I am a bit of an outlier for my rating on this one. It seems to be loved by many. There was a lot going on in the story and at times was hard to follow. It jumped around quite a bit. It seemed the author wanted to address many topics and at times it became mishmash. I did enjoy the underlying topics of mental health and generational trauma. The author does a fantastic job at character development and that's where this story really shines. Part 1 of the book was a little slow moving, but things pick up in Part 2 and 3. The twist was somewhat predictable, but still enjoyable. While this book wasn't a favorite of mine, I think this story will be enjoyed by many.

Thanks to Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Dutton, Dutton for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A unique Vietnamese-American thriller! A slow burn but definitely worth the read! Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I thought this was a really good psychological thriller. Annie's elderly mother has died and there seem to be questions as to Annie's cuplability. The book delves into Annie's backstory and life with a mentally ill, traumatized and abusive parent. Annie is unraveling as symptoms of her OCD increasingly interfere with her marriage, her ability to parent and her career as an artist. Her struggle to separate paranoia from real threats to her safety are made increasingly difficult as her mental health appdeteriorates.

This was sometimes a difficult read due to the very realistic descriptions of the all-encompassing nature of Annie's illness, compounded by her self-destructive inner voice reflecting the lifeling criticisms of her mother. Ultimately, it was a satisfying thriller and I look froward to more from this author.

I loved this! I couldn’t put it down and finished in one sitting, I thought I knew what was going to happen but I was so wrong. 10/10. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book tells the story of three generations of Vietnamese-American woman/girls. Thought it started slow but holy moly by the end was happy I pushed through and continued reading it!



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You Know What You Did follows Annie, who was born in the US after her mother fled Vietnam. Now she's married to the perfect man living a comfortable life as an artist with a teenaged daughter. While her life looks picture perfect things are of course not what they seem she suffers from OCD which is becoming increasingly worse since her mother died recently. Things begin to unravel for her and she starts not being able to tell the difference between what's real and what isn't all while struggling with her relationship with her daughter and with the memories of her relationship with her mother. I wasn't sure at first where this book was going but once I was about half way through I couldn't put it down. Rating this one 3/3.5 stars while I did start to figure out what was going on it was still a fun ride to get there. I want to thank NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Dutton for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Debut author, K.T. Nguyen has written a psychological thriller full of unease. Anh A.K.A Annie is a complicated mess. She suffers from OCD and anxiety to the extreme. Annie’s story is one of survival. Survival through each waking moment and even her nightmares. Annie’s demons are both real and imagined. These demons invaded space in my brain, made my skin itch, and got trapped in my bones.
This novel is not for the weak of heart or stomach. I cringed many times.
Many times.
Anh’s twisted relationship with her mother, Me, is central to the novel. Me's a survivor in her own right. Her immigration story is a living hell and that makes Anh - her only daughter - her target for physical and mental abuse. Even after Me dies, Anh hears and smells her as if she is still there - a ghost or an entity ordering her around, telling her she's useless. This relationship drives the story and outcome. 
I know what you did.

Anh's life is focused around her devoted husband and bitchy teenage daughter who finds her mother an embarrassment. Anh’s need to be clean and her phobias make it difficult to lead a normal life. Many characters add to Anh's anxiety, and she is never sure what is real or imagined. Who's out to get her? 
Her life gets more difficult when she is suspected of the murder of an eccentric elderly woman whom she has a strange relationship with. Anh has worked on special art projects for Byrdie and their relationship is somewhat toxic. As the police investigation ramps up and her marriage and life begin to fall apart, so does the tension and I could not stop reading.
I know what you did.
I had my suspicions, I had my doubts. I didn't know what was real or in the main character's imagination. Nguyen’s twisted and clever writing made me believe one thing to find out I was wrong. Nguyen expertly weaved past crimes and incidents - I know what you did - into the story.

Evocative writing, maddening tension, and anxiety-inducing chapters made this a fast read. It also made me aware of the symptoms of OCD and how hard it is to live a normal life full of triggers everywhere. I was not surprised that Nguyen admits to having OCD to which I applaud.
This novel made me question reality and I found myself relating to Anh in more ways than I ever would have imagined.
Thank you Netgalley and Dutton books and K.T. Nguyen for the chance to read this advance copy.

I know what you did! I know what you did! I know what you did!

3.5 stars. K.T. Nguyen's YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID is a compulsively readable psychological thriller that I devoured in two days. While I predicted the ending, I found the commentary on generational trauma and mother/daughter relationships to be both real and poignant. I was also interested in the psychological effects of being forced to immigrate from a war torn country and how trauma like that can easily poison the most important relationships in your life, including the one with yourself. Sadly, generational trauma will always be so relatable.

The tagline for this book is: "If thoughts could kill...", and I couldn't think of a better way to sum up this story. You really descend into the protagonist's obsessive and paranoid thoughts in a way that will have you questioning everyone's motives, including hers. It's all uncomfortable, unsettling and unreliable which is why the mystery is so rich throughout MOST of this book because you don't know whether or not to believe Annie. That said, while YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID sets up many questions, I'm not sure that I bought the answers and was left wanting more.

OCD, various phobias and other mental illnesses are discussed so you might want to tread lightly if that triggers you or is too close to home. I'm personally triggered by hot showers now. So there's that! Special thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group/Dutton for the ARC!

This was definitely twisty and unexpected and I loved every minute of it. Its a bit of a slow burn thriller and at times I had no idea what was going on nor what I was supposed to believe. I wish it had been a tad bit shorter but the writing was fantastic. Everyone should keep eye out for this authors future work.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for this arc.

This was a very good thriller. It was a wild ride. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

Engaging and well written. I really enjoyed this thriller. The mental health representation was really well done. I also appreciated the portrayal of the refugee experience. Highly recommend this new voice. Looking forward to reading more from this author.





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This was my first by this author and I am sure I will be reading more in the future.

This thriller is a slow burn, interesting, twisty, daughter and mother traumas from the past and their relationships. Intense.

Thank you NetGalley and Dutton Books for this ARC in an exchange for my honest review.

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This was a different kind of thriller for me. It’s a book about how the main character’s OCD was triggers after the passing of her mother. I enjoyed it for the most part and look forward to reading more from this author!

I don't mind an unreliable narrator but I felt like something was off the first quarter of the book and wanted to know more so the book felt like it started off slow. It picked up but it was a struggle to want to keep reading at first.

The OCD aspect was an interesting twist on the usual mystery thriller and was quite vivid. I don't know if this is a book for the squeamish! I also think the focus was really just one woman, not three like the blurb suggested. I kept thinking it would switch up but then it really didn't.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton, Dutton for this ARC of You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen.

What did Annie do???

Though the question - titled as a statement - is regularly peppered into this story, we do not learn the answer until the very end of this suspenseful tale of betrayal, family secrets, “hereditary trauma” between mothers and daughters, and psychological control.

I really enjoy books featuring first-hand accounts of mental illness and this book so well illuminates the horror of living with OCD. “It tricks your brain into thinking you can control everything through magical thinking and tricks.”
If one were not empathetic toward the reality of loss of control of OCD it would be easy to become frustrated with Annie as she suffered under its mental control along with incapacitating guilt over the death of her mother.

The book’s thrills come from how Annie was manipulated - both physically and emotionally - and gaslighted into thinking she was more mentally ill than she really was.

I cheered for Annie’s breaking point via “exposure therapy” toward the end of her ordeal at the jail. Finally she could be mentally free. At least once she dealt with her marriage.

I never guessed at the twist, which provided a satisfying if horrifying culmination to the mystery of Annie’s life and mind.

What did Annie do??? She saved herself.

Five stars!

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Wow! I was shocked - what an ending!
A Vietnamese American artist Carries so much baggage from her past. She grew up poor with a hoarding mother who would rather spend money on things than food. Now she lives in a fancy house with a husband and a daughter and her mother living in the carriage house on their property. When mama dies unexpectedly Anna’s OCD returns full force. She begins questioning what is happening around her- her art patron disappears and when Anna wakes up and finds herself in a motel with a dead man- not remembering a thing - she worries. -
What is happening? Why can’t she remember? Is she loosing her mind? A book that will grab you and keep you questioning,

This thriller was not a favorite for me. I loved the plot and characters but it wasn’t a great setting and for that I wasn’t sure if I would like the rest of the story. I’ll definitely be checking out this author in the future for the writing style alone.

A great, thought-provoking, psychological thriller! Even though I guessed the twist 20% of the way in, I had a lot of fun reading this book. The plot was unique and twisty, and the writing was so good I was even starting to question my own theory about who the bad guy was.

I love a thriller that has some depth to it, and KT Nguyen certainly delivered. Mental health, particularly OCD and PTSD, are major focuses of YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, as well as white supremacy/patriarchal issues (immigration, war, race, etc).

This isn’t exactly a book I would recommend as a weekend binge (which is definitely also a type of thriller I enjoy!), but is a bit of a slow burn that moves in fits and starts and benefits from savoring it over several sittings. Highly recommend!

This is a great debut! The OCD descriptions are unsettling (in the best possible way), and KT does a superb job of pulling the reader into the immigrant experience to illuminate how someone could develop these OCD tendencies. The depiction of the stress mothers feel is spot on. The second half of the book really picks up steam, and throughout, the writing is gorgeous.

Thank you for the opportunity to preview You Know What You Did. This is a complicated psychological novel.
Annie survived a traumatic childhood and as an adult she Carries those scars. It was always Annie and her mom. But her mom was controlling her and her life. Until she was able to escape and follow her dream of going to school to become an artist.
Annie was lost till she met her dream husband Duncan. But Annie suffers from OCD and depression. But Duncan takes care of her and she has her illness under control.
Annie is starting to feel like she’s not getting better now and she’s feeling a sense of urgency that she is losing her self
And when the bodies start to add up, Annie’s life begins to spiral out of control. Is she a murderer? Or even worse, is she capable of hurting those close to her. And her mom died and she keeps hearing her voice.
4 stars. Novel goes back and forth in time which helps to understand background of characters.