Better Left Unsent

A Novel

By: Lia Louis

Narrated by: Ashley Tucker

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

A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

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.

With her signature “tender and heartwarming” (Anstey Harris, author of When I First Held You) prose, Lia Louis presents another unforgettable and moving novel that is perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle and Emily Henry.

Holy hell, what a book!

My first LL book, and I’m an insta-fan! Reminds me of Mhairi McFarlane, which is the biggest compliment I can give. Witty and funny, romantic and sweet, and more suspenseful than most rom-coms. Fantastic narrator too!

Hot mess express. Both the MC and the audio.

Bless her heart, the narrator’s stomach sounds were audible SO MANY TIMES in this. It was really distracting. Also, the “one year later” update is labeled the prologue. It comes at the end—it’s an epilogue! Those kinds of mistakes just make a book feel rushed and careless to me.

As for the story… it’s fine. All I kept thinking is that Millie must be REALLY gorgeous because there can’t be any other reason for the man to be interested in her. He is a fully functioning adult and she is a basketcase to such a degree that she feels like a kid in an adult body sometimes. It’s a shame because some of Lia Louis’s books are favorites of mine. I doubt I will relisten to this one.