I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Written by Ann Liang

Narrated by Alice Wen

Unforgettable, snarky, and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before 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 . . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Release date: Feb 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9781546100843

Ann Liang

Ann Liang is an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne. Born in Beijing, she grew up travelling back and forth between China and Australia, but somehow ended up with an American accent. When she isn't stressing out over her college assignments or writing, she can be found making over-ambitious to-do lists, binge-watching dramas, and having profound conversations with her pet labradoodle about who's a good dog. If You Could See The Sun is her debut novel.

Reviews for I Hope This Doesn't Find You

[Storm Walls · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I don’t typically gravitate toward YA romance, but I’m so glad I made an exception for this one! I’m a total sucker for the accidental sent letters trope, and this book did not disappoint.

I loved seeing Sadie grow through this book. Her embarrassments, her frustrations, her wins, her friendships - I found myself rooting for her through them all. In the end, she was a girl who perfectly encapsulates so many of us when we were teenagers. It invoked a nostalgia I wasn’t expecting going in but was glad to embrace.

If you’ve ever been a people pleaser or over competitive or even just a teenage girl, I’d absolutely recommend this book to you.

[aubreymorr121 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Best book I've ever listen to or read truly my fav book of many recommend this if I'm being honest instead of being all mushy this is exactly what I think love is this is what I want I want my life to be a spitting imagine of this I love this book I want to be saddie so badly

[Pheebz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

4.75, I love it so much. Like I didn't expect for it to top Ann Liang's other books but it somehow did. Rival's to lover's is my fav and I like how it felt completely different from her debut novel even though the trope and the characters had lots of similarities. They don't register the same to me, I really think of them as separate beings and characters. All I wished for was more of the side characters I guess since this book is extremely focused on Sadie and Julius. Also the fact that we didn't get more depth into Sadie's daddy issues and Julius' life is actually kind of disappointing though I understand why in a way since Sadie seems to have slowly moved past it and I'm guessing they didn't want it to get dark with the elaboration between him and his brother's issues, though it's cliche enough for the readers to understand the indications. Still wished to see more of their outward lives though but I still loved it so much.

[Eli · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed the book as a whole, but it was very infuriating at times, because I had the feeling that Sadie and Julius would constantly miss opportunities to “catch up with each other “ and sometimes shut themselves without reason.
Throughout the book I doubted that the conclusion would be drawn seamlessly, how to explain why *the certain person* send those emails, but I was pleasantly surprised- it fitted the story
All in all I’d rate it with 3,6 stars