Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
By Joya Goffney
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Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is a story of an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears. It’s a heartfelt, tortured, contemporary YA high school romance. Fans of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Kristina Forest’s I Wanna Be Where You Are will love the juicy secrets and leap-off-the-page sexual tension.
“A hilarious and swoonworthy story.” —Kristina Forest, author of Now That I’ve Found You
“A fun, emotionally rich romance with a sweet, imperfect character who will win your heart.” —Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew
Quinn keeps lists of everything—from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud” and all the boys she’d 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 missing . . .
Then an 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 doesn’t know who to trust. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett—the last known person to have her journal—in a race against time to track down the blackmailer.
Together, they journey through everything Quinn’s 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.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Epic Reads Recommended Pick at Target
A Kirkus Children's Best Book of 2021
Joya Goffney
Joya Goffney grew up in New Waverly, a small town in East Texas. In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items, like “hug a random boy” and “eat a cricket,” which inspired her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside to attend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides.
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Readers find this title to be a great read with well-developed characters and thought-provoking themes. The story is filled with laughter, smiles, and a powerful message about breaking stereotypes. Overall, readers loved everything about this book and found it to be amazing and life-changing. Highly recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved everything about this book. I laughed, smiled ,just amazing!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This story gave me continuous laughter and smiled whiling reading it. Quinn and Carter’s personalities complemented each other well. I loved Olivia. I low key wish I had a friend like that in high school. This was a great story over all. Highly recommend!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book everything about it has changed my life Thank you!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book makes me think, what would I have done if I used lists to guide my life in High School? I loved the characters and the different definitions of family through 4 different teenagers eyes. Great read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54.5 stars. A good read about facing your fears. Well done.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5''I need you to be aware that our differences will get us different outcomes in life. And I need you to know that
just because I don’t fit into your stereotypes, that doesn’t mean I’m any less Black'' THIS PART RIGHT HERE!!!!! Why can't people understand that?? I speed trough this book so fast I loved it2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received this audiobook from NetGalley to give my honest review. The book is read with a synthetic voice only for early review use, and doesn’t reflect the audiobook, that do not use synthetic voices.This debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by author Joya Goffney is a contemporary YA high school romance. Quinn, an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears. Her lists keep her sane... until her journal goes missing. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett—the last known person to have her journal. Quinn doesn’t know who to trust, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love.I was attracted by the book cover, that is released on May 4, 2021. I can relate to the main characters journal of lists. Personally, I have a journal for different reasons (i.e. daily To-Do list, etc.), but not a list of my fears. I found a lot of the subject matter redundant, and I was taken aback with explicit language, sexual innuendo and some adult like content. I had to remind myself of the age, and generation differences. The story addressed aging, cyber bullying, and racism. I thought the end of the novel wrapped up in good order. The synthetic voice was monotone, and gave me pause to the rhythm of the story, and contributed to the reason why I found the novel mundane.#ExcuseMeWhileIUglyCry#NetGalley