If you love to hate your main character, then Becky's definitely your girl. But hear me out!

Who among us isn't a whack-job at 29? Trying to make our ways through life, working towards things we think we should want, and ignoring the pain of stasis all to avoid the discomfort of change.

Wayward 29-year-old, Becky, is barely scraping by in life. She's at a job she hates, friend-zoned by an ex she's still in love with, and feeling out-paced by her dearest friends. But after a tarot reader pulls the Death card, she hastily decides to scrap her old life and start anew, writing scathing letters to her friends and family and booking a one-way ticket to Bali.

Most of my time with this book was spent with my head in my hands as Becky made mistakes, doubled down with a stubbornness that'd rival the toughest mule, and then went on to make them again. Half the time I was only rooting for her for the selfish hopes at payout for myself (as in, "Am I really going to read >300 pages of some screw-up who refuses to do any work on herself?"), but let me just say the angst is worth it to finally watch Becky screw her head on right.

All in all, I don't know that Becky and I could ever be friends, but I finished this book feeling a sense of pride in this girl (and maybe the pricking of a few tears in my eyes). Worth the read for a lighthearted, albeit frustrating, bildungsroman.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for an Advanced Reader's Copy in exchange for my honest review.

When I went through the list of books offered for Net Galley's summer camp, I was genuinely interested in this one from the cover and the premise. Then I started reading.

oof.

The main FMC Becky is an intolerable insufferable mess, and PS: she gets worse. 🙃 The side characters are unlikeable. There is essentially no one to like or root for or mildly care about here, and this is not the sort of book where that works. Had it not been for the saving grace of it being a decently short book (though it certainly felt longer at times) and the fact that I buddy read it, this would have easily and unfortunately been a DNF for me. I'm sure there is an audience for it, but it wasn't us. 😅

The book starts off with the main character, Becky, turning 29 and seeing that everyone else around her is farther along in life than she is. She's single, hates her job, and lives with her mom while her friends have successful careers, are in relationships, and live in nice places. As a birthday gift, she receives a gift card for a tarot reading which implies she is going to die. This news makes her take out her anger on her friends (and boss) and write them letters telling them all what she really thinks about them. She realizes that she is not in fact going to die anytime soon but it's too late. Her friends receive the letters, and she ends up losing her job. Will she be able to make amends and make positive changes in her life?

Becky starts off being a super unlikeable character which actually made me slightly not like the book in the beginning. She uses alcohol to cope and seems to take little responsibility for her life. Becky makes growth during the book and realizes it's up to her to fix her life and get where she wants to be, which I think many people will be able to relate with and it changed my opinion of the book in the second half.

3.75

This book was an absolute HOOT. As soon as I saw the description, I requested this one. Imagine having a quarter-life crisis and making life-altering decisions based on a tarot reading you didn’t even really interpret correctly.

If you need a likable main character, then this one isn’t for you. Becky is a hot mess express, but I couldn’t look away.

She writes letters to her friends, being brutally honest and also unkind. She expected to be out of the country by the time they arrived, but that didn’t happen. Now she has to face them head-on. It’s kind of like To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before but… our letter writer is a grown-ass woman who needs to get her life together.

I have been reading a lot of weird little books lately, and I am loving every minute.◽️

Becky has her thirtieth birthday and laments a job that she hates and a past relationship that she thinks could have been the real thing. Her friends have moved on and she feels she is stuck. However, Becky does not suffer alone. She makes mistakes after mistakes which affect others. I can remember feeling like this before and I wanted to offer guidance. The author brought out many feelings with her story. I appreciated Becky’s growth and maturation throughout the book.

Thanks to Netgalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review! 3.5/5

I was very excited by the comedic premise of P.S. You're the Worst, where our main character, Becky, upends her entire (somewhat miserable) life after a tarot reading. I have a vague-to-decent understanding of tarot, but you don't need to grasp anything about it to enjoy this silly-yet-deep story. There's a lot to enjoy about Seager's adult debut, which combines a lot of humor and heartfelt moments with times of serious reflection and self-growth.

One of the best portions of the book to me is Becky's character arc. She started off as quite an unlikeable but pitiable woman of 29, seeming to think her life is almost over (as a 28 year old, that hit). Unsure of her relationships with her friends, in love with an ex who she's friends with now, living with her mother who is quite difficult and judgemental. By the end of the story, every single one of her relationships has changed, and I think almost all of these were done in a great way. The tone of her character is consistent throughout the story, but she's able to reflect on her growth and it's a tangible thing on the page. I enjoyed Seager's choice in making Becky the way she was, and stunting her growth in various portions of the book, oftentimes taking her backwards, and thought that was a realistic depiction of whatever the hell the people (re: us) in their (our) late 20s are doing right now.

I also enjoyed the tone of the story, which was fairly lighthearted, comedic, and something that didn't take itself too seriously while also tackling heavy topics in a respectable ways. There's also plenty of LGBTQ+ representation in this story, and it's done with consideration, respect, and most importantly, ease. It's never explained or even really gone into detail about, which I thought fit this story really well. You love to see an easily bisexual protagonist who is comfortable and assured (at least, in her sexuality. Go Becky.)

However, and this is the biggest part of why I couldn't rate this book higher... I must talk about the writing style. I'm a very prose-focused reader (not by my own wishes, I can promise you) so writing style hugely makes or breaks books for me. And for the first chapter or two, I thought that Seager's style was hilarious and unique in an irreverent, offbeat way. I quite liked the refreshing-ness of it all. But somewhere along the way, and very quickly, it started wearing on me. She makes plenty of use of non-standard styling (I'm unsure of what the proper word would be here), which includes lots of thoughts and phrases IN CAPITALS, things drawn out very looooooong, punctuation that, honestly, I didn't think was allowed (double !! and ??) and... lastly... interobangs. Oh my gracious, there were so many interobangs, I thought it was funny at first, because it's one of those things you'd think an agent would slap you on the knuckles with a wooden ruler for doing, and I was like, "hell yeah, bring back the interobang". But not like this, Chloe. There are ten in chapter 1 alone. I wanted to go back and count (my kindle app won't let me search for them, sadly), but once I hit thirty and I hadn't even gotten to the inciting incident yet, I gave up.

I can't tell if being inside Becky's head is the reason for the style, or if the style is the reason being inside Becky's head was so exhausting by the end. She's perpetually anxious, overthinking constantly, always shouting or what I assume to be shouting by the interobangs and capitalizations, extremely chaotic. I don't think she needed to "mellow out", per se, but I flip-flopped a lot in caring about her solely based on whether I was enjoying the writing style in the moment. The style is Becky, and Becky is the style.

I think this is a very classic case of "your mileage will vary" based on how well you enjoy the type of humor and the style. It is quite consistent the entire novel, save for some more serious moments later on, so if the first chapter puts you off, I don't think you'll recover. However, I am very glad that I stuck it out until the end (even when I felt like a block of cheese being dragged across an interobang cheese grater) and really enjoyed Becky's story for what it was: a very relatable, weird, sad, joyful journey of finding yourself.

I was caught by the cover and the description of this book. Then when I started I worried for a moment that I wouldn't "like" the character who was clearly floundering. But I was quickly drawn into her story and I loved that I was wrong about how I felt about the main character. Loved the integration of tarot...because who hasn't turned to something for some kind of answers when feeling lost! A story about refinding yourself and about working for the relationships that matter.

Thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow for the advanced copy.

I really liked Becky’s journey. She grew up a lot over the course of the book. I definitely related to her in some aspects, like feeling stuck while everyone else is moving on with their lives. But toward the end of the book you found out they weren’t all doing great either. Everyone feels like this at some point in their lives and you just need to find something to help you through it. It was tarot and her friends and support from her mom for Becky. I think one good point to be made was it’s never worth going back to an ex no matter how much we think we should. We left Becky off in a good place though and that gave me hope for her.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

P.S. You're the Worst had a really fun concept. Becky is 29 and really very stuck in her ways. After a tarot reading, she writes a handful or so of spiteful letters during a nervous breakdown, mails them out, and then has to deal with the consequences. Not only did I think it was insane to actually mail the letters out, but I thought it was interesting that she was acting the way she was at 29.

I, like many other reviewers, found Becky to be incredibly immature. That's really her main character trait for a large portion of this book. She wastes her money, hates her job, gets drunk at basically every possible moment, and sabotages all her relationships for no reason. Clearly she needs to get her life together, and thankfully, she actually does (eventually).

I really struggled to read from her "I can do no wrong, but also everyone sucks and so does my life" perpsective for so much of this book. It does come to light that she's been purposely being a bad friend and not taking any accountability, but honestly if I knew someone like this at 29... I think I would have dropped them a whole lot sooner. Hell, Im 25 right now and cant stand when people I know are the same way Becky is in this book.

I will say that Becky does eventually come around. Watching her actually start to reflect on her actions and deal with the hard truths, even when she was upset, was gratifying. She does eventually pick up all the pieces from the mess she made - as she should. There was one part at the end where she congratulated herself for not getting black out drunk or leaving early from her own party (I can't remember the exact scene), and I remember being like "I guess that's an achievement, but that's also the bare minimum and not that impressive"

Overall I found that Becky did have a very strong character arc, but it was hard for me to root for her. Maybe if I was in a different position I would relate to her more, especially because not everyone follows the same path in life, but I really struggled with her immaturity the whole time.

I chose this book to review as my contribution to Camp NetGalley 2025 because I was really excited to read a story that involved tarot, especially one that had a misunderstanding in its interpretation. I could imagine that we were going to see some big changes in Becky’s life, since she was unhappy in almost every aspect of it. She hated her job, was upset with her best friends, still had feelings for her ex-boyfriend, had a complicated relationship with her family… It was just one problem after another. And even though these plots are quite cliché in contemporary literature, I was curious to see how the author would resolve everything at once. Because, honestly, she clashes with EVERYONE she knows in just one day.

At first, I admit I wasn’t enjoying it, but I believe that was the intention: to make us feel a huge dissatisfaction with how Becky was treating everyone around her, acting very immaturely. She sounded much younger than she actually was. At times, I thought she was being genuinely envious, annoying, and intolerant about everything. But then, I started to notice red flags in the other characters, which might seem obvious to us, but she wasn’t seeing them. The real problem was much worse than she thought. That’s when the book became really interesting for me! I wanted to know how she would react when she realized it.

It’s a story about friendship; about the importance of good communication in any type of relationship; about having responsibilities, even when you don’t feel ready for them; about stepping out of your comfort zone, not remaining stagnant if you’re unhappy; and, most importantly, about recognizing who truly deserves to be part of your life. It makes you wonder, who’s always gonna be there for you? And why?

I didn’t completely fall in love with any character, but I liked the ending. I think no one was forgotten.

Thanks to William Morrow Paperbacks for the DRC!

Overall a good read. I think the story moved quite fast and I do wish we had more of Becky's relationship with Max and her friends. We really only get one interaction that is the basis of how we are meant to feel about them. Same goes for Becky's Mom. I think it would have been nice for the reader to perhaps not see things EXACTLY as Becky sees them but more of the the truth. So that when Becky comes to these realizations they don't feel so sudden or quick. ESPECIALLY in regards to Max. She has so many revelations about who he is that feel a bit unearned. It would have been nice to see Max in the story as perhaps Angie views him - which was the more accurate perception. And I would have liked to known more about Becky's relationship with Mom that wasn't just her Mom being a nag or putting her down. So that when they come to terms and makeup it doesn't feel so "putting a bow on it". I do like that Becky from the jump comes across as not so likeable. I don't know if this was the intention but that was the feeling I had while reading the first half of the book: that this was a woman who didn't see herself clearly or her role in her own current situation. I am glad that the author doesn't shy away from that or try to make her more likeable. Becky was someone who had a victim complex and it was nice to see that slowly dismantled. I think the story overall needs more "show" and not tell in regards to the other characters.

DNF This book was not for me, warning, if you are not happy with where you are at in life and an emotional person, then this book is probably going to upset you and make you emotional. However, i won't be criticizing or discouraging everyone from reading it. I read the first few chapters and then jumped to last to have an idea if i really want to DNF it and here is my short review: It is a interesting and compelling story about a woman in her late 20s, approaching a life crisis as she get's closer to her 30s and looks around her life, very unhappy with how things are. While i did not read past Ch 3, the last few chapter i did read tells me it's a decent enough story about coming to terms with life and growth. Il recommend it for someone at a similar point in their life, looking for comrade and a character they can relate to, or someone more secure in their life looking for a good story to delve into.

This book was funny at times but also annoying at times lol. I enjoyed it mostly, but find it would be better suited for someone in their 20s vs 30s+. I enjoyed the tarot aspect and life advice throughout the book. I wouldn’t necessarily read it again, but I am happy I read a new book I probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise.

You know how people think that going into their 30s is super traumatic? Well, imagine that you’re going into your 30s and also believe you’re going to die. That’s the premise of PS You’re the Worst by Chloe Sanger. The book is cute, the main character Reilly is in likable and honestly I found it hard to continue because I don’t do annoying well. But, I’m glad I did. The side characters are well thought out. Overall a fun read.

First, the positives: The cyber is super cute and will absolutely draw readers in. The blurb is also enticing.

However.

This book should have been a DNF, but I did skim until the end.

The main character is absolutely insufferable, there is no discernible plot, and it reads like diary entries from a misanthropic teenager who has absolutely no sense of self or others. Truly, none of the characters is particularly likable and I was not invested in the story at all.

As Randy Jackson said, “It’s a no from me, dawg.”

A fun, sweet, quasi-coming of age story that never took the road I expected. Becky is a mess, but she’s like able and really takes on the challenge of getting her life in order. The characters around her are rich and the story is unpredictable.

P.S. You’re the Worst is a sharp, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt story about hitting thirty and feeling like you’re completely behind in life. Becky is chaotic, self-deprecating, and incredibly relatable,especially for anyone who’s ever questioned their choices (or their entire existence) after a particularly unhelpful tarot reading.
Chloe Seager does a great job of blending laugh-out-loud moments with genuine emotional insight. Becky’s panic leads to a string of impulsive decisions,including sending brutally honest letters to everyone in her life,that are both hilarious and painfully real. Underneath all the awkward humor, there’s a thoughtful look at friendship, self-acceptance, and the messy path to figuring things out.
If you enjoy character-driven stories with flawed but endearing heroines, millennial angst, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, this book is a treat. It’s chaotic in the best way, with just the right amount of heart.
Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publishing house for the chance to read this book, in exchange of my honest opinion.

Becky is a lovable disaster, and I enjoyed watching her get her shit together! A good reminder that you’re never too old to grow up.

I ended up enjoying the book in the end, but it was slow to start as the main character is quite unlikable at first. Which is understandable because she has a lot of growing up to do in the story. The side characters are quirky and loveable. And the descriptions of the everyday life in London is always fun as an American who has only visited a few times on vacations. It's a fun and short read. It just takes a bit to get into because you really find the main character annoying and unrelatable.

This was a quick read and overall good! Becky is 29 and experiencing the ups and downs of life which I think a lot of people in their 20's and early 30's can feel too! Therefore, her character is relatable.

After getting a tarot reading and being scared she may die, her life is turned upside down. However through the chaos she finds the advice/life lessons and makes more sense of her life. This book had some humor and I liked the pop culture references!