I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Sadie Wen is the picture of a perfect senior: top of her class, endlessly helpful, universally liked. Her secret is a private outlet. She pours her real, unfiltered feelings into draft emails she never intends to send, venting about classmates, teachers, and above all her infuriating academic rival, Julius Gong.
Then the drafts go out. Every one of them, to the entire school. Overnight Sadie's spotless reputation detonates, and the only person willing (or forced) to help her contain the fallout and track down whoever hit send is Julius himself, the boy she has spent years competing against.
Ann Liang's young-adult rom-com is a sharp, funny enemies-to-lovers story about the masks high achievers wear, and what happens when the mask slips.
Overachieving student whose secret rant emails are leaked to the whole school.
Sadie's academic rival and reluctant ally in the fallout.
Sadie's best friend, who supports her through the fallout of the leaked emails.
Yes. Ann Liang followed it with I Hope This Finds You (2025), a novella-length companion that returns to Sadie Wen and Julius Gong after the events of the first book.
Yes — it debuted on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list shortly after its February 2024 release.