Snarky 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…
“He’s the ever-moving target in my peripheral vision, the person I’ve mapped all my plans around, the start and finish line and everything in between. All my dreams and nightmares are about him and only him.”
Oh my gosh, I could not have loved this book more if I tried. I literally devoured it in a day and did not, could not, put it down for a second. I Hope This Doesn’t Find You is such an unputdownable academic rivals-to-lovers that will honestly hold on to you until the very last happy-bubble-filled page.
The tension between Sadie and Julius throughout the book is a string pulled so taunt and I just kept getting so excited at the idea of it snapping. These two really test that thin line between hate and love and man, do I love when it falls to the latter.
“Because,” he says quietly, a curious expression on his face. I’ve never seen him so serious. So sincere. “You’re the only person worth paying attention to.”
The story follows Sadie, who is striving her best to always be at the top of everything. She’s intelligent and strong yet also a pushover and does whatever anyone says. The only person who stands in her way at the top is Julius, her rival of ten years. Julius is everything a swoon-worthy book boyfriend should be. He’s intelligent, put-together, dark eyes that “you could wade through forever”, and most importantly he’s always there for Sadie even when she thinks he is against her I adored these two together SO much and was so giddy for them around every turn.
Yes, this book has a very similar premise to “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” where her e-mail drafts “accidentally” get sent out to the whole school. However, it also has a story completely that is its own. I did not want to put it down for a second. I loved every interaction between Sadie and Julius and could not get over their adorable, tension-filled story.
Jotted by Jena 