I received an e-arc of this book from netgalley and this is my honest review.
Original Release Date:
January 10th 2017
Date I Read The Book:
March 2017
My Star Rating:
3 Stars
Official Summary:
Anonymous break up stories from men and women, old and young, serious and silly and the cartoons that inspired them. Author and artist Hilary Campbell turns the painful into the hilarious, validating emotions from forgotten middle school tragedies to relationships that ended only hours ago.
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cartoonist. Her films have won top prizes at Slamdance, SF IndieFest, and more. She was the co-illustrator of Jessica Bennett’s critically acclaimed Feminist Fight Club.Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But You Could’ve Done Better is her first book of cartoons.
My Review: (Vague Spoilers)
I read through this book in about 30 minutes after finishing an essay in class and was waiting for everyone else to finish.
It was enjoyable enough, a short, pretty funny read.
The illustrations are well done and the funniest part of the book.
But several of the submissions feel flat, or were too similar to be repetitively funny. Others were very funny, but with the writing styles and lengths inconsistent, and all the stories being straight, probably unedited submissions from others, it felt like you should get more from a book you buy.
It was pretty funny, and I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t the best.
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