The Story of 8 Best Friends - Way Too Many Emails

Whether you've followed "Hey Ladies" and Caroline and Michelle from the early days at The Toast or you are just now joining, you are ahead for so many laughs. They've captured the conversation and make you feel like you are a fly on the wall sneaking a peak at the computer screen. So happy it's now a book. It's definitely one worthy of it's own email thread!

If you've ever: attended a wedding, planned a shower, bought a plane ticket for a bachelorette party, or sent an email or text, then this book is for you. A hilarious celebration of how plans unfold via 100-chain emails, "Hey Ladies" will keep you in stitches from the first mass email, to the last text, with a million exclamation points in between. Loved it!!!!

This book is truly hilarious and the perfect quick read for your upcoming vacation or day at the beach. I never thought I’d find myself relating so hard to some character who I would describe as privileged as the nicest way to put it...but there’s a Hey Ladies in all of us. I couldn’t put this down and finished it in one sitting. The email epistolary novel has a lot of places to go wrong but this book does it perfectly.

A perfect snapshot of female friendship that every woman will see herself (and her friends) in.

I loved this column at the Toast, and I was definitely not disappointed by how the book expanded and built on the Hey Ladies legacy. Plus, it's adorable!

Hey Ladies! is hilarious, with many moments of recognition of friends (and sometimes ourselves), yet tempered by the authors' obvious affection for their characters. It's both a tremendously enjoyable read, and valuable insight into the ways in which women relate to, and care for, one another.......Mrs. Herbie

READ THIS RN. The most on point book about modern female friendships you will ever read. I read it twice within 2 days. I have been pushing it on all my friends. Seriously stop reading this review and buy it, now!!

Absolutely brilliant- hysterical. As someone who has gotten these emails and rolled their eyes, I just really appreciated the chance to laugh (and cringe a little) at it. Best part is the sig quotes- and the pictures- and generally the whole thing. My girlfriends and I are renting a summer place and I'm literally getting extra copies to give them for beach reading!

This was unreadable - I mean literally I couldn't read it. This is supposedly the Kindle edition, but it appears to be just a bunch of scanned emails. You can't adjust the font size or do any of the usual Kindle functions. There is some problem with the contrast; everything is grey on grey and doesn't have any way to adjust it. I imagine this I some artistic decision by the authors, but it literally is not worth wading through the tiny font to read pages of emails just like the ones my friends and I have sent each other in the past 10 years. Do not recommend!!

Each of the characters were so incredibly unlikeable. This book felt like a mockery of female friendship in the guise of a lighthearted comedy. I really wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t.

I loved this book from beginning to end.

It reminds me of text chains (except theirs is email) my friends and I would have back in the day.

These girls made me laugh out loud on every page for one reason or another.

Let me introduce you to some of the girls and my thoughts on them:

Nicole - She was constantly looking for people to pay her way and used the excuse that she was starting up her own business (Nicole the Runway - like Rent the Runway) and she had to save every penny for her seed fund

Ali - She loved to control everything and anything, she would always go as far as paying for things (expensive things) without asking and then expect the girls to send her their portion ASAP

Jen - the typical NYC girl who moves to NJ to be with a boy, then she is dead set that he is cheating and goes crazy and plans to cheat herself, and then to have him propose that night (let's just say she shouldn't be getting married lol).

Now, is this the next great American novel? No! Is it funny? Relatable? Yes!

I loved every page and I could think of girls in my life or people I know that fit each part.

I think everyone should grab a copy and sit back, relax and laugh!

This book was literally the funniest thing I’ve read ALL YEAR. While I’m not a big fan of chatroom/email-heavy fiction, the format works incredibly well for this book! It’s real and hilarious and I loved going on a year long journey with all of the MCs.

My only critique of the book would be that sometimes the characters’ voices would all blend together and make it hard to discern their separate personalities. It only happened a few times but sometimes the authors lost the voice of certain characters.

All in all, though, I really loved this book. It was very laugh out loud funny, it was heartwarming, frustrating, and silly and isn’t that what good friendship is?! I’m a bit confused on why certain people went into this book expecting some life-altering literary fiction book. It’s a silly read about a group of zany friends in NYC. Of course Hey Ladies! isn’t going to be Madame Bovary; this book has no illusions about what it is and what purpose it serves. It’s supposed to be a lighthearted, relatively quick read. It’s not meant to make you ponder life. I’ve also skimmed a few negative reviews and saw that some people considered it “shallow?” Well.... duh. How deep and introspective can a book be if it’s constructed of emails and texts by late 20-something year olds, lol. I would even venture to say it does toy with some deeper thought/meaning at a few points in the story but ultimately it’s only meant to be a funny book about modern-day female friendship and that’s all it claims to be so I don’t know why people expected it to move mountains within their souls.

It’s a cute book. I really liked it, it was funny, sweet, and well-formatted with cute pictures and diagrams and I think more people would enjoy it if they stopped being snobs! (This is coming from a former English Lit major)

Listen, did I hate something about every single one of these women, except Gracie, who is me, and therefore perfect? Yes. They’re all terrible people who you care about in the way you care about your family even though they’re terrible. When *spoiler* can this book even have spoilers? Ali is passed over at first to walk down the aisle even I felt bad for her and I hate her and my best friends name is Ali so that should really say something. The something that it should say is that you will hate all these women. And you will love them because they are not real but you know them and you cherish their bs all the way down because they’re your women and I think that’s what this book is about, in a roundabout way. I loved it.

Even as 'satire', this book is derisive of women, as all of the characters are completely self-absorbed and arrogant, as well as sniping each other behind one another's back. It's not even funny, as badly as it wants to be and thinks it is.
The format is also hideous, written as 100% emails and text messages (mostly emails.)
Spare your time and money, go find a real book.

The bachelorette party planning emails on The Toast (RIP) remains one of my favorite things on the Internet. I have to assume that anyone who gave this book a low rating would not appreciate (or even know about) a site like The Toast, and in that case, this book is not for them. I nearly choked to death laughing while I read this. As a millennial woman who has participated in her share of "hey ladies!" emails, this book was deeply relatable and downright delightful.

This book is hilarious. First, in all seriousness, it is vitally important that all ladies read this book.

I found out that I’m part Katie and part Morgan but like, with hints of everyone else except Ali and Jen. Laughing at these girls also totally healed the parts of me that have been burned by the overbearing Ali and Jen types. You would know what I mean if you’d read the book already. Duh.

I really wanted to like this book, but the characters were so shallow, they had no redeeming qualities. I thought the format would be something fun and different, but found it annoying after a while.

Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many EmailsThis wonderfully captures the frustration and hilarity of coordinating social lives with a group of girlfriends. It's super relatable to anyone who's ever been in a bridal party with even the most "low maintenance" bride or even tried to make simple plans with friends via email. It perfectly captures one of the greatest mysteries (to me) of our time: why, in the age of everyone being glued to their phones, are people too lazy to do simple google searches?

I really wanted to like this book, but the characters were so shallow, they had no redeeming qualities. I thought the format would be something fun and different, but found it annoying after a while.

Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many EmailsThis wonderfully captures the frustration and hilarity of coordinating social lives with a group of girlfriends. It's super relatable to anyone who's ever been in a bridal party with even the most "low maintenance" bride or even tried to make simple plans with friends via email. It perfectly captures one of the greatest mysteries (to me) of our time: why, in the age of everyone being glued to their phones, are people too lazy to do simple google searches?

One of my favourite books ever. Laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish, and a go-to book for a morning commute. This book will make you feel better about being a bridesmaid, not being a bridesmaid, have a wedding and not having a wedding. I'm forcing all my friends to read it and buying everyone copies!

Hey Ladies! is deliciously tongue-in-cheek. Definitely buy two copies because reading it will make you realize you know somebody who needs to read this book. Would make a great favor at a bachelorette party!

I hated nearly everyone in this book. These are women that have terrible relationships with each other. They are shallow, passive aggressive, completely self involved. I get that this was the point of the book, but I hated the women so much that I couldn't even find it funny. I just spent the whole time reading hoping that bad things happened to 6 of the 8 "friends."

This book is hysterical. My wedding is in 6 weeks and this book made me feel a little less crazy. While the characters are wild, it’s fun to identify with them as there’s a little part of me in each of them, and I can certainly say they each remind me of a friend in a way too :-) I passed this along to one of my bridesmaids and she’s loving it too. Perfect, easy, funny summer read.

Does anybody have as sharp an ear for the nightmarish (and hysterically funny) email threads so many people find themselves sucked into in their 20s and 30s (please don't tell me they persist after that...)? Snort-laugh out loud funny and impossibly specific, this is bound to be a cathartic read for anybody with a 75-message party/vacation/wedding-planning email thread in their inbox.

I've been reading the "Hey Ladies" column since the start, and the writing never stops being funny. I've accidentally burst out laughing on the train multiple times while reading this book. It's totally worth it. The perfect gift for anyone in your life who has been part of a "Hey Ladies" email chain, or a nice treat for yourself. It's the perfect beach read.

For every bride, brides maid, bridal,partnand mother of the bride, this is a must read!! You’ll laugh and shake your head, but it’s spot on!! i’m an MOB and absolutely loved it! I even gave a few copies as game prizes at the bridal shower. If there is a wedding in your life, read this!

This is by no means a “funny” display of female friendship. It’s insulting.
With friends like these...who needs friends?? The point of this was to be funny, I think... but it misses the mark SO. BADLY. These women are petty, self absorbed, obnoxious... did I mention self absorbed?
Yes, we have all been on these “hey ladies!” email chains but I don’t know any friends that talk to each other like this, and if you do, that’s sad and you need new friends. Save your time and money, this is trash.

Such a great continuation of the Hey Ladies series formerly of The Toast (RIP)!! Each of the girls is a little bit horrible (except Gracie) but the authors manage to make you kind of love them anyway. I laughed out loud many times!