A review by kim_j_dare
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

4.0

It floors me that the same person who wrote [b:The Bad Beginning|78411|The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)|Lemony Snicket|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327916627s/78411.jpg|1069597] is also responsible for this. I loved Min's voice-- her dry humor, her insightfulness, her willingness to take a chance and her self-chastisement after the fact. Being the sap that I am, I was rooting for Min and Ed the whole way through, and did NOT see the ending coming. The artwork was a lovely complement to the story. The only things that bring it down from a 5-star are the over-reliance on old movie references, and the difficulty that I had suspending disbelief about a high school junior writing a 300 page letter to her ex-boyfriend, as cathartic as it might be. Daniel Handler gets teenagers, though, and this was a true pleasure to read.