This was cute and quick and bordered more on contemporary fiction for me. I read it in one afternoon while at the pool.

I love Lia Louis and I had high hopes for this book, but unfortunately it fell a little flat for me. I think my main issue was that I didn't feel any chemistry between our hero and heroine, which made me a little less invested than I wanted to be.

The ideas and concepts of this one were promising as well, but something about it just felt a little boring! I wanted more emotional buildup as the story went on, but I just felt like it was dragging! UGH! I wanted it to be so good and it just didn't hit the heights I wanted it to. I'll still keep reading this author's books, but this wasn't a win for me.

The weirdest thing about this book was that I was concurrently reading "I Hope This Finds You Well" and it was almost the same story. A female employee accidentally sends scandalous messages out at work and a male coworker tries to help them fix it. It was okay. I felt like Millie was very immature.

Imagine you used your email drafts as a way to speak your mind to annoying people and journal your most private thoughts - then the emails all get sent…. Oooooffff.
I absolutely love Louis and while this wasn’t my fave of hers, it was romantic and touching. A little lighter and funnier than her previous books!

Can you imagine writing emails to your family,work colleagues, the boss you ‘like’ and everyone else in your life…..but putting exactly what you would say to them if you could, then keeping them all secret in a safe folder……then one day you wake to find out a server error has sent them, to everyone…..nightmare…..well this happens to Millie and to say her life is turned on it’s head is no exaggeration as friend/foe and everyone in between suddenly finds out what she really thinks of them
It is, of course, a disaster and you can’t help but put yourself in Millie’s shoes as she walks into work the next day…..but as the story progresses she turns it to her advantage and a love story emerges from within the chaos, Millie being Millie though it doesn’t happen without many complications
This is a fun,lol romantic comedy but with surprising depth and emotion and it was a joy to meet Millie and get to know her and be with her through a terrible time ( although funny ) and see how her life changed
The author’s writing was great to read and loved the way she described lovely comforting smells and also described a stray dog having Robert Smith from The Cure’s eyes!
I really felt I shared this bumpy journey with Millie and was pleased to be there, a very enjoyable book!

Thank you Net Galley for the early copy of this book. Cute, office romance. I like my books with characters that don't have too much drama in their lives and this one fits the bill and opened the door into television productions.

Title: Better Left Unsent
Author: Lia Louis
Genre: Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life…So little time.

Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to keep everything to herself—her feelings, her truths, even her dreams—in an effort to protect herself from getting hurt again.

But Millie does write emails—sarcastic replies to her rude boss, hard truths to her friends, and of course, that one-thousand-word love declaration to her ex who is now engaged to someone else. The emails live safely in her drafts, but after a server outage at work, Millie wakes up to discover that all her emails have been sent. Every. Single. One.

As every truth, lie, and secret she’s worked so hard to keep only to herself are catapulted out into the open, Millie must fix the chaos her words have caused, and face everything she’s ever swept under the carpet.

First of all, can you imagine if this happened to you? I’d have to quit my job and move away where no one knew me. I almost stopped reading about 20% in because I wasn’t totally invested in the story, but…I really liked Jack. He was great! I loved how supportive of Millie he was and how he treated her. That was well-worth reading!

Lia Louis lives in the U.K. Better Left Unsent is her newest novel.

Such a lovely lovely story! I adored Eight Perfect Hours, but I'm not sure if I love this one more, so now I will just say I adore Lia Louis and her stories. One of the best authors I've read and will continue to read as long as she's writing. I would give this 10 stars if I could. Please read it!

Thank you to Atria Books, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, and NetGalley for sharing such a wonderful book. All opinions are my own.

Better Left Unsent is a sweet rom-com based on a worst nightmare! Millie deals with the stresses of work and life by treating her drafts folder as her diary and writing her thoughts in emails she never plans on sending. However, when years of the email drafts get sent out overnight, her world is turned upside down! Secrets and hard truths come into the light, and Millie must decide how to move forward.

The premise of this book is so creative and engaging! I often tell my therapy clients to write out their thoughts either in a journal or letters they never plan on sending. The idea of those getting out make my stomach drop! I enjoyed the characters and that the story focused not just on the romantic relationship but all of the relationships in Millie's life, including the one with herself. Overall, it was a fun read that reminded me of an adult Harriet the Spy.

This book is adorable. I laughed out loud, but it is also heartwarming. The characters are endearing and it was easy to cheer for a happily ever after ending. I will recommend this for other adult readers, especially those who enjoy adult rom-com.

This is an absolutely adorable, wonderful romance! Louis is so good at coming up with hilarious little one liners sprinkled throughout her books. ( I'm a good person! I rinse my recyclables!). This is a quiet, low steam book that's very current with lots of tech talk, but in a way that we are all familiar with. There's also mixed media with lots of emails and text messages sprinkled throughout. I really enjoyed this book!

I was a bit hesitant to start this book, as Lia Louis has been hit or miss for me in the past. I enjoyed Eight Perfect Hours but wasn't a huge fan of The Key To My Heart. In the end, I think this book fell right in the middle of those two. The premise of Better Left Unsent at first really intrigued me. It started off strong and I was really invested in how Millie was going to clean up this mess. But as the book went on, I think it started to try to take on too much, plot-wise. Not only do you have the current romance, but you have the messy ex, the drama with the friends, the parental issues, and the whole email fiasco. I think this book would have benefited from one romance and maybe the friend-issues. Everything with Millies parents and her ex-boyfriend started to feel like a lot to take in.

That being said, I found all the characters to be utterly charming. Ralphie and Cate are so cute and Jack was an utter charmer. All their storylines felt put together really well and the characters felt realistic. I 100% would pick up a book to read more about Cate and Ralphie falling in love.

This ended up being a fast and fun read, but not one i'm going to continue to think about or return to.

I wanted to like this one more than I did. I loved the premise, but unfortunately I never really connected with the main character.

Oh I just loved the main character, Millie, in this book! She makes a terrible blunder that upends her life. The aftermath causes her to shutdown but then slowly learn life lessons that change her as a person. I had so much second-hand embarrassment for her when she inadvertently sends emails about her coworkers to everyone. It was kind of hard to read but then I had so much sympathy for what she went through as a result. Lia Louis writes beautiful books about the human experience and adds a dose of humor that keeps her stories entertaining. I really enjoyed this one (as I have her last books) and am excited to read what comes next. Thank you to NetGalley, Lia Louis, Atria Books, and Atria/Emily Bestler Books for the complimentary ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is the first book that I've read by Lia Louis and it most definitely wont be my last.

I wholeheartedly enjoyed this book. I thought that it was such an interesting concept and that she did such a great job executing it. It was funny, the characters were likable, and the drama kept you wanting more.

I felt like Millie was such a relatable character. Between her insecurities from her past relationship to everything that happened to the emails. I feel like all of us at some point have wished we had the guts to say things that were on our minds, even if it was just an accident like for her. I liked how even though her romance played a large part of the book, it wasn't the main thing about this book. It truly was about finding yourself after being lost and healing from it all.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing me an ARC copy of the book for my honest opinion.

I have read other works by this author and liked them.

It took me a long time to get into this one. I did feel for the main character when all the emails went out but had a hard time connecting with her.

Funny at times, which made reading it worth it. I didn't really like the main character and in this case that made it a hard read for me.

Maybe if more of the latter part of the book had happened earlier in the I would have connected better.

Thanks to netgalley and Atria Books for the arc.

2.5 stars from me.

The thought of having 107 emails intended to just be kept as drafts because it's your unofficial diary accidentally sent is simply cringeworthy. And that's what happened to Millie. Not only is she still smarting over a 2 year old breakup - with a coworker, no less - but now she has to face so many more people who she may have insulted or was bluntly honest with in those emails.
I definitely do not envy the situations that she had to handle because those emails got out, but I do appreciate the lessons learned. Especially because it allowed her to do the things that she may have been holding herself back from for too long. And perhaps another one of those lessons is that maybe technology isn't your friend. :)

I don’t do super well with things like secondhand embarrassment or whatever it’s called when this book was sometimes painful for me to read because I hate the idea of it happening to me and the fallout haha. Other than covering my eyes a few times (like the cover lol), I did find this a very fast, easy, and enjoyable read. I never really felt the connection with the romance even though I liked the guy. Overall it was a cute book and I did enjoy it, I like the message I think it’s trying to send, but I think there was maybe just too much going on or something? I found Millie frustrating at times but who knows how I would deal if it happened to me. Also, my cat’s name is Millie and the book Millie’s dad (I think?) calls her Millie Moo which is what I call my cat, so that made me chuckle.

Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it. 

When Millie's draft emails get sent out, she has a lot of explaining to do. She has used writing emails as an outlet for years and now everything she didnt want to say to people is delivered directly to their inbox. 

I have been a long time fan of Lia Louis, I have loved all of her previous books. This one was a bit of a disappointment. Although the premise of this story sounds fun, I couldn't get past the stupidity of the main character. Why would you save these unkind emails? It just seems insane to me that someone would store these types of thoughts on their email, and especially a work email. It was hard for me to see Millie's charm. She seemed to get herself into bad situations she could have prevented. 

I had to really push myself to finish this book, which is a bummer because I was so looking forward to it.

Why would Millie write negative emails to coworkers, address them with emails, and save them as drafts? Who knows, but it sure makes for a fun read! This book touches on a fear I sometimes have...sending an email (or text) you don't mean to send. But it definitely goes next level for her!

For the first half of this story, I was obsessed. I couldn't put it down and I just had to keep reading. By the time I got towards the end of the book, some of the story lines didn't feel as strong to me as they started...which is the only reason this is a four star read, instead of a five. That's not to say this book was still wonderful! I absolutely recommend this one!

The eclectic and varying personalities of all of Mille's coworkers was the best! While I didn't care for them all as characters, I really enjoyed reading about all of them. Poor Millie went through a rough go of things, but things ended up looking better for her eventually!