This book tells the story of Ava and her friend Gen through e-mails, instant messages, and texts.
This is the second book in a series, but I did not read the first, and I do not think it is necessary. Both young women have embarked on career events: an internship and a first reporting job.

While the book does deal with serious issues: harassment, relationships, and how to be apart from your support system while forging new bonds, but I found both young women to be somewhat immature and unlikable.

I do not enjoy epistolaries for the most part, and in this book, I found the addition of texts or instant messaging to be further confusing, although the authors do a great job inserting touch points without seeming to shoehorn them in.

There were parts of the book I found hilarious, but much of the story was uneven, and I felt the ending was rushed. I assume the authors are planning for a third book

I would recommend the book for young women who are embarking on their first post-college jobs and the rest of their lives.

Thanks to the authors, publisher, and NetGalley.com for my advanced copy.

I was happy to see another book in this series: Ava and Gen are delightful characters and this is a great look at a friendship. I love the unique format of this book (emails and text messages).

Fun, quick read told by text messages and e-mails. I recommend to anyone searching for a fast-paced book that touches on important social issues while it also touches on combatting the stigmas of these issues. However, it had a basic plot line with an ending that seemed abruptly written.

Somehow when I read "I Hate Everyone But You" I didn't connect this Gaby and Allison to the former Buzzfeed now still exceedingly popular YouTuber's Gaby and Allison. How did I miss that? We will never know.

On to the review!

I enjoyed "I Hate Everyone But You" since it spoke to a still very raw part of me from when I moved away for university. The follow up "Please Send Help" is much closer to how I am still feeling about my first full time library job after grad school, even though I'm half way through the third year. As we see from both Ava and Gen there is a level of impostor syndrome that doesn't ever go away. Much like their characters, I feel like Gaby and Allison have really come into their fiction writing selves.

They don't pull any punches when it comes to socioeconomic differences, STDs, life changing decisions, or how relationships (of all varieties) can be the best and worst thing you could be dealing with at any given moment. They accurately portray that feeling of after post-secondary but still not feeling capable. Arguably, Ava makes the more questionable decisions in this novel however, Gen's choice to move to Florida of all places does put them pretty on par.

My only real complaint is that I wanted to see more of the college years. I wanted to see the crazy things they talked about as it happened instead of just memories. Maybe we'll get a third book as a flashback? Maybe even with some flash forward because I sure as heck want to see more from Ava and Gen in NYC.

Congrats Gaby and Allison, I'm hooked!

Ava and Gen are done with college and setting off to make it in the real world- Ava in NYC and Gen in semi-rural Florida. They are taking their tentative first steps toward being real grown ups and are definitely dealing with a few growing pains along the way. But their saving grace is that these two have one of those friendships that pretty much every BFF duo aspires to. Which is to say they can annoy the crap out of each other and tell hard truths and at the end of the day they'll still take down anyone that crosses the other. The characters are almost larger than life, but only in a way that magnifies their issues and negative attributes which is honestly kind of refreshing- female characters don't always have to be likeable and these two definitely are not. And yet, you will find yourself rooting for them all the way through.

The only real criticism I have is that there's a large time gap between the first book and the second and I feel like that time period would have made for great material for another book to connect the two a bit more cohesively.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for a free copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

2.5 stars rounded up to three.

Apparently, this book is a sequel. However, I did not know that. I do not think it hinders the reading of this book because of the starting place.

What I liked: I love books about friendships. I love when there are relationships with others, but it does not override the friendship factor of the book.

What I did not like: The pettiness of the girls. For girls who are out of college, their friendship was immature and juvenile. Gen acts like a 16 year old girl. Ava is needy. While I could deal with Ava's neediness, I could not deal with Gen. She completely ditched Ava in a time of need, but then a few chapters later whined that Ava did the same to her. She had all these expectations for Ava, but held herself to about zero standards or put any forethought into her actions. I am not down for toxic friendships that then play out as a relationship that is healthy.

This might be for some people, but I thought it was just ok.

Well the two best friends from I Hate Everyone But You are back and better than ever. I have to say I loved Please Send Help. I liked how it followed Gen and Ava years after the last book and their friendship is still strong. Ava is now living in New York and is starting a new job while Gen is down in Florida working for a little newspaper. I read this book in one day on a snowy afternoon and it was adorable. I hope this is not the end of these two girls and there will be another book to see where they end up in life.