I am beginning to think Ann Liang can somehow write crack into her books. When I read This Time It’s Real [Buy Bookshop Amazon LibroFM], I did it on live sprints and clocked 50+ pages per 30 minutes, which is much faster than I normally pace. With I Hope This Doesn’t Find You [Buy Bookshop Amazon LibroFM], I wasn’t checking my page pace, but I finished it in under four hours. I could not stop.
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You is essentially a snarky, academic rivals version of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before [Buy Bookshop Amazon LibroFM]. Sadie and Julius are co-captains of their school, but they don’t exactly get along. They are constantly competing against each other and rubbing their successes in each other’s faces.
For years, Sadie has channeled her frustration with him and everyone else in her class by venting into emails instead of risking her good girl persona. Except, she leaves them in drafts rather than type and delete, and that turns out to be a big problem. Somehow, while she’s in class, the emails all get sent…. to the entire class.
After some public snipping, Sadie and Julius are handed a punishment: they must work on a variety of assignments and projects together until they can learn to get along. The forced proximity helps them learn more about the personal pressures that drive them toward being high performers.
This one really is for the people pleasers and good girls. Sadie is so relatable, at least, she is to me, with her pursuit of being the perfect daughter. I loved the sassy vibes and all the feels that come along with it. I didn’t even care that the reason behind the emails getting out was kinda obvious. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and I hope you do too.
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