Dang. What did I just read?!! This books unreliable narrator kept me on the edge of my seat and guessing the whole time! It's a super psychological, super twisty read! Really enjoyed it.

4.5/5. Page-turning book trying to figure out what’s going on! Eventually I had a guess that turned out to be right but still run to read. Interesting look at someone with OCD and how it impacts daily life.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID by K.T. Nguyen is a fever dream of a suspense!

A large portion of this story explored themes of intergenerational trauma specific to immigrants to the US. This was a fascinating dive that helped me to understand some behaviors that I have seen, though not to the extent of this book! I have been thinking lately of the privilege of life beyond surviving (think literal human life or death), and what the cost of survival often demands. This book touches on this in a very surreal-feeling narrative full of mystery and dread.

I won't even say anything about the plot other than it feels like being a witness to a serious breakdown/train wreck. It is very character driven, taking the reader down multiple timelines of present and past but with enough plot points to keep it moving forward. I wonder if the audiobook would be harder to follow (though I don't usually have issues), so I am glad for the visual chapters to help me! That final conclusion was definitely not what I was expecting!

A well done book for me! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Thank you to @duttonbooks & @netgalley for this title that was published on April 16th, so it is available now!

My first DNF in awhile. This one just wasn’t for me. A story about a woman struggling with OCD. The writing made for a very rambling, long story that went nowhere. It took me multiple weeks to make it 35% of the way through, and that’s when I needed to call it.

This was a fast and accessible book to read. It did tend to drag at times and was repetitive in many parts and some of the reveals were a little underwhelming. It was a little too predictable in the end for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Annie is a first-generation Vietnamese American artist with OCD. Her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, coped with her own trauma by hoarding, and despite hard work, there was never enough food on their table. When Annie meets the wealthy Duncan Shaw at the Rhode Island School of Design, she’s eager to be taken care of. Years later, Annie and Duncan are married, with a daughter Tabby. A few chapters in, Annie’s life starts to unravel after her mother’s death. Her daughter seems to hate her, her husband is always working, her art career stalls, and her dormant OCD symptoms resurface.

K.T. Nguyen excels in portraying Annie’s struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), particularly her paranoia about germs, dirt, and contamination. I can relate to a lot of Annie's thoughts. The novel isn’t mere entertainment; it delves into generational trauma and mental illness. Annie becomes a person of interest when her employer disappears and is later found murdered. Blackouts plague her, and she can’t defend her innocence and starts to question herself. Did she do it? Read it and find out.

The story weaves between Annie’s present-day struggles and flashbacks to her childhood and early life with Duncan. The layers add complexity, and sometimes leave you puzzled about the timeline. Yet, there’s healing in Annie’s journey—a flawed human’s growth that’s both challenging and rewarding.

K.T. Nguyen’s exploration of trauma, mental health, and the human spirit was an interesting and good debut from a compelling new voice.

Review posted on Goodreads and Amazon on 4/25

I received this as an ARC, I enjoyed this book. I really liked the writing style, K.T. Nguyen does a great job of immersion you in the story so you feel like you’re experiencing everything alongside the main character. She does a great job of making you question the main character while also feeling bad for her. There were a few parts where the plot dragged for me and the twist didn’t really shock me that much. I still enjoyed the story overall and I think K.T. Nguyen has a lot of potential. I will definitely be open to checking out more of her work in the future.

This is a story about a women named Annie who is a daughter of a Vietnam refugee who struggles with OCD Who’s life is very chaotic. Annie wants more than anything to become successful but at what cost.
Annie husband had to go out of the country and her mother passed leaving her alone with their spoiled daughter soon things really start to unravel and Annie OCD is in full swing and Annie starts making unwise decisions.
Annie now is full of secrets and lots of bad things happen
If you like a thriller that is full of secrets this one’s for you. But it can be a dark read for some check triggers

You Know What You Did is a compelling mystery with strong mental health representation. I felt every bit of Annie’s growing unease and self-doubt as the story unfolded. While I had my suspicions, this story did indeed keep me guessing until the very end.

Thank you K. T. Nguyen, Dutton, and NetGalley for providing this ARC for review consideration. All opinions expressed are my own.

You Know What You Did is a solid psychological thriller debut.

Annie has a history of OCD - when her Mom (who lives in a guest house on the family’s property) dies, her OCD seems to kick in again. She’s had a complicated relationship with her immigrant Mother, and her old paranoid behavior resurfaces.

Tbh this was a disturbing read for me and I suppose this was intentional for readers. It’s hard to put into words without spoilers but it’s lots of gross out stuff and insects. 😩It was an easy mystery to me to figure out early on as I read many thrillers.

If you enjoy unreliable narrators, this IS a great thriller for you.

I will def read more of this author’s work! Thanks for the early copy.

This debut, coming of age thriller really was a good read but slow at times. The unreliable narrator (a first generation American), has OCD which makes everything in the story not what you think. This booked hooked me at first but I found it slow at the end.

The very first page of this book hooked me in with an intense scene that made me want to keep reading to find out more.

The main character, Annie, just lost her mother and is trying to cope meanwhile her obsessive compulsive disorder is making her spiral. The author did such an amazing job at portraying the thought cycle of OCD that I started to resent Annie half way through because of her repetitive and intrusive thoughts. But then as the plot thickened and the truth came out, I was back on her side and satisfied with the ending of the story.

Overall a great book with unexpected twists and turns and well written characters!

Maybe I’ve read too many of the same kind of book but I hard a time feeling like this wasn’t just another of the same.

Annie is drowning. Her mother has died and she now has to deal with everything she hoarded in the carriage house. Her OCD is spiraling out of control, and then her most prominent patron disappears. Her husband, frustrated with Annie's inability to deal with anything in her life, takes an assignment in a war zone. She can also do no right in the eyes of her young teenage daughter.

This book was...a lot. It was really good, but Nguyen draws you in so firmly into Annie's chaos that you almost feel like you are the one making the horrible decisions while your brain screams at you that this is wrong, stop doing this. She masterfully captures the feeling that someone with OCD must be feeling. I felt anxious a lot of the time reading this, it's that well done. You feel for Annie, but still want to shake her as she does things that both you and she know are going to have dire consequences down the line, whether with her husband, the police, or the people around her.
Sometimes I felt like I was losing the threads of the story as Annie continues to spiral down, but Nguyen brings us back in firmly in the end, so you finish the book feeling satisfied that the journey was all worth it. I really enjoyed this book, it was very well written. What a fantastic debut, I'm looking forward to more from KT Nguyen!

You Know What You Did is a unique thriller that combines a mental health breakdown from the perspective of an OCD character with a hint of intergenerational trauma carried from a Vietnam War refugee. Annie “Anh Le” Shaw grew up poor but on paper she has made it now. However her life begins to unravel as she loses her mom and her patron in rapid succession. Her obsessive-compulsive disorder, which she thought she’d vanquished years ago, comes roaring back—but this time, the disturbing fixations swirling around in Annie’s brain might actually be coming true. As Annie’s mind is fracturing she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, and she doesn’t know if she has the right answers.

A lot is happening in You Know What You Did. While a lot of these are interwoven, broadly the topics are OCD & mental health, intergenerational trauma & refugee experience, mother/daughter relationships & mystery/thriller elements. While the plot progression for a thriller is often more important, the strength of this novel was definitely the well-realized character of Annie and her mind. There are a lot of parallels between the author’s life and Annie’s and the author has said that this novel was a way of bringing her own nightmares stemming from her OCD to life. Even without added murder to the story, the disgust-driven and contamination-based OCD symptoms Annie was experiencing were hard to experience. So it’s no wonder that all the added stressing events Annie experienced turned her into the ultimate unreliable narrator.

OCD is often portrayed as a quirk in mainstream media and I would recommend this one to anyone interested in exploring the effects of it further in a unique thriller setting.

Thank you so much to Dutton for the ARC of this one.

You know what you did is one of the buzzy thrillers of the spring season. -Annie, who has been in remission after battling ocd, finds herself spiraling after her mother’s death. When people close to Annie start to turn up dead, those around her begin to wonder how stable Annie is. Annie’s worst fears start to wrekck havoc on her mind and she begins to question herself, as paranoid and hallucinations set in. What is real and what is in Annie’s mind? And is the danger she is facing coming from external threats or is she the danger she needs to be afraid of the most?

While this plot is familiar, Nyguyen sets the book apart by including cultural elements and a deeper dive into mental health, specifically anxiety and ocd. The first half of the book does plod and seems disorienting and slow, but by the second half of the book, I found myself more engaged and invested as the plot picks up. A solid thriller read!

Thanks to the publisher for providing the arc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Well written but I found myself struggling to engage through the whole first half of the book. It did pick up after that but the ending was predictable.

3.5 Stars!!

This was a very eerie thriller that had me on the edge of my seat for most of it. I really liked that I couldn't decide if Annie was reliable or not. I would second guess myself whenever she would start to second guess herself. There were some very creepy scenes in this one, but I enjoyed them! It was the type where you were scared reading it but couldn't stop anyway. Overall, I really enjoyed this one, but the ending was a little bit of a letdown for me. I look forward to reading another book soon!

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This book has a slow start but will eventually pull you in with its unreliable narrator. When Annie's mom dies, her OCD which has been in remission is triggered and everything starts to spiral.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for the eARC.

This book is a twisty ride. I was so intrigued to find out what on earth was going on with Annie. I wish Annie had made some better choices throughout but, really enjoyable.