Candy Hearts is a real and honest book about love in this modern world. It is so relatable and hilarious, the kind of book you would laugh out loud and be like "Hey, this is so me!" Its the kind of book you can read in one sitting and actually enjoy it. Its so unique how the author took the concept of the candy from Valentine's Day to actually use as characters. I love all the details as well as the illustrations in this short book and had a fun time getting curled up with Tommy Siegel's book about love, relationships and the whole package.

This book is full of humor in a cute and colorful art style. I liked the contents of this book that mostly hits close to home, but will still make you laugh. I would like to read more from the author and candy hearts someday.

Tommy Siegel's Candy Hearts started out as a single idea for a comic during a project. Siegel was drawing a comic a day for 500 days, and dashed one off. In the introduction to this book of comics, Siegel writes "I started to realize that candy hearts made for a pretty convenient setup to illustrate inner monologues . . . on the outside. A way to cut through to the truth and bluntly show what people are feeling but not expressing to their loved ones." The idea is a fun, novel one, and really captured a lot of attention when Siegel posted it, on Valentine's day in 2018. Now, a whole book of candy heart comics await anyone who wants to read something earnest and short.

While obviously anthropomorphic candy hearts have different physiology to human beings, they really come across in Siegel's comics as bizarrely human. Their faces are expressionless, but their body language expresses almost as much as the lettering on the hearts. The collection is humorous, blunt, and raw, full of jokes that hit hard and sometimes come a little too close to the truth. While it is a fast read, it is a joy to revisit, and well worth a place on your shelf. Some of my favorite bits include the tiny baby hearts, and the dogs, which are both cute while the latter are adorably derpy. There is just something so sweet about a little candy heart playing with a truck, and a dog with one of its eyes hovering out of focus. Word to the wise, I did find myself reading the funnier ones aloud to my significant other, so if you do buy this book for a loved one, prepare to listen to it as they chortle over the more amusing tableaux.

Such a hilarious, relatable comic!

In a few words, this book is a compilation of several one-panel-comics that illustrate what sometimes we are truly thinking –sometimes as a part of a new relationships and sometimes as someone who’s just tired of the same old partner. And it doesn’t matter if you’re single, I’m sure you’ll laugh about this too. We’ve all been there, I promise you.

I would totally recommend it because it’s a light-hearted reading but also because you can go through this in less than an hour. On the other hand, this the first time I read anything from the author but let me tell you, I’m excited to see what comes next.

The art style is simple but is meme material so it’s perfect to share it with some friends who are struggling with anxiety and depression due to the pandemic.

Entertaining. A short, but comical look at life through humorous candy hearts. Some of the comics were quite funny while others were just meh, but in fairness, this will completely depend on what you find humorous. There is likely going to be something in here for everyone. An easy way to pass some time in a comical fashion.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own, freely given.

I thought that this was a really fun read

The illustrations were great and I loved the witty comments that they author has added.

It was a light-hearted and fun way to spend the evening flicking through the book and having a giggle – just what I needed!

Review to come January 2021 on Blog/Goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I don't know who Tommy Siegel is but he has two new fans! This one looked very cute and funny and I can say that it was truly funny as well. And very true. :P

I decided to grab my hubby along as I read this one. I know he likes these kinds of comics as well! We both loved the introduction, but then the real fun started. We all know candy hearts and the texts they have. Ranging from silly to weird to romantic. Well, these are not those standard texts. These are thoughts. Many of these had us laughing but also definitely agreeing that things indeed went that way. I also loved that there were some COVID/2020 comics.

But there were also a couple of comics that had, at least me, scratching my head. That Phish comic? I had to look up what that was all about.

I think my favourites would be those dating app/Tinder comics. While I never have used those apps, I have heard the stories, I have seen pictures on Twitter. So I was giggling at seeing all those candy hearts doing the same as many people do on those apps.

All in all, though, this was a fabulous and fun read and something we could all use in this time. Some laughs, something funny. I would recommend this one.

I got this on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
I had previously read a similar comic collection from Siegel, and I really enjoyed this as well! Some of the comics in the collection really made me crack up, while others were not so good. But I guess this is also what happens when you create a comic strip every day! Would recommend it for anyone wanting some quick, short and pretty fun comic strips in a big collection!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read and review.

Super short and mega fun! This book was hilarious and so so relatable. You think it, Tommy writes it - on a conversation heart. The comics are to the point and so funny - I think I am at the point where I can laugh at the Covid ones too.

Candy Hearts is a collection of short comics, usually just one panel, of candy heart in very human situations. I've seen a few of them online and was curious to read a full book of them.
The comics are quite fun and mostly relatable. Unlike the author's debut "I hope this helps", this title focuses on a much more simplistic setting of the jokes and good to-the-point punchlines. I enjoyed that a lot.
The art style suited the jokes very well, and also - who doesn't love "candy-hearts with random writing on them" jokes?
I definitely enjoyed this one and recommend it.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

Candy hearts is so much fun to read!!!! I found it because of that parenting comic that became something of a meme.

ALSO. CANDY HEARTS IS PERFECT MEME MATERIAL!!

Anyway, yes. Loved it. Check it out! Idk when it comes out but check it out! Thanks, Netgalley ✨

I recently had an ARC for I Hope This Helps by Tommy Siegel and while that was not the biggest hit with me, in my review I said that my favourite parts from the book were those which included the candy hearts. So, of course, I could not pass on this one.

And I was not disappointed. It was a very quick read. Very clear, concise and straight to the point/punch line.

It took the best from I Hope This Helps and gave it it's own space. It feels more neet, that there is something connecting all the comics.

So, if you are trying to decide which Tommy Siegel book to get, I would recommend Candy Hearts. But! I have to say that it only shows a part of his cartoon style. (Though, in my opinion, the best). Which means that if you like this still does not mean you will like all of his other work or the other way around. This is more of a sample.

It’s cute, it’s fast. A 114 pages of single panel comics isn’t going to take anyone very long to read. I d seen 1 or 2 of these online so when I saw the galley I asked for a chance to read it. I’m not sorry I did. It put a smile on my face for 10 minutes before bed one night. If you want a quick chuckle this is a fine choice. On reflection seeing other reviews I might have gotten more of a laugh out of it if I’d done any online dating. But happily I met and married my spouse young and dodged that ****show. Good luck to those of you stuck with that.

Cute collection of comics about the true feelings and intentions of people in relationships and dating situations.

Candy Hearts by Tommy Siegel is a humorous, tongue in cheek look at modern relationships through the anonymity of faceless cartoon candy hearts. This is a quirky and unique take on the universality of our thoughts during social discourse, and there is something relatable here for everyone. The book is a lighthearted look at the struggles we all face while trying to make that deep human connection that is often so elusive. Recommended.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the chance to read this ARC.

*chuckles guaranteed*
Very funny! The idea to use the candy hearts was unique and very cute! argus would make a lovely gift!
I'd like to thank netgalley and the publisher for giving me a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

Yeah, I really liked this book. I read I hope this helps by Tommy Siegel and I liked it but not that much so I visited his Instagram profile to see what he was doing now. And I saw the candy hearts stories. I think that most of them are really funny and true. Like they are funny because it states the reality. I liked how the candy hearts always had different coloured because it makes it a bit gender-neutral in a way, even though sometimes my brain associated a candy heart with a gender. If you start reading this book, you will read it really fast, even in one sitting because first of all it’s not that long and because each panel contains its own story so it doesn’t feel long at all. I recommend this book to adults mostly.
4/5

Publisher's blurb: Tommy Siegel's single-panel "candy hearts" cartoons are sharp-edged yet lighthearted observations of human romantic relationships. Each one brilliantly depicts the many ways in which lovers deceive each other and hide their true feelings from the world.

Doesn't even tough what delights you will find in Candy Hearts"

OMG, Candy Hearts is a friking delight! A graphic novel that uses those terrible tasting candy conversation hearts, to tell what we would never have the nerve to say out loud.

My favorite one; One heart says "I don't believe in marriage." The other heart's response; "Yet you believe in Bitcoin."
Gave me just the chuckle I needed today, and like they say, "They're funny 'cus they're true."
Highly recommended. Would be great Valentine's gift as long as your paramour has a sense of humor.


I received this book free in exchange for my honest unbiased opinion. Thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing and @Netgalley

Hilarious set of cartoons depicting what we're all really thinking on dates and in relationships. Several are laugh out loud funny and I can't wait to share these with friends and family when published. There are a few that are bittersweet and some that are edgy but all relatable.

Thanks to Netgalley for a copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

So often books like this come along, merely collating some Internet comic yucks – and adding many not good enough for the Internet the book-buying public are supposed to feel grateful for – and leaving us getting very little out of them. Books like the first Tommy Siegel compilation I tried, which was hopeless. This is much superior to the norm, then – and to that prior volume. We generally have two, at most three, candy heart-type figures, with their real inner thoughts writ large for only us to see on their faces. Because they're candy hearts they're unnatural colours, and only the occasional girly crossed legs or man-spreading will give the game away as to their gender. But age, race, experience – all are hidden, and we're just allowed to see these sweets – with their surprisingly expressive body language – declare what they think internally, and the book gets surprisingly wide success with letting us see the irony behind those thoughts. This is a world of incompatibility, where nobody can seem to be on the same wavelength enough, and where every SMS comes with an ulterior motive at odds with the recipient's thinking. It's also, I'm sure, a lot lighter than how I've described it. But the point remains this is no cheap, easy-to-draw, conceit – there is thought and literariness here. And the most sudden, unspoken response to someone on a subway platform thinking they've pulled you could expect. Surprisingly, four stars (if not a fragment more).