by Ann Liang
First published 2024
Sadie Wen maintains her perfect student facade by writing vicious email drafts she never intends to send. She vents about her power hungry English teacher, lazy classmates who steal her work, and especially Julius Gong, her cocaptain whose arrogance has annoyed her since childhood. Her unsent emails call him attention starved, self obsessed, and unbearably vain. She imagines his comb breaking and his expensive hair products running out. These drafts keep her sane because nobody will ever read her real thoughts. Then disaster strikes when all her emails accidentally go out. Her conflict free life explodes overnight. Everyone at school discovers what she actually thinks of them, and they fire back with equal honesty. Sadie faces her worst nightmare as her carefully built reputation crumbles. But one unexpected reaction emerges from the chaos. Julius begins to appreciate this authentic version of Sadie, the girl behind the model student mask. The boy she swore to hate forever might be the only person who truly sees her.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, young-adult, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
320 pages · Hardcover · Scholastic Press