I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang [Scholastic Canada #gifted]

To All the Boys I've Loved Before - but make it the opposite - email rants filled with frustration, genuine feelings, and dare I say, a bit of obsession. Sadie strives to be the perfect student and daughter - she works and studies hard and always has a smile on her face. Except when she's able to finally share her real feelings in the emails that she drafts and never sends out. When all her drafted emails get out - Sadie finds herself having to figure out how to smooth things over with many recipients of her emails. She has to decide if it's worth keeping a lid on all her real feelings - or if it's okay to speak to others about what's on her mind instead of putting on the "perfect" front. When she finds herself arguing with her longtime rival, Julius, in person - the two are made to work together to solve things.

I really enjoyed reading I Hope This Doesn't Find You - I think it explores an interesting idea of what perfection is - and especially for girls and women, the idea that in order to be seen as kind and good, real feelings can't be shown and need to be pushed down. Here, in Sadie, we see that to the extreme, and when all her genuine feelings are revealed, readers and Sadie will need to figure out that sometimes the best thing for everyone is not to be "nice"; not at the cost of one's integrity, mental health, and happiness.