I was hoping for a funny, quirky office comedy. That is not this book. I am the poster child for office anxiety, so I’d like to say I feel well-versed on how it feels and looks from the outside. The MC was just deeply depressed, awkward, and self-destructive. This is a big old did not finish for me.

I was going to leave this alone, but I looked at the publish date. Oh hell no. The main mechanic for the MC to get access to everyone’s emails is that she would write petty notes at the end of emails, change the font color to white and go undetected until the day she forgot to change the text color. No. Just no. The publish date is 2024. Far past the era of dark mode and inline replies in text. You can’t hide anything in white text anymore and haven’t for damn near 10 years. Starting off on that premise alone is where to book goes sideways. Then add the deeply depressive actions of the MC that the author calls anxiety. No ma’am. Anyone that lives with the anxiety that is described so deeply as this MC would EVER hit send after adding those postscripts in white text because of the change of maybe, kinda, sorta, possibly being discovered. And that right there is when I stopped caring enough to continue reading. (I’m not even touching what the dynamic was between her and the 12 year old neighbor.) Highly depressing that this was my first flop for 2025 when it had been so highly recommended on BookTok. Y’all need to get your head checked.