life_full_ofbooks 's review for:

Better Left Unsent by Lia Louis

3.0

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Millie Chandler is a receptionist for a television production company and she thought the trickiest part of her job was having to work with her boyfriend, who not only dumped for another colleague, but is now engaged to said colleague. Millie realizes just how wrong she was when she gets to work one day and finds out all of the drafts in her email were sent out. Given that Millie uses her email as a diary, composing messages and then not sending them, but keeping them as drafts, this is quite the predicament. Now the entire office knows how she feels about everyone who works there, her friends know what she thinks of their significant others, and even her family now knows Millie’s true feelings about them. It’s a complete mess and in attempting to fix things Millie befriends the one person who never received the draft she wrote, making him the perfect ally.
This was a cute premise but like all of Lia Louis’ books there was a very sad undercurrent. While Millie was likable enough, she just didn’t mesh with me. I actually liked a bunch of the side characters far more than I liked her.
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advanced copy of this. I’m sorry it took me so long to get to it. Better Left Unsent hit the shelves May 21.