I had a hard time getting into this one. This was just okay for me. Thank you for the opportunity to read and for the ARC!

Two coders in the same school fall in love after getting closer through coding club especially being the sole members and rival's.



Only as Amber discovers, falling in love isn't like she first thought after she suffered before falling for a guy who abused her trust and violated her personal space. Trying to heal and overcome however, she never expected to happen this quick.



For Dean, he's top coder and the school president Tanner blackmails him to help try and trace the maker of Ask Me Anything, a blog written by a girl at the school who gives advice on sexual, friendship and love/abuse situations.



But when the blog effects his family and his sister closely he faces more pressure and shock ahead especially when he discovers the user and creator of the blog...



Wow this book builds the drama until the climax which makes you gripped to find out just how it all works out and you won't be disappointed it held me in suspense for sure. I liked the angle of the novel how the school president blackmailed pupils as in reality that hopefully and probably wouldn't happen but the relationship between Amber and Dean grows so beautifully and I hope there's guy's out there as respectful as Dean as he shows real care for Amber after she gets deep with him. An all round stunning book for any teenager.



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Sex Education meets the World Wide Web and coders in this poignant and powerful novel by Molly E. Lee.

Done with the traditional and outdated values and vision of her school, Amber creates a site on which teens can ask questions relating to sex but it delves into the real questions many of the teens really want answers from.

This is a novel in today’s age and day which resonates highly with the people. It focuses on topics which are sensitive but the novel deals with them in a brilliant manner. My heart warmed in the way the young teen dealt with the topics such as sexual abuse, trauma, sex and gender inequality put forward, Amber is one hell of badass character. She is a wicked coder and understands the need to help others. First of all, so cool to see a woman of STEM especially someone who is as woke as her. It’s refreshing to read a book revolving around coders and it is quite informative as well.

She is a character which could be any girl from anywhere, going through the same highs and lows as a teenager does. The method of dealing with them, the use of sensitivity captivated the essence of the message of the book. It’s not easy tackling this but the author, Molly has done an excellent job.

The plot line of the novel keeps you gripped though it can get a little slow sometimes. Overall, it grasped my attention so I read the book in one go.

The main two characters Amber and Dean are definitely adorable. It was nice seeing a young man as Dean be so patient and understanding. He had a penchant for being perceptive, a strong and swoon worthy character. But sometimes does come across as too perfect. He seems a bit unreal. The blossoming of their relationship was a slow burn and really beautiful.

The other characters make their mark but don’t stand out exactly except maybe Amber’s cool parents and Jake and Hannah. There wasn’t an in depth story for any of them. I love how the author has shown different types of parents. The authors insights are quite bang on. But would’ve loved more built up on them.

Despite everything, I still loved reading the book, I was hooked after a few chapters in. It’s a novel of today’s age! I’d recommend everyone to read it.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thanks to Netegalley, Entangled Publishing, LLC and Molly E. Lee.

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book deals with sensitive subject matter: sex education is a taboo subject in Dean and Amber's private school, so Amber decides to go underground and create a website where sexually inquisitive teens can ask questions and get answers on this pressing subject. But with sexual experimentation and freedom come consequences: one of the teens has an unplanned pregnancy and (irrationally) blames the website creator.

I think it is a positive step to have these issues addressed in a young adult novel. Much of the advice was sound and often humorously presented. I noticed that other young Goodreads reviewers really enjoyed this book. I, being much older than the targeted age group, found the sexual assault story line a bit melodramatic and drawn out. I kept thinking: this sounds so much like a scene in a soap opera: all that prolonged, bottled up emotion and secrecy. (Spoiler Alert: It made no sense to me that Amber was willing to give advice on sex in order to help others, whereas she refused to seek help for her own very serious issues. Her parents were supportive, but Amber was obviously traumatized and I felt she might have benefited from more professional help than was provided here.

Regardless, the story has a positive message and a hopeful, uplifting conclusion. I would recommend this to teens who are interested in this subject matter. It is, of course, a matter of personal choice.

**I was provided an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Opinions are my own.**

I wish I could give this book 2 different ratings...

The first 65% I’d probably give a 3-4, but the last 45%, more like a 2-3. So I’m settling with a 3.5.

I had a hard time connecting with the storyline for a few reasons: I didn’t attend a strict private academy, I know nothing about the hacker community, and I’m probably older than the target audience, so I had a tough time empathizing here.

Another thing that kept me at arms length is the repetition of certain phrases. For example, any moment of anxiety or nerves included a description of stomach acid. The word “acid” was used 13 times. That’s just a pet peeve of mine, however, and probably wouldn’t be a turn off for many readers.

It was definitely refreshing to read about a female character interested in a more male-dominated field, and the main character was a serious badass most of the time. I loved that Dean saw and appreciated that facet of her personality.

I’d recommend this book for fans of YA that enjoy strong, fiesty female leads and enjoy the tech-y/hacking community! This is definitely a unique novel that caters to that group, which is probably underrepresented in YA lit!

Ask Me Anything tackled a difficult subject in today's society. The context and Amber's fight for justice was the backbone of the story. The topic was executed perfectly, but the characters dragged the story down by squashing its important message.

Amber broke up with her ex-boyfriend who was the hottest guy in school and the star quarterback. She's average. Petite, skinny, bland features, nothing special. Not only was the hottest guy in the school in love with her, but so is the second hottest guy, Dean. Amber's best friend is Hannah who has been in love with her boyfriend since second grade. They've been dating for ten years. Hannah and her boyfriend (Jake, I think) added nothing to the story. Hannah bragged about how much she loved Jake and how amazing he was. She was always making out with him (even if they hadn't seen each other in a few minutes) and was always sitting in his lap. When she wasn't having sex with Jake, she pestered Amber about how Dean was in love with her and that she needed a boyfriend. Hannah and Jake were useless props when they were supposed to be Amber's best friends.

Dean classified Amber as sexy. Every time he described her, he always included the word 'sexy'. Sexy eyes. Sexy figure. Sexy pixie hair. Sexy fingers when she's coding. He was a stereotypical character that shockingly wasn't written from male's perspective. Besides counting off all the ways Amber is sexy, he regularly growls like a bear and is blackmailed by the school's laughable and psychotic principal.

The spoilers were predictable. If the characters would have spoken with one another and stopped making assumptions then the drama, angst, and tears could have been appreciatively removed. One turning point at the end was when Amber received a hateful message on her blog from a user who took her advice. Months prior, this user wrote in, asking Amber if there was any chance of pregnancy by just using birth control. Amber listed the statistics. Fast forward to the future and guess what? This user is pregnant because birth control isn't 100% effective. So she blames Amber for her pregnancy and Amber spirals into darkness because she can't believe her advice led to that.

Alright. Let's think this through. There is no way that Amber impregnated a 15-year-old girl. All Amber did was list the statistics: how effective birth control was solo, how effective birth control and a condom was, and that it was the user's decision on which option to use. Instead of realizing how absurd this girl was and rolling her eyes, Amber cries to her parents and wants to shut down her blog, find this girl, and be at her side every minute of her pregnancy. Even her parents reassured her it was the girl's own fault for getting pregnant. It was the girl's decision to have sex after reading the stats, but today's society likes to pin the blame of their choices on everyone but themselves.

Let's look at this another way. If I tell you to jump off a bridge, are you going to do it just because I said to? If I inform you that you have a 1 in 4,292 chance of being struck by a car as a pedestrian, are you going to take my word for it and stay clear of roads or say it's less likely to happen than being in a car crash? What if I add that if the vehicle is traveling at 30mph then you have a 50% chance of surviving? Or if it's traveling at 40mph then it decreases to a 10% chance of survival? Now that the facts have been presented, you ignore my words and go for a jog and are hit by a car. There's a huge chance you're going to die, even if the vehicle was traveling under 30mph. If you somehow survive, are you going to turn around and blame the person who gave you the statistics when it was your decision to set foot on the road? And don't even think law enforcement will be on your side because they won't. They will tell you it was your fault. You were the one who risked jogging on a road that only cars should touch because cars always have the right-of-way. Pedestrians don't and never will. (source: I've been hit by a car) The police won't pat your back and point their finger at the random person who gave you a statistic.

Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

I want to thank Netgalley for providing me an Arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Okay I’m OBSESSED with this book.
I absolutely cannot say I loved it enough.
I love the far it was about hacking and coding. Seeing a sting female character portrayed as a top coder was really amazing.
I felt so much for our main character I admired the fact she was a virgin and wasn’t doing what everyone else was doing because she wasn’t ready.

What got to me the most In this book was out main character dealing with trauma after she was sexually assaulted by her then boyfriend.
It was handed so delicately I felt like I was on the journey with her while she dealt with the stress, self doubt and humiliation over what happened.

Overall this book was amazingly written and carries a very important message. I gave it a fully deserved 5 stars.

**I received this book from netgalley in exchange for my honest review, this is my opionion and mine only**

At first it took me a little bit to get into, only because I wasn't sure when this took place. the whole coding and gear and all that, on top of a school that promotes abstinence I was thinking futuristic dystopian or something. to have a principal that is like that teaching the kids the way they were, the parents being so anti pill, etc..i couldn't figure it out, until i just went with it, once I did I sank into the book and loved it, I love how all of the questions on the blog were relevant to some sort of thing going on today, or something that or they were questions that a teenager could really learn something about. It touched on everything from gender identity to protection with sex, to male rape.

I really liked this book. Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read it.

I'm a huge fan of Molly E. Lee so I was excited to read this book and I did enjoy it but I would defintley say it is for more mature YA readers. I felt like for some of my older HS kids this would be a very valuable read. The questions that are answered on the Ask Me Anything site are good questions with solid answers and it's clear Lee cares about getting the right info out there. I liked the romance, I like the main character and I liked the way that it took ideas of assault and dealt with them. I am actually teaching Speak right now and I feel this would be a good story to recommend to some of my more mature readers. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

I’m loathe to use ‘text speak’ or modern colloquialisms in a review but this is one woke novel.

Let’s set aside the hacking and wicked computer coding skills, because this is only a small part of the story, and let’s be honest here - well over my comprehension.

Sex education is not a how to. I repeat it is NOT A HOW TO. Teenagers have, are and will continue to engage in sexual behaviour regardless of their level of education in it. The importance of such education is to ensure that they go into it with armed with enough knowledge to make an informed choice. This is something severely lacking in modern curriculums. So I naturally loved the idea of an anonymous, supportive and helpful blog where young women could ask the tough questions and get the help they needed when other avenues were not open to them.

But the hook for this book for me is dealing with the trauma and stress of a sexual assault. The guilt, the self doubt, the protective walls, and the total fear of letting a new person in after such an event.

All of it was treated so tenderly, so sensitively, that it’s basically a novelisation of an Ask Me Anything blog.

Well written, well-developed characters, Well done!

Thank you to Molly E. Lee, Entangled Publishing LLC, and NetGalley, I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

3.5 stars for the originality and great concept. The summary reminded me of Netflix's "Sex Education", which is a show that I absolutely love for its originality and quirkiness. I was expecting this to be similar and it kind of started off that way but it didn't deliver as I hoped.

I found myself wishing for more quirkiness and more fun. I wish there was more of an in-depth representation of coding and not just a mention of the characters sitting at their laptops, coding away. I wanted more of the blog, more of what made it unique and refreshing, rather than the basic and typical teenage filler/fluff.

Amber was an okay lead. Something about the "victim" storyline didn't sit right with me and the fact that it kept repeatedly coming up as though she was going to have to overcome this and have some major character development didn't pan out the way I thought it would. In fact, perhaps it's horrible to say, but I actually found it quite a bit annoying. And Dean, aka Mr. Dreamy Hacker boy, was okay too. He didn't piss me off nor did he stir up some other emotions in me. He was just fine. In all honesty, they were kind of forgettable characters.

The one part of the book that actually had me cheering was the blog post about women empowering each other instead of tearing each other down. That resonated with me and was so glad to see it discussed, fiction or not.

We're constantly told that Amber is strong, but we don't "see" it until we're 60% of the way through and by that point, it's hard to believe. I don't want to be told that she's strong. I want to be able to read it and feel it. She was broken about something and she eventually overcame it, but even when she had the opportunities to stick up for herself, her knight and shining armor came in to save the day. I wanted her to come full-circle with the blog in the end by shouting it from the rooftops and was kind of disappointed that she didn't.

Side note - What's up with all these male love interests in YA novels letting out "growls" from their chests? Why is this a thing? How is this a thing? Has it always been a thing and I've never been so bothered by it until recently? Can we please stop describing sexual tension with "a growl rumbled from his chest" and etc? Please? Really. Every time I read "growl" a little part of me dies. No one "growls" in real life unless they're some kind of animal. It's not sexy. Kay, thanks.

*** I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of ASK ME ANYTHING by Molly E Lee. All thoughts and opinions are my own.***

Fed up with her school’s antiquated abstinence only approach to sex ed, Amber creates an anonymous sex education blog ASK ME ANYTHING not realizing her crush and coding rival Dean would be tasked with finding the source of the blog.

I love female centric, sex positive books for teens. ASK ME ANYTHING conveys that message without ever being a Book With A Message. Although she’s had a boyfriend for a while, Amber’s a Virgin by choice, not until marriage, but until she decides she’s ready and with the right person. Most of her friends are sexually active and assume she has been, but she’s open and honest when asked. Amber doesn’t feel pressure to be anyone but who she is. She’s a great role model, fighting against lack of information under the guise of education.

I’m old enough to have sexually active grandchildren, so I didn’t connect as much to the coding subplot, but I think it will appeal to teen readers with a nod to Amber being a superior coder who happens to be a girl (as opposed to a girl coder).

ASK ME ANYTHING is a rare book I’d recommend as appealing to all readers.