For most of the book, I was wondering why no one called the cops on Lu. I mean, she was kind of being a creepy stalker. Her obsession with Cal and Iris started to make me uncomfortable. She didn’t even know these people, and they became her whole life.

I understand that she had just broken up with her boyfriend, that situation is a whole other issue, but it got to the point where she seemed incapable of functioning without Cal. She completely ignored real life, and started living this weird fantasy.

I don’t know, maybe someone who has gone though a really emotional break up can relate and won’t find everything as creepy as I did.

I struggled with this one. Lu seemed to have a really unhealthy coping mechanism that I’m not sure needs to be romanticized. Call me a cynic, but I wouldn’t read it again. Adi Alsaid did a good job of creating a main character, she just ended up with a personality I didn’t like.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Author: Adi Alsaid
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019

This one was nice enough but not something I would brag about - sort of irritated me. I think a character who lets love destroy them & then focuses so much on it, just sort of irks me. Especially being so young. I do always love a good YA book though & this was OK enough to pass the time.

Thank you to Netgalley and Inkyard Press for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is the first book by Adi Alsaid, but I know it will not be my last. I was instantly pulled into Lu’s story and couldn’t wait to see what happened.

In the beginning, and throughout the whole book, really, I wanted this weird relationship with Lu and the couple she eavesdropped on – Cal and Iris. I wanted Lu and Iris to become bffs. They seemed to instantly click and they jsut had a nice flow to their friendship. However, Lu met Cal before she met Iris. He sat beside her on a bench where they talked in fake French accents and helped French tourists find their way. They seemed to have instant chemistry and I really wanted Cal to be the one to mend Lu’s heart.

For a while, this weird situation seemed to work. Lu started hanging out with Cal and Iris together, then separate. When she and Cal were together, it seemed like a romantic connection. When Lu and Iris were together, they seemed like they had been friends forever.
Lu had a best friend before all this went down – Pete. He might have been my favorite. He was asexual and Lu described him as her wise old uncle, which he thought was pretty fitting. He was funny and smart and gave the best advice.

Lu was eavesdropping on Cal and Iris because she writes a love column. Since her boyfriend broke up with her, she had writer’s block. She was listening to what she thought was their breakup for inspiration. This is really the central plot of the book – Lu working through her heartbreak so she can write again. Besides, her whole future lies in this column. She has to keep it to get her scholarship to go to NYU for journalism.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak was such a quick, fun read. It made me laugh out loud at times. It also took me back to my past days of high school romance when a break up was totally the end of the world.

I would recommend this book if you like YA romance contemporaries – but the ending will surprise you! I want to say more thoughts about the ending, but I’m scared it’s spoilery so I will refrain.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak was a heartfelt exploration of teen love and heartbreak. The main character, Lu, is dealing with a breakup brought on by the oncoming transition to college and through a chance encounter becomes attached to a couple who she believes embody true love. As she struggles with writer's block and wrestles with her own unresolved feelings with her ex, she questions the nature of love and whether teen love facing separation and the challenge of long distance relationships is fated for tragedy. Lu's struggles with writer's block was immensely relatable to me as someone who also writes, and the feeling that everything hinged on her ability to produce a piece also resonated with me. While I liked Lu's character and her sense of humor as well as the themes explored the book kind of dragged and didn't quite have the spark that would have made it more memorable and outstanding.

I was not a fan of this book. Although this was an insightful and genuine look into the plight of ending high school and the relationship that many leave behind, the overall tone was mopey and the main character was in denial the whole time, and it was really irritating to read her narration. I would consider reading another book by this author, but I did not like Lu in this book, even though my teenage self probably would have related to her.

I only made it about 7% in, but something about this book and me just weren't clicking. I think it is Lu's character.
Look I find joy in people watching and listening to their drama, but I'm not going to stalk a couple to listen to their story, wth?? And seeing the synopsis involves said couple who don't even know she exists I'm pretty sure I know the route this book is going and I'm not going to like it. Lu is a senior in high school and I understand heartbreak is difficult, but she is taking it a bit far and it seems like she is letting her life drown because of it. She's upset her ex hasn't come to meet her the last 4 times she's tried, yet I'm thinking she's getting a bit obsessive with him and it isn't healthy.

So, knowing I would dread picking this one up again, I'm doing myself a favor and walking away. I read less than 10% though, so I won't leave a rating.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC of this book.

I absolutely love the way Adi Alsaid writes, with such authenticity and emotion that conveys exactly what needs to be said. What an amazing book!

Meet Lu.  A whiny, eighteen year old who thinks life is horrible because her boyfriend broke up with her.  Ever since her boyfriend broke up with her, she can't write.  This is a huge problem because she writes for a popular online blog that is connected to a scholarship for college.  Without it, she can't go.

Her column is about love.  Think Sex & The City vibe column.  She has written about her love and about what she hears around her.  She meets a cute young man on a park bench and ends up eavesdropping on his conversation with his girlfriend where they break up.  This gives Lu the fantastic idea to write about couples that break up before they go off to college.

Honestly, this whole book is Lu going on and on and on AND ON about how she can't write and how if she could just write about Cal and his girlfriend she will be set!  Does she start to fall for Cal?  Come on now...what do you think?  Seriously though, I could barely handle Lu and all of her pity me attitude.  Even her best friend gets tired of her crap.

This is truly a young adult novel.  I think if 18 year old me read this, I'd be like YAAAAASSSS GIRL YAAAAASSSSSS.  But the 30-something me is like, get over it.  Haha.  Keeping in mind that she truly drove me bonkers with her whiny self, I am going to rate this book twice...because again, 18 year old me would have fawned over this and been like, ugh, why can't anyone feel for Lu. 

4 stars for the 21 and under crowd.  3 stars for the over 21 crowd.  Why?  This book truly will resonate with the younger crowd who is going off to college.  They will have all the feels for this read.  I just...don't.  Not that it wasn't a well written book, it was, it's just I wanted to duct tape Lu's mouth shut, hahaha.  The overall message of the book was good and in the end, I am happy how everything turned out. 

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I desperately wanted to love this one. In fact, I tried to force myself for about half of it to believe I did until I finally gave in and faced the truth. This book is just ok. The plot itself isn't bad, but the characters are all tropes and the main character unlikeable. Three stars only for the plot.

I thought this was a great book-- my first time reading this author, and I thought the characters were intriguing and the storyline was unpredictable as well.

Thought it really captured the feeling of the loss of young love and actually have already recommended to a coworker as well as a customer or two.

This book drove me completely insane. Not in a good way.

Lu, the main character who is dumped after high school graduation and faces ever-dreaded writer's block just when her writing matters the most, was funny and easy to relate to sometimes, but, MY GOSH, she absolutely annoyed the heck out of me.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is exactly what the title implies, minus the brief part. It honestly felt like this book would never end. (I apologize to the publisher who granted me this eARC for the very delayed review. I did my best, I promise. I related most to Lu when thinking about the fact that I, too, had missed a writing deadline so repeatedly and horribly, but it was all a part of the experience, right?)

Lu is a writer for a teen magazine called Misnomer, where she writes a column on the subject of love. Except, Lu doesn't do much writing at all during the course of the book because her ex-boyfriend, Leo, breaks up with her because he doesn't see how their relationship can survive long-distance when they both go off to college in the fall. She sinks into a cycle of depression, writer's block, and acting out to avoid feeling the impact of her break up and her heartbreak.

This all sounds like an engaging story to me, especially because the blurb claims that the book is a touching exploration of love, but this book ended up being a dud for me because I couldn't connect with Lu because her destructive cycle repeatedly gave me anxiety and I wished she would just talk to someone about what she was going through. This book is true to life and felt raw and real, but it was just too anxiety-inducing for me to really enjoy it.

I was frustrated with Lu more often than I was able to relate to her, making the entire experience of reading this book very stressful and irritating rather than engaging and cathartic.

I wish I had more to say because I had such high hopes for this book and really expected to enjoy it, but in the end it just wasn't quite the right match for me.

Overall, I think Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is a very realistic, hearthfelt look at what it's like to be a teengager and experience love, a first break up, and the crushing weight of having to make decisions and meet requirements that can affect the rest of your life.

Teens and young adults will undoubtedly relate to many of the experiences Lu goes through on her journey to recover from her first heartbreak, and I'm sure there are readers out there who will love this book, even though I didn't.

Rating: ★★

A fun high school read of relationships, friendships and the daily struggles of being a teenager. I enjoyed this book and would recommend to any young adult on the verge of change or questioning life's impending developments.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the chance to read and review, "Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak" by Adi Alsaid. I still enjoy the YA genre. I found this book a lot harder to relate to. Lu's story could have taken a much more interesting turn. I found myself getting bored as the story continued.

Another winning book from Alsaid, who has a knack for writing incredible and complex protagonists. A sweet romantic comedy about one of the most uncertain times in a teenager's life. Hand this to fans of his three other books, especially those who are heading to college soon.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I really loved this. Adi Alsaid crafted a beautiful story that I deeply cherish.

This one is very hard for me to pin down. I just didn't like the main character. She was whiny and super disrespectful to her new friends...and her old friends. I also just didn't get the relationship with her and Leo...I think if this was a second book...where we knew more about the characters and had developed a feeling for them at some point it would have went over better but really it was difficult to want anyone (other than Cal and Pete) to have a good life.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid, is a young adult look at love.  I thought this was an interesting story. It covers first loves, friendship and coming of age, and break ups. Not my favorite young adult book, but a good overall book.

reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and the publisher. Thank you.

This was fun but overall not something that I fell in love with. The characters didn’t have any spark to them in my opinion.

Inkyard Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak is the story of first love and the heartbreak that can follow. Recently graduated high school student Lu Charles has been dumped by her boyfriend because of their impending matriculation at different colleges. As the teen love and relationship columnist for a online magazine, this development has an adverse effect on Lu's ability to write. Will Lu be able to turn out a series of articles after being inspired by a couple of strangers or will her future be jeopardized?

As a whole, I found this book to be completely unrealistic. Lu has a scholarship for college that is directly tied to her job at the online magazine, yet she wallows in her own misery instead of cranking out even the most mediocre of columns. Lu comes across as a whiny, petulant child instead of a young lady that has worked hard to secure a future as a journalist. Heartbreak can be completely overwhelming, but I found it hard to believe the outcome of Lu's story. The book was repetitive and sluggish, as Lu struggles through her feelings for more pages than I could count. The family dynamic, Lu's mother's overbearing nature in particular, seemed out of place and did nothing to move the story forward. In a genre full of novels with similar subject matters, Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak just did not measure up for this reader.

I'll start right off by saying I am definitely not the target audience for this book. Usually, I love YA books, even YA romance. However, I had a hard time relating as an adult to the angst that Lu is going through in the story. There were times when it brought me back to my first big breakup. But didn't make me nostalgic enough to love the book. I did like the characters and their relationships Pete was a rbeath of fresh air and I liked his no-nonsense way with Lu. I didn't like Lu's eavesdropping tendency. I thought that was a little weird and stalkerish. I think given the right audience, this book will do well. It is well written. I'm just ultimately not the right one for it.