The email/text message format is like nothing you’ve seen before.īesides the prequel to this book, I’ve never read something in this kind of format.

Mix in new jobs, new loves, and new experiences and you’ve got a complicated mesh that Ava and Gen work to get through together. Things are now happening in real time and Ava and Gen’s expectations of correspondence has gotten a bit more on point than in I Hate Everyone But You. Now that they’re on the same coast the dynamic has shifted where one isn’t asleep on the East Coast and awake on the West. They are each other’s night and day and that leads to plenty of interesting conversations and adventures as they try to keep in touch. The friendship between Ava and Gen is epic and complicated.Īva and Gen are proof that opposites attract and that hard work is what keeps long distance relationships, even friendships, alive and kicking. Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin is the fresh dose of friendship, growing up, and queer love/life (for one of them) sprinkled all throughout this book like confetti! Basically it’s the young adult novel you need to get your hands on today that is told in the form of text messages and emails between two friends that are thousands of miles apart but on the same coast! The sequel to I Hate Everyone But You takes everything that you loved about the first book and ramps it up to 11 with new problems, obsctacles, and life lessons for Ava and Gen! 1.

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Gaby dunn and allison raskin