I was not a fan of this book. Although this was an insightful and genuine look into the plight of ending high school and the relationship that many leave behind, the overall tone was mopey and the main character was in denial the whole time, and it was really irritating to read her narration. I would consider reading another book by this author, but I did not like Lu in this book, even though my teenage self probably would have related to her.

I only made it about 7% in, but something about this book and me just weren't clicking. I think it is Lu's character.
Look I find joy in people watching and listening to their drama, but I'm not going to stalk a couple to listen to their story, wth?? And seeing the synopsis involves said couple who don't even know she exists I'm pretty sure I know the route this book is going and I'm not going to like it. Lu is a senior in high school and I understand heartbreak is difficult, but she is taking it a bit far and it seems like she is letting her life drown because of it. She's upset her ex hasn't come to meet her the last 4 times she's tried, yet I'm thinking she's getting a bit obsessive with him and it isn't healthy.

So, knowing I would dread picking this one up again, I'm doing myself a favor and walking away. I read less than 10% though, so I won't leave a rating.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC of this book.

I absolutely love the way Adi Alsaid writes, with such authenticity and emotion that conveys exactly what needs to be said. What an amazing book!

I wasn’t able to get into this story. It didn’t grab me, unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish. I liked the idea but it just wasn’t for me.

Meet Lu.  A whiny, eighteen year old who thinks life is horrible because her boyfriend broke up with her.  Ever since her boyfriend broke up with her, she can't write.  This is a huge problem because she writes for a popular online blog that is connected to a scholarship for college.  Without it, she can't go.

Her column is about love.  Think Sex & The City vibe column.  She has written about her love and about what she hears around her.  She meets a cute young man on a park bench and ends up eavesdropping on his conversation with his girlfriend where they break up.  This gives Lu the fantastic idea to write about couples that break up before they go off to college.

Honestly, this whole book is Lu going on and on and on AND ON about how she can't write and how if she could just write about Cal and his girlfriend she will be set!  Does she start to fall for Cal?  Come on now...what do you think?  Seriously though, I could barely handle Lu and all of her pity me attitude.  Even her best friend gets tired of her crap.

This is truly a young adult novel.  I think if 18 year old me read this, I'd be like YAAAAASSSS GIRL YAAAAASSSSSS.  But the 30-something me is like, get over it.  Haha.  Keeping in mind that she truly drove me bonkers with her whiny self, I am going to rate this book twice...because again, 18 year old me would have fawned over this and been like, ugh, why can't anyone feel for Lu. 

4 stars for the 21 and under crowd.  3 stars for the over 21 crowd.  Why?  This book truly will resonate with the younger crowd who is going off to college.  They will have all the feels for this read.  I just...don't.  Not that it wasn't a well written book, it was, it's just I wanted to duct tape Lu's mouth shut, hahaha.  The overall message of the book was good and in the end, I am happy how everything turned out. 

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I desperately wanted to love this one. In fact, I tried to force myself for about half of it to believe I did until I finally gave in and faced the truth. This book is just ok. The plot itself isn't bad, but the characters are all tropes and the main character unlikeable. Three stars only for the plot.

I thought this was a great book-- my first time reading this author, and I thought the characters were intriguing and the storyline was unpredictable as well.

Thought it really captured the feeling of the loss of young love and actually have already recommended to a coworker as well as a customer or two.

This book drove me completely insane. Not in a good way.

Lu, the main character who is dumped after high school graduation and faces ever-dreaded writer's block just when her writing matters the most, was funny and easy to relate to sometimes, but, MY GOSH, she absolutely annoyed the heck out of me.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is exactly what the title implies, minus the brief part. It honestly felt like this book would never end. (I apologize to the publisher who granted me this eARC for the very delayed review. I did my best, I promise. I related most to Lu when thinking about the fact that I, too, had missed a writing deadline so repeatedly and horribly, but it was all a part of the experience, right?)

Lu is a writer for a teen magazine called Misnomer, where she writes a column on the subject of love. Except, Lu doesn't do much writing at all during the course of the book because her ex-boyfriend, Leo, breaks up with her because he doesn't see how their relationship can survive long-distance when they both go off to college in the fall. She sinks into a cycle of depression, writer's block, and acting out to avoid feeling the impact of her break up and her heartbreak.

This all sounds like an engaging story to me, especially because the blurb claims that the book is a touching exploration of love, but this book ended up being a dud for me because I couldn't connect with Lu because her destructive cycle repeatedly gave me anxiety and I wished she would just talk to someone about what she was going through. This book is true to life and felt raw and real, but it was just too anxiety-inducing for me to really enjoy it.

I was frustrated with Lu more often than I was able to relate to her, making the entire experience of reading this book very stressful and irritating rather than engaging and cathartic.

I wish I had more to say because I had such high hopes for this book and really expected to enjoy it, but in the end it just wasn't quite the right match for me.

Overall, I think Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is a very realistic, hearthfelt look at what it's like to be a teengager and experience love, a first break up, and the crushing weight of having to make decisions and meet requirements that can affect the rest of your life.

Teens and young adults will undoubtedly relate to many of the experiences Lu goes through on her journey to recover from her first heartbreak, and I'm sure there are readers out there who will love this book, even though I didn't.

Rating: ★★

A fun high school read of relationships, friendships and the daily struggles of being a teenager. I enjoyed this book and would recommend to any young adult on the verge of change or questioning life's impending developments.

In Brief Chronicles of Another Stupid Heartbreak, we get an outsider’s perspective of a couple in love. Lu, a love columnist for Misnomer, is on a mission — to interview couples during the summer before they go their separate ways for college; will they try long-distance or call it quits before the going gets rough? Lu finds herself obsessed with storybook-esque couple Iris & Cal, and is determined to interview them & hopefully break out of her writer’s block.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the chance to read and review, "Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak" by Adi Alsaid. I still enjoy the YA genre. I found this book a lot harder to relate to. Lu's story could have taken a much more interesting turn. I found myself getting bored as the story continued.

Another winning book from Alsaid, who has a knack for writing incredible and complex protagonists. A sweet romantic comedy about one of the most uncertain times in a teenager's life. Hand this to fans of his three other books, especially those who are heading to college soon.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I really loved this. Adi Alsaid crafted a beautiful story that I deeply cherish.

This one is very hard for me to pin down. I just didn't like the main character. She was whiny and super disrespectful to her new friends...and her old friends. I also just didn't get the relationship with her and Leo...I think if this was a second book...where we knew more about the characters and had developed a feeling for them at some point it would have went over better but really it was difficult to want anyone (other than Cal and Pete) to have a good life.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid, is a young adult look at love.  I thought this was an interesting story. It covers first loves, friendship and coming of age, and break ups. Not my favorite young adult book, but a good overall book.

reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and the publisher. Thank you.

This was fun but overall not something that I fell in love with. The characters didn’t have any spark to them in my opinion.

Inkyard Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is the story of first love and the heartbreak that can follow. Recently graduated high school student Lu Charles has been dumped by her boyfriend because of their impending matriculation at different colleges. As the teen love and relationship columnist for a online magazine, this development has an adverse effect on Lu's ability to write. Will Lu be able to turn out a series of articles after being inspired by a couple of strangers or will her future be jeopardized?

As a whole, I found this book to be completely unrealistic. Lu has a scholarship for college that is directly tied to her job at the online magazine, yet she wallows in her own misery instead of cranking out even the most mediocre of columns. Lu comes across as a whiny, petulant child instead of a young lady that has worked hard to secure a future as a journalist. Heartbreak can be completely overwhelming, but I found it hard to believe the outcome of Lu's story. The book was repetitive and sluggish, as Lu struggles through her feelings for more pages than I could count. The family dynamic, Lu's mother's overbearing nature in particular, seemed out of place and did nothing to move the story forward. In a genre full of novels with similar subject matters, Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak just did not measure up for this reader.

I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately and this book was what I needed to start to pull myself out of it. I was expecting something a little bit different than the story I got, but I still found this book highly enjoyable and interesting.

Lu, the main character and narrator, is extremely relatable. She's a writer stuck in a block because of a recent breakup. She writes about love, so suddenly finding herself of out if makes it hard to focus on what's shes supposed to write. She's also a recent high school graduate and dealing with the idea of everything in her life is changing very quickly. Her relationships, her friendships, everything. In this, she finds a hyper-fixation-- a couple she overhears breaking up in the same way she and her boyfriends broke up a few days before. 

I greatly enjoyed this storyline and found how the book ended incredibly refreshing. Obviously, I don't want to give spoilers, but it was very satisfying to see things turn out the way it did. 

I think this is a great book if you're looking for something between a breakup book and a romance book. It was a quick read that I greatly enjoyed.

I'll start right off by saying I am definitely not the target audience for this book. Usually, I love YA books, even YA romance. However, I had a hard time relating as an adult to the angst that Lu is going through in the story. There were times when it brought me back to my first big breakup. But didn't make me nostalgic enough to love the book. I did like the characters and their relationships Pete was a rbeath of fresh air and I liked his no-nonsense way with Lu. I didn't like Lu's eavesdropping tendency. I thought that was a little weird and stalkerish. I think given the right audience, this book will do well. It is well written. I'm just ultimately not the right one for it.

The summer before college is the summer that experiences the most heartbreak of any teenage summer. At least, this is what Lu believes after her boyfriend dumped her letting her know that long distance wasn't something he was willing to do. Lu believes that she could change his mind if only he would meet her and listen to her well planned reasoning. While waiting for him to meet her one day she shares a bench with a witty, kind boy. After a fun, brief exchange she thinks that she will never see him again.

She couldn't possibly know that bench boy, Cal, and his girl friend, Iris, would become her obsession for the summer. Having overheard Iris break up with Cal in the same way that her boyfriend broke up with her she decided that she needed to know them. This was facilitated by Cal dropping his wallet--Lu needed to return it. When she does she finds out that Cal and Iris are still together.

If things could be different for them surely they could be different for her. Lu decides that the only thing that break her writers block for her teen love column is writing about their love story. Their love story could be her answer and salvation. She then spends her summer following them around and involving herself in their stories.

This book was interesting in that this was a story at the end. An end of a relationship and season--the cusp of something new. New things do happen--we don't get to know what those new things really are, the book ends before we can now. The transition is the focus of this book.