Wow, I really enjoyed this book!! The concept behind the book is this girl, a wallflower at an office, gets access to everyone’s emails. What she reads isn’t always pretty, but that’s part of the intrigue of the book.

I found myself laughing out loud a lot while reading this book. That doesn’t happen often for me. I enjoyed all of the characters, even small characters like Miley.

I will definitely look forward to reading more from this author in the future!

Thank you to NetGalley for access to thus ARC in exchange for a honest review.

This was the most relatable, laugh out loud funny book I’ve read in a while. It was sharp and so witty. Natalie Sue is brilliant, each one of her characters felt like someone I know. This story follows Jolene who after one of her secret petty emails is exposed she is supposed to receive rigorous IT restrictions. When those restrictions actually grant her access to her entire departments private emails she can’t resist reading them. She is drawn further into her coworkers private lives and secrets while trying to avoid it all crashing down around her and being exposed.

I thought this was an amazing read. It touches on adult loneliness, working culture and familial expectations. I thought it blended these themes perfectly. I liked how we didn’t just see Jolene struggling but this story showcased how often and how easy it is to quickly judge our peers while not knowing the full story. I loved the connections and tender moments this story had too. It wasn’t just all silly, there were stories that felt real and many relatable moments. There was a tiny hint of romance but it never felt like it overshadowed the story and became only about romance.

This really had a bit of everything. I think this book would be amazing for anyone looking to have a laugh and a cry about crappy work situations, feeling lonely, finding themselves and finding a community. It also had great Persian and Iranian rep.

Hugest thanks to William & Marrow for gifting me an ARC

I cannot say enough good things about this book!

If you've ever worked in an office, you know what it feels like to spend most of your waking hours with the same people day in and day out. You know so much, yet so little about their lives.

I Hope This Finds You Well follows Jolene, a socially anxious office administrator who gets access to all of her coworkers emails and DMs. Her company is already borderline toxic and now there's a new HR guy sniffing around. With potential layoffs looming, Jolene decides to use this computer glitch to get a leg up.

As a major fan of The Office, this book gave me all the feels. The story and characters made the seemingly mundane activities of office life read almost like a mystery or thriller as the different layers of Jolene's coworkers are revealed. I laughed, I cried, and I couldn't put this book down. It has all the best parts of your favorite sitcom and an early 2000's romcom.

Add this book to your TBR ASAP! I Hope You Find This Well will be published on May 21st, 2024.

Thank you to NetGalley for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest review.

I appreciated this book so much! I felt like this book had a little bit of everything, and could even appeal to me as someone who usually hates a smarmy, ensemble-cast-feel-good type book where the curmudgeon learns to open their heart to others. Instead, the characters felt real enough and captures the banality of a cubicle farm while instilling heart into the protagonist and her coworkers. I appreciated that her complex relationship with her parents (particularly her mom) included not just the annoyance of the overbearing immigrant mother, but also the place of love it comes from, ultimately culminating in her mom's unwavering support. Some of these contemporary books just need a little bit of mom-warmth, and I was happy to find that here. Bonus: I love workplace drama haha

I went into this book with some pretty high expectations after seeing some fantastic reviews for it, and let me just tell you, those expectations were not high enough. This is a super relatable, emotional, and hilarious ride, and boy is it a ride!

I absolutely loved the characters! One of my favorite things about this book was how all of the characters were all so well written and developed, full of flaws and issues going on in both their work and personal lives. It wasn't just the main characters that felt fully fleshed out, the supporting characters were as well. I can't remember the last book I read where all of the characters were as well developed as the ones in this book were.

I loved the balance of humor with mental health representation, then add in an adorably sweet romance, and it was perfect. I thought the portrayal of anxiety and alcohol reliance was spot on. I can't express how much I enjoyed the humor and snark being mixed in with it to help lighten up the tough topics.

I cannot recommend this enough. Please do yourself a favor and read this as soon as it comes out!

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If an author writes a book about a hot mess adult then I will read it!

I hope this finds you well is so clever while also hitting on really deep themes of grief, guilt, family pressure, and self isolation.

Our main character Jolene has been working the same administrative job for 8 years without letting herself be known by her coworkers. No one in her office knows that her best friend died while they were in high school and that she’s carried that weight with her ever since. She’s the only daughter of Iranian/Persian parents who want nothing more than for her to be successful in her career, marry well, and produce grandchildren so her mom can brag to all of the auntys.

But Jolene’s self isolation and invisibility can only last for so long. One day she forgets to white out the snarky (and hilarious) comments on an email she sends to a coworker and this lands her in the office of the company’s new HR guy, Cliff. Who knew that someone in HR at a major corporation could actually change everything for the better?

I hope this finds you well is full of heart, witticisms, and learning that people are almost never what they seem on the surface or who we imagine them to be in our heads.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance review copy in return for an honest review. This book was so good! I loved every single character and was rooting for all of them.

I love, love, love this book. The first few pages, I was concerned that the snarkiness felt forced, but I ended up enjoying the balance of sarcasm, sadness, and compassion in this book.

Jolene is the depressed, snarky but also likable protagonist of this novel. You really root for her even though she elicits a fair amount of cringe. Jolene has become the office weirdo because of her social awkwardness. She also despises her coworkers and has the bad habit of adding fireable postscripts to her emails but written in white text so they can't see them...until one day she forgets to change the font color, gets reported to HR, and comes close to getting fired.

To keep her job, Jolene has to undergo training with the new (and dare I say handsome) HR guy. She also has software installed on her computer to monitor any inappropriate communications...except something doesn't go quite right with the installation and she is now able to read everyone's office communications — emails and inner-office chats. Does Jolene alert cute HR man? No, she does not.

From there, we're on a funny, uncomfortable, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful journey with Jolene as she gets to know her coworkers through a heavy dose of deception and begins to find her way to a healthier place....but it's gonna hurt a little first.

There is a little romance here, which is an enjoyable side plot to the overall story. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that Jolene was half-Persian, which is a significant aspect of the book as she navigates her mother's expectations and connects with a fellow Iranian-Canadian coworker.

I am sad to say that I had to DNF this. I could not connect or find myself into this book. I would still recommend to others, especially fans of literacy fiction but this was just not for me.

I Hope This Finds You Well debuts May 21, 2024, and surprised me in the best way. Jolene is a 30 something Persian woman working in an unfulfilling administrative position. She doesn't get along with her colleagues but gets by. Everything changes when she is called in to HR on her birthday to be admonished for harassment in the workplace. When she gets cultural and menial barbs in the workplace, she adds text in WHITE font to her email telling her coworkers what she really thinks. To add to the hilarity, IT messes up her tracking software. She can now see EVERYTHING. All the candid and horrible things her colleagues say about her. All the real possibilities that the new HR manager, Cliff, seems supportive but really needs to lay off/fire a few employees.

Jolene also immigrated to Canada from Iran and has never really found equal footing. There is a ton of trauma around a death of a friend in high school--only she was bullied and harassed to made to blame. She is often bullied in the workplace Big time. When Jolene can see what others say to each other and what they really feel about her, she begins to make some real changes. She knows that SHE has been through it, but everyone has their own story and is suffering in their own way.

Seeing Jolene struggle through social situations with her traditional Persian family, her coworkers, her neighbors has had a profound effect on me. I never thought I would be glued to my Kindle--ugly crying in anticipation of her demise? Comeback?

I've heard it's for fans of "The Office." I am. This is different and more than that. I encourage you to hitch a ride. It's worth the journey.

This book is so tender. Sweet. Thank you NetGalley and William Morrow for the ARC. Again, this book hits May 21. Add it to the list. You will be changed.

Thank you William Morrow Books and Netgalley for the E-ARC of this title.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed this more than I had anticipated. As an Executive Assistant myself, I found this relatable, hilarious and emotional. This is just the story I needed right now.

For readers who work or have worked in an office setting day in and day out. This has some of the show The Office's work shenanigans with a deeper more emotional side to the characters.

Our main character Jolene is just trying to get through another day living the dream as an Admin for a company that is lacking in the morale department. After being turned in by a co-worker for harassment, Jolene is presented with an unexpected circumstance in which she can see all of the department's email and instant messages. Having access to this information proves helpful yet hurtful.

Poking fun at the stereotypical happenings in an office setting, but then adding a deeper element to the characters and their personal stories works for me.

A great story that demonstrates the saying, "you never know what people are going through until you walk in their shoes," (or slide into their emails).

This book was so good. I laughed, I wanted to cry, I laughed some more! And it was all so relatable! Jolene is a mess but in a way that we can all see a little bit of ourselves in. I really enjoyed getting to know her and all the silly people at supershops.

I really enjoyed this one. It's a hilarious and often cringey look at a traumatized and severely anxious woman who is about to lose her job, causing her to do whatever she can to save it- namely, actually speak to her coworkers after virtually spying on them via the company admin account. This ends up being a really wonderful and heartfelt look at humanity and the things we are all dealing with under the surface. If you've ever worked in an office, you will relate to some aspect of this. I am not a crier but wow I did cry at the ending. I also loved the Persian cultural aspects that were included- I wasn't expecting that when I started this, and it was a lovely treat (I'm currently taking Farsi lessons). Highly recommend!

Jolene hates her job, her workers and her life - that is, until she gets a glimpse behind the curtain. This book could be summed up as "you never really know what other people have going on". This book was enjoyable enough while reading it but whenever I stepped away, I never really missed the characters or wondered what happens next.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for this e-ARC.

I’ve been seeing this book all over the place and managed to get an arc so I settled in. If you’re in the corporate world, the picture painted here is only too real. Would I do the same as Jolene? I don’t know….

I admit that I requested this book just for the title, it made me die laughing. So my approach to the story was a bit superficial, but once I got into the book, I couldn't stop reading it. Jolene can perhaps be defined as an anti-heroine (?), we root for her, but we feel sorry for her too. Unfortunately she has some alcoholism problems, and is unable to focus on her life, so she is kind of stuck.
On her birthday, however, something changes her life, initially it doesn't seem like it's a positive thing, but quite the opposite. Little by little we find ourselves "undressing" all the characters that surround Jolene's working life, and those who initially seem to be "enemies" and let's face it, a**holes, are actually also "humans", with their problems, their weaknesses and their string of lies and intrigues to survive the working jungle and life outside the office. The humanization of the characters in this story is amazing, everything is taken with irony and lightness, but it allowed me to really reflect, sometimes behind an a**hole in the office, someone sensitive can hide. A round of applause also to Cliff, I would also like human resources like him.
Thanks to NetGalley, William Morrow, and Natalie Sue for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for my honest review.
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3.5⭐️
This book is a mix of the quirky characters from the office mixed with some pretty decent mental health representation. There’s some fun banter, lies that go too far, a sprinkle of trauma, and minor romance tropes/plot points like a fake engagement gone horribly wrong. It was a little slow to get into but I really started to feel more for the characters at the halfway mark and then ending was a really nice pay off!

With this book, I was expecting a low-key comedy but it quickly turned into a book that makes you rethink your life. Jolene has a lot of character flaws, but watching her growth throughout the book was great. Everyone has shit they don’t talk about. I loved this!

This was a surprisingly heartwarming and quick read! I loved the way each character developed as the book went on and it really felt like you were growing as Jolene was too. Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the ARC.

Thanks to NetGalley, William Morrow, and Natalie Sue for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for my honest review.

Oh no... It's happened. I just read my favorite book of the year. What a sucker-punch. From the description, I had no idea that this book would make me feel so much, but by the end I was openly weeping. Pretty sure that's my first book-related cry of 2024? I really, really loved Jolene, Cliff, Rhonda, Armin, Miley... these characters totally took over my heart. What a beautiful portrait of isolation and anxiety (and over-reliance on alcohol) and trauma and grief, somehow coupled with humor and maybe the kindest love interest in a story I've ever read. This was such a joy and I'm going to be thinking about it for a long, long time.