Bye Forever, I Guess, Jodi Meadows
Bye Forever, I Guess, Jodi Meadows
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Bye Forever, I Guess

Author: Jodi Meadows

Narrator: Eevin Hartsough

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2024


Synopsis

INGRID’S ONLINE PERSONA IS COOLER THAN SHE IS. CAN THIS GUARDED GAMER GIRL LOWER HER SHIELD FOR A NEW FRIEND … OR MORE-THAN-FRIEND?

Thirteen-year-old Ingrid’s been living a double life. At school, she’s the Girl With Dead Parents, her popular friend Rachel’s charity case. Online, things are different: she crushes it in her favorite MMORPG, geeks out in her favorite fantasy series fandom, and runs a popular social media account. If only real life were that easy.

But when Ingrid finally stands up to Rachel and “starts drama,” it suddenly feels like she has no life at all … and nowhere to sit at lunch.

Until she gets a supersweet wrong-number text from a mystery boy at her school, and everything starts to go right. Spending time together playing Ancient Tomes Online as “Stitches” and “Traveler” makes her feel like she’s really connecting with someone. But when she begins to suspect that Traveler may be a popular classmate who is WAY above her in the cool-kid food chain—and whose original text was actually intended for Rachel—she faces a difficult choice. Can they be friends IRL? She wants to open up, but getting close to people has hurt her before.

Is making real friends only fantasy after all?

Bye Forever, I Guess is the fresh, funny, and deeply sweet middle-grade debut of New York Times bestselling author Jodi Meadows. Speaking to the messiness of middle-school friendships (and first loves), this is a warm, witty, enormously entertaining book—and a love letter to geek culture, gaming, and the healing power of fantasy.

"The most delightful middle-grade romcom I've ever read! Sweet and funny and utterly adorable!"—ELLEN OH, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF FINDING JUNIE KIM

About Jodi Meadows

The Lady Janies are made up of New York Times bestselling authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together, and they hit it off so well they decided to write My Lady Jane so they could go on book tours together all the time. Between the three of them they’ve written more than twenty published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems. They’re friends. They’re writers. They’re fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at ladyjanies.com. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on November 25, 2024

If I had a nickel every time I read a stealth Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail story that I unexpectedly fell in love with this year I would have two nickels but it's weird that it happened twice. I ADORED this and I'm making it everyone's problem. It was so cute and wholesome. I think it's in......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 18, 2024

Fake friends, best friends, and first loves - with all the fixings of a story that is wholesome, charming, and as warm and cozy as a hand-knit sweater. The adorable awkwardness reminded me of Heartstopper at times. Sure to bring a smile to your face, this is a great pick-me-up read. Exactly what I n......more

Goodreads review by Nathaniel on October 23, 2024

I cried several times, I laughed a lot, and mostly I sat within the warm, fuzzy hug of this book and remembered that it is okay to feel confused and scared and alright all at once.......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on October 07, 2024

I think I have a new favorite MG book. 😍 It might actually be my favorite take on the “You’ve Got Mail” but make it modern tropes. It was SO CUTE and a love letter to the invisible girls, knitters, gamers, and the kids who find their people in fandom. ❤️ 100/10 no notes whatsoever I WISH IT WAS LONGER......more

Goodreads review by carson on December 03, 2024

*3.5 This was a very sweet and nerdy middle grade novel. I saw it recommended as a book about a teen who has a famous online identity and I was hoping it would give the same vibes as Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia because that was a favorite book of mine when I was in high school. For a w......more