It's me. I am going to stop requesting YA books because they are not for me anymore. i struggled connecting with the characters.

This story follows Ava and Gen during their first jobs/internships. They finally live in the same time zone, but different ends of the country. Neither of their lives really work out in the way they had hoped, with one getting fired and the other getting an STD.

I love the two voices of Ava and Gen in this story. They’re both hilarious and relatable. Unlike other stories about two best friends, these ones have fights and hurt each other’s feelings. They’re realistic, which makes them relatable.

I loved this fun story! I hope they write another book in this series.

Thank you St. Martin’s Press for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book. I read it during a hard time in my life and the laughter and kinship that came from reading the texts exchanged between our two main characters is heartwarming.

I read this as a stand a lone and I am glad that I chose to go ahead and try to puzzle through it since I had not read the first, but now I intend to.

You feel like you are in a group chat with these two as you read their journey entirely through text messages.. You get to see their struggles and their real life problems the same way you would your friends. There are moments when you want to shake the characters and others where you just want to gather them up in a hug.

These two represent what friendships are like, you may be polar opposites but that doesn;t matter in the face of friendship. This was the perfect easy read to take my mind off of life.

I was able to read this book thanks to NetGalley. It was a cute, fun, and easy read about two best friends names Ava and Gen. It follows them after graduating from high school and shows their enduring friendship through the trials and tribulations of life as a young adult. I enjoyed this one immensely and will recommend to friends and my book clubs. Thanks again to NetGalley.

I didn’t realize this was a sequel when I requested this book. I let it sit a while because of that. I ended up really enjoying the book and characters. I love how the story is told through texts and emails. Although I am a. It older, it reminded me of me and my friends. I would recommend this book for some of my older students.

*Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC!*

First of all, I didn't realize this was a sequel and so now, I must go back and read the first book. But aside from that - I mostly loved this! Told entirely via email and texts, and woven with several pop culture references (shout out, most importantly, to the VPR reference!), this novel was a fun and relatable read. I kind of loved that Ava and Gen were both hot fucking messes for the most part, and I extra super loved that Ava was fully crying all the time, because that's why I do LOLLLL.

Really though: fun, fast read. My only dislike was that at the end, it just ended. Like dead stop, just over. Now seeing that it's a sequel, that makes more sense to me, but I wasn't happy when it just ended! (less)

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I love Gaby & Allison, I loved their first book and I thought the sequel was so much fun. Gen and Ava's friendship is hilarious, loving, realistic (other than the long emails they send each other daily -- if only my best friend and I had the time to do that!) and so much fun to read. This book is a perfect short read since it's all in text or email format.

Well I finally finished this book after it sat in my currently reading for about 5 months. Anywho! I received an ARC of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is a sequel, which I wasn’t aware when I requested it so because I am the way that I am I went and read the first book. I love Gen and Ava’s friendship and the crazy situations they get themselves into. This is a fairly short read since it’s in text and email format, unless you’re like me and take 5 months to read it. I highly recommend this book as well as the prequel!

What a fun read. I didn't find it as engaging as the first in the series, but I will say that it transported me into their lives and made me truly interested in the simple daily events. Made me wish I had a best friend like this. I enjoyed the overt and accepted discussions of sexuality and gender identity; they feel part of the story and not a plot point, which I thought to be very important. The format of the writing makes this book a breeze to get through. Overall fun and engaging.

A great read about long-distance friendship, safe sex, sexuality, and life after college in the "real world". Allison and Gaby's personalities really thrive through their characters Gen and Ava. I was laughing during their conversations because usually it was ridiculous but I also like how they take serious matters and make them light-hearted. I also like how Gen calls Ava out when she's wrong or being ridiculous. That is true friendship!

I received Please Send Help by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin as an ARC from NetGalley. This is the sequel to their book I Hate Everyone But You. I think it would have been helpful to have read Book #1 before reading this one. Ava & Gen are long distance best friends who are both working in internships. The book is entirely written in emails and texts between Ava & Gen regarding their internships, relationships, etc. This was a fun, quick read and very entertaining. I plan on going back to read the first book to see what I missed in their friendship.

I found this hard to follow in the beginning because I have never read the previous story. Took a while for me to relate to the characters, and the language was somewhat over the top. I found parts funny but didn’t overall like this story.

Again, never realised this was a second in a series. Will have to read the first one before i can comment on this.

‏I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.

The story of Ava and Gen continues. In I Hate Everyone But You, the friends are in high school. Please Send Help follows the girls and their friendship after they graduate. They move on with their lives but remain committed to always being there for each other.

The authors, Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin, "perfectly capture the voice of young adults looking to find their place in the world, proving no matter how desperate things seem, your best friend is always there to reboot your life and send help." This quote might sound familiar because it is the description used to promote the book. It describes the book perfectly and, if you read my reviews, know I do not like to copy and paste. In this case, it did not make sense to reinvent the wheel.

The format of the book is similar to reading a play. However, there are no stage directions or aside descriptions, The book relies completely on the dialogue and is written as an email conversation between the two friends. I hope to see Ava and Gen's friendship to continue in future books.

FYI, if you listen to the audiobook, the authors are also the narrators.

This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 8/01/19.

I unfortunately could not finish this book as I DNF'd it at around 40%. I don't think this book was made for me and thus I cannot give it any review. It does make me sad because I have been watching Allison and Gaby for many years and listen to their podcasts as well. Hopefully they come up with something different.

A few months ago I read I Hate Everyone But You and what a nice surprise that books was. Please Send Help picks up a few years after the end of the first book, when Ava and Gen have just graduated from college and are ready to start their first job. Told also through texts and emails this keeps being as fresh and funny as the first book. Their conversations are filled with pop culture references and some laugh out loud moments, and though it may seem as this is just a light read, it manages to impart some powerful messages about important topics such as mental health, therapy, stigmatization of STDs and sex, LGBQT rights and addiction.

Crossing my fingers we’ll have a third installment as I’m not ready to say goodbye to Ava, Gen and their crazy shenanigans.

This book was funny and a very quick read, however the little icons representing the two characters make it difficult for me at the beginning to figure out who was sending which messages. I also would have liked more about their backstories.

Make some new bff’s with these 5 great summer reads about friendship
Sarah Murdoch
By Sarah MurdochSpecial to the Star
Tues., July 23, 2019timer2 min. read
Friendships — between young women, old men and everyone in between — are at the heart of these new novels.

The Great Unexpected, Dan Mooney

Joel Monroe is 76, a recent widower who is fed up with life – until the arrival of his new roommate. His name is Frank de Selby, aka Frank Adams, an irrepressible former actor (the word “popinjay” springs to Joel’s mind when they meet); soon, the newcomer is cheering up the residents of Hilltop Nursing Home, including, reluctantly, Joel. When Joel tells him he has decided to kill himself, Frank pronounces this a fine plan, so long as the exit is “profound, theatrical, wonderful, encapsulating.” A tale of love, survival and finding meaning in old age.

Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane

This is the story of two families, the Gleesons and the Stanhopes. The men, Francis and Brian, are Irish cops, working at a Manhattan precinct and living next door to each other in a town north of the city. The wives — Lena lonely, Anne volatile — do not bond. It is their children, Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, who find each other in early childhood and become best friends. When they are teens, a violent event sunders their families. A story of resilience, constancy and forgiveness, and a reminder that the past is always present.

The Summer Demands, Deborah Shapiro

Emily and her husband have moved into the director’s house of a former summer camp with the vague idea of reopening it as a retreat for adults. Instead, he has found work and she, on the edge of 40 and grieving a miscarriage, is feeling at an in-between stage. Then she meets Stella, a young woman who has been squatting in one of the cabins. Emily removes a splinter from Stella’s hand. Stella paints Emily’s nails. Slowly, a bond forms – unsettling, sensual, mutable.

The Nap-Away Motel, Nadja Lubiw-Hazard

The Nap-Away Motel is on the Kingston Rd.’s motel strip, a near-derelict artefact from the days before the 401. Orianthi (or Ori, who is sometimes a girl, sometimes a boy) lives in Rm. 11, in Toronto to find her twin, Carter, who left their foster home shortly after their 17th birthday. Suleiman, in Rm. 6, misses his wife, Khadija, from whom he’s separated. Tiffany (or Iff) is a mixed-race child who lives with her mom in Rm. 5. Ori, Iff and Suleiman form a bond, a result of adjacency, loneliness and the discovery of a litter of abandoned kittens.

Please Send Help…, Gaby Dunn, Allison Raskin, St. Martin’s Press

We first met Ava Helmver and Gen Goldman in 2017’s I Hate Everyone But You, an epistolary novel that unfolds through texts and emails when the L.A. best friends are attending colleges on opposite coasts. Please Send Help … continues the correspondence: Ava, the straight one, is an intern at Mind the Gap with Halona McBride, a late-night TV show out of New York; aspiring journalist Gen is a web designer at The Fernandina Beach Centennial, a Florida newspaper. A YA story that speaks amusingly and bluntly to young women. Gen and Ava are much like besties Dunn and Raskin, whose shtick can be sampled on their YouTube channel Just Between Us.

Sarah Murdoch is a Toronto-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Star. Reach her via email: smurdoch49@gmail.com

Oh my gosh, I had so much fun reading this! I requested this based solely upon the fact that Gaby Dunn was a co-author, because I will 100% support anything she does! I didn’t realize when I requested it that this was actually book 2, but I didn’t feel lost by anything at all, and it honestly just made me want to read book 1 even more!

Please Send Help is basically a look into two twenty-something young women’s lives after college, trying to find their way in the world. It is told through their emails and texts back and forth, as they stay in touch and try to keep up with each other while living states away.

This was honestly just so refreshing and fun to read! Both Gen and Ava are adorable, lovable, and hilarious characters and I didn’t want to stop eavesdropping on their lives! Gen is a loud, in-your-face, wonderful queer character with loads of personality; and Ava is a sweet, anixety-ridden, dependable character who clearly just wants to be loved! I could relate to both of them in many different ways.

I know this might not be the book for everyone, but this book and these characters just made me feel so attached I couldn’t help but breeze through this read! I definitely laughed out loud several times and will be on the lookout for more from these two authors!

Book 3 for #reviewathon. This book was pretty bad, objectively. If this is how girls in their early twenties talk to their friends these days, I am really glad I am no longer in my twenties. YIKES. It gets two stars, because some parts were funny, and it was an easy read, but there is really nothing redeeming about the characters and no real plot development to speak of. There is a lot of YA with smart, relatable characters, even for adults. This is not that kind of YA.