e-Audio, 08:33:17
Narrated by: Alice Wen
Release Date: February 6, 2024
Published by: Harlequin Audio
Read from: February 10-12, 2024
Stand-alone
Source: Library’s Libby
TW: Bullying, Cursing, Toxic Relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Panic Attacks/Disorders, Misogyny, Sexism
For Readers Interested In: Contemporary, Romance, Race/Ethnicity Diversity, Academic Rivals, YASnarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.
Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a “pleasure to have in class.” It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She’d never send them of course — she’d rather die than hurt anyone’s feelings — but it’s a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie’s work.
All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. “You’re attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you’ve been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft…”
Sadie doesn’t have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them… that is, until they’re accidentally sent out.
Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It’s her worst nightmare — now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they’re not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there’s one person growing to appreciate the “real” Sadie — Julius, the only boy she’s sworn to hate…
*MY THOUGHTS*
Y’all have to know this about me before I start this review………….I am not an enemies to lovers girlie, so please take this review with a grain of salt. But, I almost DNFed this. As much as I liked the first one, I did not care for this one at all. They were still enemies at like 83% and I was bored by it all.
Ok so what I actually liked was the characters. I really liked Sadie because I related to her. She basically does the electronic version of what I did in high school lol I wrote everything in a journal. Till this day i have a composition book on me at all times. I would have kept them all if it wasn’t for a natural disaster. ANYWHO, the way she decimated everyone in those emails…. I knew it was going to be a problem when they were sent out lol And yes it was. On the other side of these emails was the rest of the school, who seemed to be led by Julius. He was annoying. I did not like him. Like at all. I WISH she had made this dual POV because he might have stood a chance of me liking him, but the way it’s written from only Sadie’s POV, I was annoyed lol
As for the romance, I was so annoyed lol Whyyyyyyyy did she make them hate each other up until like 83%? I don’t understand books like that. They do this and make it seem like a slow burn, but it was just annoying. I didn’t think it was cute at all. And then they were throwing subtle hints that they liked each other, but they were TOO subtle in my opinion. Because even when it got to the part where they were saying they liked each other was also like in a mean way?? And then it was the end? Idk, but it just wasn’t good to me. They had no chemistry and it just wasn’t believable. And I guess it’s a me thing because there’s other people out there that say they loved it. But I said what I said lol It just wasn’t a cute thing to me.
This book was one of my most anticipated because I really enjoyed the author’s debut. But although that one also waited until the last minute for them to get together, it was also still enjoyable. This one wasn’t. And I was sad about that.
Overall, I give this
