Reviews

Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Stories About Falling Out of Love by Four Incredible Authors by Ellen Hopkins, Terri Clark, Niki Burnham, Lynda Sandoval

mbrandmaier's review against another edition

3.0

4 cute stories of teens and their heartbreaking breakups. I found it rather unrealistic how all of them were able to find new significant others virtually immediately.

sshabein's review against another edition

2.0

I get the feeling this book is aimed more at ages 13-15, purposely written with characters who are around 16 or 17. When I was just coming out of middle school, I didn’t want to read about kids my own age either. Then again, coming out of middle school, I’d already had a couple boyfriend implosions and was well on my way to a few more. Perhaps I’m not the best judge of who feels what when.

All four stories make the point that while we don’t often find happiness by the path we expected, it’s still possible. Because of that, I can forgive some of the sentimentality. It’s certainly not a perfect book, but your teenager could read far worse.

(Full review can be found at Glorified Love Letters.)