Hidden Heartbreak by Emma Lee was interesting enough while I was reading but ultimately mostly forgettable and a skim read most of it.

I originally just requested this book because the cover looked cute, but I didn't expect it to make me so emotional! Definitely recommend!

Nice, The book gives to our heart and brain something for to think about. I really hope that someday this book will be released in Brazil.

Este libro ilustrado es una compilacion de viñetas que la autora comparte sobre la evolucion del rompimiento de una relacion hastala sanacion mental.
La idea del arte en su vida nacio como un medio de sanacion para recuperarse de una ruptura. En la introduccion ella comenta que amaba mucho a un hombre y que ese hombre dejo de amarla en determinado momento.Asi que una manera de desahogarse fue el plasmar lo que sentia en dibujos que poco despues subio a instagram y con muy buena recepcion se hizo popular.

*Comienza contando las expectativas sobre una relacion, habla de las personas que aman intensamente que no reciben en misma cantidad ese amor, posteriormente pasamos a esa etapa en la que la relacion se enfria se vuelve las seria gracias a esto y que apesar de todas las advertencias que se muestran tu no les haces caso.
La parte mas duradera del libro es donde hay una ruptura y es que de esto se trata el libro, de la RESILENCIA.
Que es la capacidad para afrontar las situaciones traumaticas de la vida, como cuando nos rompen el corazon.

Es un libro increible que te hace reflexionar sobre la manera en que vives tus relaciones y que la mejor manera de amar, es amarse uno mismo y despues al projimo. Ademas de que si sufriste una ruptura, pueden desarrollarse cosas bellas despues de ese suceso ya que tienes otra oportunidad de ser mejor y amar mejor.

Gracias a Netgalley por la copia para revision.

'Hidden Heartbreak' by Emma Lee is a book about the journey to love and the heartbreak that can follow.

Starting with the joys of first contact, then moving in to overlooking the early warning signs, this book takes a journey. Along the way, the reader is asked a few questions too. There are answers of a sort, mainly that it takes time, but you can survive a heartbreak.

I liked the candor of this book. The parts for the reader to fill in could have honestly been skipped. The whole thing feels pretty personal, but maybe that's exactly what someone else needs to help them out.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Readers will find a lot to relate to in Emma's work which primarily deals with heartbreak and its aftermath. I think she does a great job getting into the nitty gritty of breakups - the pain, the depression, the hopelessness. The ideas are strong. However, with so many other young illustrators exploring similar topics, this book doesn't quite stand out among the rest.

Well, is ok, but the treatment of "how relations ships works and end..." is kind of lame and superficial, I honestly prefer how is made in "Todo lo que nunca te dije lo guardo aquí" (IDK if is translate), but I guess every break up is different so that's good, but for me this book doesn't start the race when is over and that's kind of patetic.

This book was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing and Netgalley!

Hidden Heartbreak is a graphic novel about heartbreak. I really liked this graphic novel because I could relate to so many drawings. I also really liked the artwork because it was simple but at the same time really beautiful.

I cannot wait to discover more books by Emma Lee!

I have not gone through this scenario my self. But anyone who have ever been in love, been hurt by love or gotten over a love will understand this book. Short funny illustrations show what we do wrong and what our partners do wrong. Maybe these illustrations will help us see when we fall for someone who is unreachable emotionally.

Hidden Heatbreak was originally an Instagram project, believe it or not. It made it to print, which I think is awesome! t's quirky, mildly punny, highlights the need to please & prolong and translate a partner’s feelings & mixed signals, believing that love can solve all, and acknowledging memories of your ex; all while extending questions toward a reader/viewer. Absolutely adorable little book.

Hidden Heartbreak has captured emotions one is going through a break-up, the illustrations are stylish and modern sketches, it is not depressive at all, its a good read and interesting, as graphics gives the visual impression what the author wants to create for the plot. It's funny at times, it is also touching sides of having a different relationship - when a relationship can be toxic. The Hidden Heartbreak brings the reader through the whole relationship process, from it's start till it's over and the leftovers.

This is a cute collection of cartoons about a relationship that ends in heartbreak and how the author looks back on the course of events. It was interesting how she included a few scattered pages that allow the reader to write or draw in their own experiences. I liked Lee’s illustrations and the observations she chose to include in this book.

Hidden Heartbreak starts as Emma Lee's personal experience with heartbreak and how she positively moved from it.

The graphic novel also works as a workbook and could be used by someone to sort out their feelings after a heartbreaking relationship. I don't know if the format would suit me but it could be beneficial for a more visual person. The illustrations are unique and I feel the art style suits the topic.

As a university librarian, this book would help many of our students deal with difficult relationships on their own. The art therapy aspect would also make for a great class activity, exercise in relating to the book.

Hidden Heartbreak is a graphic novel featuring the course of an affair that ends on a bad break up.

Though it claims to portray the “progression of a doomed relationship from blissful beginning to devastating end”, there was no blissful beginning to begin with! Only the “all blinding euphoria of love” that makes you ignore all the red flags that were present from the very start.


The illustrations were pretty good and definitely funny and relatable for anyone who’s been foolish in love. Who’s ever tried to nurse an emotionally unavailable soul and have been devastated when their love-potion did not work. It’s for anyone who has struggled over a break-up.

There were even activity sheets in-between for reader’s participation. It enquired from what were the first signs we ignored to what closure meant to us. I felt it was pretty thoughtful.
But the book was unnecessarily long that resulted in repetitive illustrations. Also, I felt the punch was missing somewhere. All over the book was nothing amazing to stick with you. But also, it was not bad. I’ll give it a 3.5 out of 5.

I bawled reading this book. It hit home and the tears were very cathartic. Emma Lee's simple allow the reader to see themselves in these figures. I love the way that several of the cartoons are printed blank to help you resolve your issues with your breakup..
I would suggest this to any of my girlfriends to help them deal with their breakup whether it happened last week or last year.

It’s hard to say much about Hidden Heartbreak: From Breaking Up to Waking Up. There isn’t much to it. There is plenty of room to explore lost love in graphic format, with Jeffery Brown’s Clumsy coming to the top of my mind. And while Clumsy is a graphic novel and Hidden Heartbreak is a collection cartoons, the ability to delve into deep-seated emotions is still very much present.
Hidden Heartbreak seems to want to flirt the line between cartoon collection, motivational self-help, and journalistic work book. And in this, it tries to do too much with too little. The places for readers to write things in are few and far between, and given that the rest of the book is more passive, it seems like more of a chore to stop reading, grab a pencil, and fill in a random page. The self-help and motivational aspects are trite and cliché, and do not seem to add anything of significance to a reader’s relational process. And the cartoons are not particularly well done, with most seeming to take the same set of a couple images and then just moving them around. The through-line that connects the cartoons is that of the author’s experience of a break up, which seems to take a personal experience and then generalize it, which also does not work particularly effectively here.
Hidden Heartbreak: From Breaking Up to Waking Up had the potential to be meaningful and deep. Instead, it felt more like a messy hodgepodge of content that tried to be three things at once without actually succeeding at any of them.

Review will appear at the provided link on 2/7/19

I really wanted to like this because the idea was good: it's about a journey that leads to a pretty bad breakup. And even though I can't relate, because I haven't gone through a very impacting heartbreak, I do think it was meant for a more general audience who simply wanted a good laugh through this comic. But I was disappointed when it read too bland and I lost my interest at a few places. Usually, art is always a booster for me when it comes to comics but this one didn't win me in that aspect either. I won't comment on the technicalities of the art since I'm no expert in it but I didn't find it too engaging in the reader.

3.5 stars

I used to follow @HiddenHeartbreak's posts on Instagram as the art and story intrigued me, so when I found out that much of that story had been compiled into a book I was excited to take a look.

I was a little disappointed that it didn't seem to include much art that was new, though it was nice to see the entire story, or healing process, in one continuous stream.  

Hidden Heartbreak is a graphic representation of the author's relationship and where it went wrong.  It does take a look at insecurities some people may have, as well as glimpses of a toxic relationship and how the author worked her way back from it.

I probably would have gotten much more out of this book if I wasn't already familiar with the art, of if there had been more that was brand new, but I felt that this was a great collection of the art from the instagram account.

A heartbroken is a heartbroken but the protoganist takes us through all this journey from the very starting and tells us that there can be a revolutionary time to come over it start from the very beginning .