num_pages: 368
description: Excuse 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. Its a heartfelt tortured contemporary YA high school romance with epistolary elements. Fans of Jenny Hans To All the Boys Ive Loved Before and Kristina Forests 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.Quinn keeps lists of everythingfrom the days shes ugly cried to Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud to all the boys shed like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper she never has to face them in real life. That is until her journal goes missingAn 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. Quinn doesnt know who to trust. Desperate she teams up with Carter Bennettthe last known person to have her journalin a race against time to track down the blackmailer.Together they journey through everything Quinns 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.
language: English
title: Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
publisher: HarperTeen