I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang

Item: I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted November 30, 2025 by karenbaron in Review, Romance, Young Adult / 0 Comments

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

by Ann Liang

Published by HarperCollins, Scholastic Press on February 6, 2024
Setting: Melbourne, Australia
Genres: YA Rom-Com
Pages: 320
Format: Audible Audiobook, Hardcover, Kindle, Paperback
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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...

I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang is a cautionary tale about how keeping an email you write when you’re upset can backfire on you.

Can Sadie Wen get back her perfect appearance for everyone?

Sadie Wen

Sadie Wen is a high school student who is trying her hardest to make everyone happy, even if it’s costing her her own happiness. The problem with doing all of that is that Sadie is wearing herself thin at a young age and has become one of those people who end up with a mental breakdown because of everything she’s doing. Except I don’t really see Sadie as emotionally stressed; more that she needs to take care of herself and stop people pleasing. Sadie is a great character, and I can see how getting those emails out to the world was good for her. I like Sadie, and I can see some of myself in her.

Julius Gong

The book is written from Sadie’s point of view, so we only see Julius that way. Julius is Sadie’s co-captain at their school and her competition in all their shared classes. He is a good character with a ton of flaws, and somehow, in this enemies-to-lovers romance trope, I think it’s also the whole “he-falls-first-but-she-falls-harder” trope. At least that is what it seems like to me. I loved reading about their arguments and how they actually seem to work together. Julius is a good guy, and I like his character.

The Emails

Sadie ends up writing emails every time something happens that makes her lose her mind. The biggest set of emails she has is for Julius Gong, going from ten years ago to now. I am one of those people who end up typing something up to get all the frustration out about whatever happened, but then I delete the email. Hopefully, Sadie learned her lesson and will either delete those emails or at least talk to the person who upset her—the second option being the healthier one.

Five Stars

My rating for I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang is five stars. I recommend all the books I have read by Ann Liang, as they are all outstanding. Ms. Liang is a great author, and I can’t wait to see what else she writes. I love how all the books are different from one another, with different tropes and romance settings.

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Until the next time,

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About Ann Liang

Ann Liang is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of the critically acclaimed YA novels This Time It’s Real, If You Could See the Sun, and I Hope This Doesn’t Find You. Her books have sold into over twenty foreign territories. Born in Beijing, she grew up traveling back and forth between China and Australia, but somehow ended up with an American accent. She now lives in Melbourne, where she can be found making overambitious to‑do lists and having profound conversations with her pet labradoodle about who’s a good dog.

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