The next thing she knows Quinn is being blackmailed by persons unknown–she must complete her to-do list (one thing a day) or the blackmailer is going to release her deepest thoughts to the entire school. To make matters worse the person who took her journal is Carter Bennett, a hottie who was rude to Quinn and clearly hates her.įreaking out Quinn contacts Carter and they meet up at school to exchange journals… only her journal disappears. After doing a school assignment with some of her classmates Quinn notices her journal is not hers… in fact one of her classmates took hers by mistake. Everybody thinks is because her crush asked her best friend out, but Quinn swears it is because of something else. We start of EWIUC with Quinn having broken up with her best friend over reasons unknown. Together, they journey through everything Quinn’s been too afraid to face, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love.Ĭompulsively readable–Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry is a story about growing up, letting go of your fears and the status quo, finding your inner strength, and connection. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett-the last known person to have her journal-in a race against time to track down the blackmailer. That is, until her journal goes missing…Īn anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. Quinn keeps lists of everything-from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud,” to all the boys she’d like to kiss. Fans of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Kristina Forest’s debut I Wanna Be Where You Are will love the juicy secrets, leap-off-the-page sexual tension and the enemy-to-lover romantic arc. It’s a heartfelt, tortured, contemporary YA high school romance with epistolary elements. E xcuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is the story of an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears.
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