There is solidarity to be found in reading the stories of other people's break-ups. It's the feeling that you are not wrong in thinking that there are many terrible people in the world. You're absolutely right in your assumptions as Campbell explains in the preface. This is just a story highlighting the actions of those terrible people.

I giggled my way through this light hearted read. A great quick pick up & put down book of the confessions of breaking up and being dumped.

This is the kind of book that will make some people feel better about breaking up. I think it's trying to be amusing, but it isn't. This doesn't go much beyond lists of short breakup stories you can find online. Some of the cartoons are cute, but they don't add much to it overall.

Mmmmm, no. Dnf and now I'm sad and want wine. Sad, depressing breakup stories which are just not funny do not great literature make

Sooo funny. There are so many relatable stories!! Even though I am single and anyone have never broken up with me like that, I found it really interesting.
I absolutely loved this book, it is amazing and unique. I found this book very special, and I think that I will definitely re-read this one when someone will break up with me just to laugh after crying. And the illustrations were amazing, too! So accurate.
I recommend this book to everyoneee!!

I gather that this book was supposed to be at least mildly entertaining, and I usually love zany breakup stories, but this was just cringe-y and awful. A few stories offered up some fat-shaming and slut-shaming, and I don't think a single story brought so much as a smile to my face. I also didn't love the formatting or her bits of artwork. All in all, I feel like these stories would be more suited for a text-post-only tumblr blog or something.

Thank you to NetGalley and Animal Media Group LLC for the ARC! All opinions represented here are my own.

3 stars. I loved the premise of the book and its design, but I felt it could have been better. The cartoons were adorable but the stories were just okay. Not as funny as I'd hoped but did get a few giggles out of me.

If you are looking for something refreshing, and need a break from whatever you might be doing I highly recommend you to pick up this book. It took me 1 hour  and a half  to finish it, and it lightened up my whole day and made me laugh out-loud.

The stories that Hilary included and the art she made highlighted the comical side of the break up and I love them for how awesome they are. 

Best break up lines so far

"I swear I'm really busy. I can show you my calendar if you want"

"...Jesus came to him in a vision and told him I was a whore."

I was drawn to this book after having read Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up a little while back, and thought ‘hey, why not?’ This collection of anonymous stories made me giggle and guffaw more than a few times, as it took on the form of those ridiculous whisper confessions, and the illustrations that accompanied each story were just as cute.

My main complaint with this title is that while it is listed under comics and graphic novels, or as sequential art, the illustrations are neither sequential nor do they form a graphic novel. When I first selected the title I was expecting the stories to be completely translated into comic form (which would have been hilarious) rather than being accompanied by a single vignette. Don’t get me wrong, the stories were funny and the artwork spot on – but I would have preferred something that strayed a bit further away from single pane/ editorial comics. Was if fun? Sure! But there was way more that could have been done with these stories for them to be marketed as genuine comics and the collection as a graphic novel.

Would I recommend this book? Of course! It’s funny, relatable, and the perfect little book to leave places where it can be picked up and put down in a short amount of time. Campbell’s comic interpretation really adds to the experience, and reminded me more than a little of Bizzaro and Off the Mark. And, to be quite honest, it could easily be compared to the Bro Code bathroom readers in terms of humour and application.

I found this very funny, and the illustrations were a nice touch. Ideal fun book to give someone for a break up, it cheered me up and made me glad I wasn't on the dating scene anymore!

A collection of true anecdotes about people breaking up. From the weird to the "well I guess it's been time" this illustrated book will amuse you for a couple of hours.

This is a very clever idea, bad break up stories illustrated with simple comics. I mean, who doesn't love a good bad break up?

But this book is severely lacking. It needs something more, either more stories and less comics, or funnier comics and less story. There's just not enough here to justify the book itself. Which is a shame, because again, the idea is fantastic.

Full of heart, laughter and reality. A refreshing, thoroughly hilarious book that follows the stories of people who went through awful break-ups while the amazing cartoonist, Hilary, captures the essence of that sorrowful experience effortlessly in a well-crafted and executed cartoon.

I loved the structure of the book; the typography and layout as well as how it went about with the stories followed by the cartoons made it easier to follow and read. The cartoons, the least to say, were aesthetically pleasing, beautiful and utterly appropriate - amazingly in sync with every reminisced break-up story. I did not found any that didn't narrate the story itself.

The stories were real. And that's all there is to explain - sad, terrible and hilarious, making you bury all hopes of ever being in a decent relationship, but real. I wanted some to be longer, more detailed so that I could connect better but at the end of the day, I respected other people's experiences - if they wanted to write three lines about their break-up then that's what we should get to read.

Overall, a super short, humorous, very realistic and cute (in a weird way) book, filled with positivity and an important message: Get rid of terrible people in your life, the first chance you get!

This was not what I expected. I think I was expecting more commentaries to the stories. Like "That sure was bad, this is how you should have done it..." or "You think that was bad, imagine if it had happened like this...".

But still, it was a funny book. It make strange breakups look a lot more normal, and the normal not so bad after all. It is a quick book I think I would have enjoyed if I happened to be in a bad breakup which would be hard to get over.

The cartoons where nice and quirky (in a good way), but I would like to see them take more space in the book. Some of the stories could have had more than just one picture.

Short, funny book on how realign ships were ended. Some are hilariously funny. My favorite was the lady who had her things delivered to her office and her boss stepping over her undies. Cute hand drawn pics, but some of them were kind of childish looking. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

Love does strange things to us and most have experienced the hardship of a break up at any age. The book is a collection of real life stories depicting the humorous side of a relationship split. .I particularly liked the one where the guy asked for his gift back, which turned out to be black lingerie! It is a short and easy read, maybe helpful if you have been in the situation and the cartoons which accompany the stories are cute and funny.

I was looking forward to reading this book as I thought it would be relatable and amusing. Granted, the anecdotes were quite amusing (some more so than others), but they seemed at times to be so far-fetched that they were difficult to believe.

I really liked the illustrations - they were a really nice touch and really well done.

I read through this book in little over half an hour, and I was glad to have had the eBook version - I couldn't help wondering what I would have done with a hard copy. Once you've read through all of the disastrous dumping stories, you're highly unlikely to read through them again and this book would therefore get sent to the charity shop. I can see that it might make a nice novelty gift for someone that has just been dumped as a way of cheering them up; however, as someone who has very recently been dumped, this didn't bring me enough joy or amusement that I would recommend this to anyone else.

2.5/3 Stars.

This book was sort of a letdown for me . Perhaps I was expecting too much but this was just alright in my opinion. It's a book that was made with really good intentions so I find it hard to say harsh things about it. The author says she was inspired to write this book after she drew a picture about her bad breakup and it made her laugh. She thought she could help others by making them laugh and so her intention was really lovely. However, I'm not judging this book on intentions...

I'll start with the stories themselves. I felt like as a whole, the stories were not long enough. Some stories just needed to be longer so that they could evoke something more in me because they weren't good enough to leave a lasting impression. The bulk of these stories didn't end up being memorable because they didn't evoke any emotion in me or make me laugh unfortunately. There were a couple that I did like though. Another problem I had with the stories was the fact that they read like a magazine section where people submitted their breakup stories and that wouldn't really be appealing to me.

The drawings were cute and I'm glad that the author gets to do what she loves but I felt like some of the drawings were redundant. They just didn't add anything to the overall stories in a lot of cases. The ones that were my favourite were the ones that weren't literal depictions of the stories.

This book would probably be better if you were actually going through some romantic heartbreak. So I would definitely recommend this book to heartbroken people.

*I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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"To that one dude, for being such an inspirational dick."

"People are terrible and they do terrible things to each other and yet still we wake up every morning and we have hope that maybe someday someone won't be so terrible..."

This is another case of the title being what the book is about. Surprise. This is a little book of bad break up stories. Ones where there were misunderstandings. Ones where there was hurt. Ones that were cute, and ones that are sad.

Most of the stories have a little cartoon associated with each story.

This is not a sit down and read all the way through. This is more of a bathroom book, for quickly getting in and out, and coming back to later. Nothing wrong with that.


Thanks o Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.