This book is friggin awesome. I loved it so much.

It was hilarious and analytical. Especially told how much of jerks people can be.

Thanks netgalley for granting me an opportunity to read and review this copy

I did enjoy this book and the illustrations were really simple, yet entertaining and beautiful. This book is a collection of break up stories. However, those stories were so short that it felt more like break up confessions. Some were funny and made me laugh out loud, some really made me cringe, and some made me feel so awkward. All in all, the stories are really short but I enjoyed them and the illustrations are beautiful.

This book has short break-up stories and illustrations to go with it. The cover is really simple and this simplicity makes it beautiful. The stories are sad, but the way they are written makes them somewhat funny. There weren't enough illustrations for me to consider it a graphic novel and most of the illustrations weren't even related to the story nor were funny. This book can be read in one sitting. It took less than fifteen minutes for me to finish it.
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do... But You Could've Done Better" would be useful when you're going through a break-up and want to feel better. After all "people are terrible" is the starting and ending line of the book.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
Wow, this was fun, not long......some Oh jaw-dropping moments. Fun art, and a BIG laugh. Sometimes we all need to laugh and that I did.

I liked this book because the stories were original and funny. The cartoons in this book were so cute and the stories were so funny. I would recommend this to anyone for a quick read.

I winced, I laughed (ruefully), I pulled several variants of 'wtf? face'. And having read it all, I'm incluned to agree with the author - humans ARE terrible. But this adds perspective and while I am also a terrible human being I'm significantly less terribble than many. That was good to know. The cartoons were a bit hit and miss for me and some of the stories were just horrible. But still a morbidly funny read.

I am new to Fitzgerald Campbell’s cartoon work, with Breaking Up is Hard to Do, But You Could’ve Done Better being my introduction. This is a bit of a tricky book to review, as the majority of the content is stories of break-ups submitted to Fitzgerald Campbell via twitter and presented here without authors listed. Each of these stories then has an accompanying cartoon. Based on the cartoons included in the book, Fitzgerald Campbell’s work occasionally struck my funny bone, but mostly felt a little flat to me. The stories themselves were sometimes engaging, sometimes bland but mercifully short, yet all felt like pretty standard sponsored link content from Facebook. I wanted to like this book, and I had hoped for more depth out of both the stories and the cartoons. Instead, this was a very quick read that did not leave me feeling much of anything.

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I feel like my feelings about this book are balanced out to middle. A bit indifferent. I wouldn't say it wasn't funny at all, but I haven't laughed out loud once. The little stories kept my attention, though, so I wouldn't say it wasn't worth reading it. They were okay. Anti-climatic at some times, right-out mad at others - they did seem like things that happen occasionally to all of us. I could write a couple of stories like them and I'm sure most of us could. For the little time I was reading this book, it kept my interest and I found the illustrations cute. They are not brilliant or hilarious, though. I think it will be forgettable, but it was a nice one time read.

I gave it 3 stars out of 5, according to NetGalley's rating, as in maybe I recommend it. I'm sure some people might like it more than I did and some will not like it as much. Try it to figure out which one is you! ;)

Quick fun read. The stories reminded me of many of my high school “romances” and brought back memories of the joy of dating and ending relationships. There is a place to submit stories and I have a couple I might share

The formatting on the kindle was @ little odd. First letter of new stories often appeared on the page before.

This wasn't really entertaining at all. It was essentially just a bunch of assholes writing about what assholes they were in past relationships. Hard pass, thanks.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with the eARC for an honest review.

I gave this a two out of five stars. Some of the stories were pointless a few were funny. Some of them included topics with slut shaming, insulting the other person's physical appearance, and misogynistic language. Which I wasn't okay with and still not okay with. Some of the stories seemed like there was only half the story in it.

OK, well... I guess I didn't really want to read a bunch of break up stories after all. Or maybe I just thought I would enjoy them more. But there did not seem to be anything special, or particularly funny, or even unusual about them.

I mean, if you want an interesting break up story, let me tell you about when I finally got the courage to dump my loser boyfriend after he "accidentally" burned my house down. Maybe there is an interesting story like this in the book, but I wasn't able to get to it. I couldn't finish the book.

The illustrations were cute, but they seemed to be just random illustrations. I had expected that they were going to be more like cartoons describing each break up. So my expectations may have affected my enjoyment of the book.

But in reality it's a book of break up stories, and I just didn't enjoy it.

Many thanks as always to Animal Media Group and Netgalley for the review copy. As the author says, "at least there's always more toast."

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

The author has collected break-up stories from the public and drawn cartoons to illustrate each story. For some of the cartoons, I didn't quite get why they went with their story. If you like reading about terrible break-ups, you will enjoy this book.

I hate to say that this unique book is hilarious because it's literally filled with heartbreak - but it is! I see it as the perfect gift (along with a bottle of wine and massive chocolate bar) to a friend who's just been through a breakup - but only AFTER they've gotten over the worst of it! 4 out of 5 wine glasses.

The stories in this graphic novel were both funny and varying degrees of cringe worthy. It could have done without the illustrations and instead included more stories, though.

A short book filled with hilarious stories on breakups which most people can relate to. Recommend to anyone looking for a good laugh.
I received my ARC from NetGalley and Animal Media Group in exchange for an honest review.

Breaking up is the worst thing ever. For those who have gone through, or have seen someone else go through it, then you know this. There is a lot of screaming and crying, hurling of insults and objects which can cause damage. This is the case for most unless you are in that group of people who manage to have a calm-let- us- be- friends kind of breakup.

If that is the case then good for you. Personally I like to be a little dramatic.

As the title suggests, this book is inspired by different people's breakup stories. Each story is followed up by a (related) funny illustration by the author. I was sold on this book by the title but the author's dedication didn't hurt either.

<i>"To that one dude, for being such an inspirational dick."</i>

The stories in this book albeit interesting were a testament to how awful people can be to each other. I get it though, you don't want to be nice to this other person. If you were such a fan of theirs you wouldn't be leaving them. But the stories in this book? I agree with the author, breaking up may be hard, but we could always do better. Of course, it is easier said than done.

***I recommend this book because it will make you feel better about your breakup. If not, at least you'll have something to read over the weekend

As someone who adores humorous graphic novels, I was so excited to read this. It was cute and decent, would be good to read after a breakup (which I am not experiencing currently, so it was a bit hard to relate, but I'll come back to it I'm sure, sigh). Would be very cathartic to read after a breakup for sure, but it certainly didn't reinvent any wheels (or come close).

Got this book courtesy of NetGalley.

I'm not sure I'd say it's a book, more like long Bored Panda post. Never the less, it's a fun read, the illustrations are cute, and most of all - we can all relate to those savage break-up shit, right? Highly recommended!

A compilation of stories and artwork based off the real life breakups of a variety of different people, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (But You Could Have Done Better) is a pretty fun read. All those stories that you used to read in that one section of the magazine have now been jotted down in the pages of a book. From those young middle school break ups to the ones as an adult that truly break your heart, this book does a pretty wonderful job of capturing them all.

Admittedly, I don’t really see Breaking Up Is Hard To Do as the sort of book I would really bother myself to buy, but rather as the sort of book that I’d page through in the bookstore appreciating each story and piece of art inside, and then set back on the shelf. It’s not a reread sort of book, though you can find yourself truly feeling for the people as some of their worst breakups are laid bare in front of your eyes. I did really enjoy reading this book, though I definitely expected there to be more artwork and less text.

Each story is told with a block of text on a page, followed by an illustration or two that captures the general gist of how the breakup went. It doesn’t really follow a graphic novel format or anything like that, which is fine and I think the artist manages to make the compilation work well with her work. I had initially expected it to follow a more graphic novel format, though, having imagined that more of the story would be available in art form. This, of course, would have been much more difficult to portray.

I definitely think this book is worth reading, though probably not really one to reread.