a lot of this one and the twists were wild!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for allowing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Jesse Q. Durango is really out here just trying to corner every aspect of the mystery/thriller genre and I am here for it. This dip into suspense, while vastly different from Dial A for Aunties or Vera Wong, is still a wild, exhilarating, fun ride. I love books that make me go “oh! Of course!” when I figure something out, and I had that a couple of times in this book. And the characters weee just so delightfully twisted. A nice, quick, thrilling read.

I'm giving this three stars, even though I DNF it. It is probably a good book, just not one for me. The book revolves around Jane, who is a sociopath. She is married, but her husband is portrayed as controlling and manipulative (but since the narrator is unreliable, who knows?). She is in love (still) with Thalia, who was in her creative writing master's program many years ago. She decides she'll get to New York to see her at a conference, no matter what she has to do.

I love Sutanto's other books, but this was just too dark for me. I like my books to convey some sort of hope, and this one just depressed me.

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy of this book.

I love the title and the cover of I’m Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto. That’s what grabbed my attention in the first place!

This book centers around the toxic friendship of Jane and Thalia, who were close friends back at Oxford. The problem now, many years later, is that Thalia is a famous writer and Jane is an author who is struggling. This is a dual timeline of the women’s friendship in their university days and the current day.

Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house—a life—she’s never really wanted.

There’s only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane’s best and only friend nearly a decade ago during their Creative Writing days at Oxford. It was the only good year of Jane’s life—cobblestones and books and damp English air, heady wine and sweet cider and Thalia, endless Thalia. But then one night ruined everything. The blood-soaked night that should have bound Thalia to Jane forever but instead made her lose her completely. Thalia disappeared without a trace, and Jane has been unable to find her since.

Until now. Because there she is, her name at the top of the New York Times bestseller list: A Most Pleasant Death by Thalia Ashcroft. When she discovers a post from Thalia on her website about attending a book convention in New York City in a week—“Can’t wait to see you there!”—Jane can’t wait either.

She’ll go to New York City, too, credit card bill be damned. And this time, she will do things right. Jane won’t lose Thalia again.

A twisty, dark novel that is out on August 22!

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC! In I'm Not Done with You Yet, Jesse Q. Sutanto takes a dark turn from the humor that was Dial "A" for Aunties, and delivers a suspenseful tale of intigue. Jane is a struggling writer who feels stuck in her lackluster life. That's when she discovers Thalia, her college obession, is now on the bestseller list and Jane sees this as a sign. As Jane begins to infiltrate Thalia's life, glimpses of the past reveal that not everything is as it seems in the present. Twisting and thoroughly engaging, I'm Not Done with You Yet is the perfect summer suspense!

The brilliant Jesse Q Sutanto has done it again. And by 'it', I mean deliver a deliciously wicked novel that will keep you absolutely riveted the whole time and leave you hungry for more. This is my 7th book by her and truly, she never misses.

There's so much I loved about this twisty thriller:

👊 The author's trademark wit and dark humour

👊 Her insight into the publishing industry e.g. how it's all about 'the market' these days, how being non-white is suddenly the latest trend, author circles and communities and platforms.

👊 Complex female friendships and dynamics
👊 Deep dive into feminine rage, but minus the man-hating
👊 Intriguing exploration of sociopathy and other disorders
👊 Fascinating Oxford setting + unexpected but hilarious mention of Singapore
👊 Cultural insight into Crazy Rich Chinese-Indo families

It's impressive what a versatile writer Sutanto is. The stakes are much higher here than her previous works – and so is the body count 👀

The 3 female leads are well-written and all shine in their own way, keeping me so enthralled that I couldn't help but keep turning the pages. While the first half of the story wasn't exactly a big surprise, things get WILD. I had no idea how it would all play out and loved the way everything unfolded. The last few chapters were so satisfying and I found myself not wanting the book to end!

Jane is struggling with her marriage and her writing career when she sees that Thalia will be at Suspenscon. Since the end of their first semester at Oxford, Thalia has disappeared and it has weighed on Jane since. She knows she needs to get to the con in New York to finally see Thalia and make sure she doesn’t lose her again.

Dear @Jesseqsutanto - I need a sequel to this one like…yesterday! Seriously how you gonna end this book like that on me? If this isn’t a planned series we are going to have to have a talk friend! For real though, Jesse Q. Sutanto can do no wrong. Every book she writes is just fantastic and with how quickly she puts them out, I really can’t complain about having to wait for the next! This book was the toxic of all toxic friendships from page one and I could not stop reading. My heart certainly went out to Jane because she was so obviously self conscious, but I also wanted to shake her sometimes when she fell under Thalia’s spell. This book switches between current day and their time at college which helped really drive home how toxic these girls were. I don’t want to give too much of the story away but I highly recommend this one!

It’s not every book that can have a self described sociopath as its main character and work. But I’m Not Done With You Yet drew me in right from the first pages and kept me engaged throughout. Jane is equal parts lacking in self-confidence, obsessed and festering with anger. This is one of those books that totally gets the creep factor right.
Jane and Thalia met nine years ago at a MBA writing course at Oxford. Thalia was everything Jane was not - beautiful, charismatic and self assured. The book flips back and forth between then and now. Now, Thalia has written the current blockbuster, while Jane is a midlist writer, barely getting low four figure advances for her books. But Jane is determined to reconnect at a big suspense/mystery convention in NYC.
I loved that in the beginning, I was thinking how I really related to Jane. But as the book goes on, I was pulling back, thinking, no, this gal is bat-sh** crazy. And then, there are several nice twists. It becomes absolutely deliciously devious.
This is a fun, entertaining story for those who have a penchant for dark characters.
My thanks to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing for an advance copy of this book.