Things I Shouldn't Have Said

A young adult novel dedicated to the perfectionist self we all hide within us.

Sadie Wen is the epitome of the perfect student: school president, straight-A student, and a "very good kid," according to her teachers. Maintaining her flawless image isn't easy, but she's found a trick for it: she vents all her negative thoughts by writing scathing emails that, of course, she would never dare to send.
Most of them are addressed to her biggest rival since childhood: the utterly irritating co-president of the school, Julius Gong.

You crave attention, you're selfish and indescribably arrogant. Also, your hairstyle is ridiculous. I hope your comb breaks and you run out of the expensive products you use to make your hair look soft...

Sadie doesn't hold back in her emails because she knows they'll never be read... until they're accidentally sent! Overnight, her carefully cultivated image crumbles. Now, everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they don't hesitate to tell her what they really think of her.

But amidst the chaos, someone begins to appreciate the "real" Sadie – Julius, the boy she hates more than anyone else...