Not a fan of Grace. She’s very obsessive and a stalker which does not make me want to root for her. It’s hard to root for someone who clearly doesn’t respect boundaries.

This was a 2.75 for me, but got bumped to a 3 because there was no epilogue.
What I liked:
The quick back and forths between Grace and Daniel gave me a couple giggles, and the friend banter between three good friends was pretty good.
Diving into what it feels like to be mixed was interesting and eye opening.
Unfortunately, that's all I liked.

What I disliked:
Nearly everything else. I'm not positive there was a single character that I truly liked. I realize there's a think line between relatable and terrible, but unfortunately that line was crossed. Honestly, everyone in this book was pretty awful.
Tiff kept talking about how horribly Grace's ex treated her, then acted equally as toxic.
Grace scamming her rich friends into buying her a very expensive trip under the guise of "girls trip" to win her ex back was gross.
And Camille seemed unnecessarily racist at times?
Daniel came on way too strong and was kind of a dick.
Also, I feel like romance was missing? Felt more liking hooking up instead of any real connection except for literally one conversation between the two.
With that said, it kept me entertained enough to not DNF.
Thank you to NetGalley and Mtv Entertainment Books and Atria for the eArc.

This was a letdown after such a promising synopsis

Arc received from the publisher; all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I love a rom com more than anyone but this just wasn't it. Daniel was the only character I liked. Camille wasn't awful but Grace and Tiff were the worst? There was no character growth and barely any romance in this? I'm not sure who this book was written for but it definitely wasn't for me.

This had a lot of potential to be a fun vacation romp, but ultimately I felt it fell a little short for me. While I enjoyed the humor and general plot, the characters, especially the FMC were just so infuriating, and I didn't feel like their plot arcs were sufficiently satisfying in a way that made up for it. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a light read.

This one was a let down for me. It started out so comically, but the wild antics got a little old. I thought the obsession Grace had with Josh was unrealistic after 6 months, and he was such a flat character. We were told who he was rather than shown through the plot. There was so much inner monologue from Grace, and it got very repetitive and boring. I also hated how hateful and angry her friends were about their relationship. It was such a girls-tearing-down-girls moment, and I felt like it was a big set back for women. I would have liked to see more of Daniel, who was really the only interesting character in this book. We didn't get much of him, and yet they fall in love. It was a little weak. My last issue was the narration style. There were a lot of "likes" or random asides that took away from the story in my opinion. I will say the overall premise was good and the narration was funny. I just think this one needed some fine-tuning.

Thank you to Netgalley and MTV Books for the eARC! I try not to hav4e too high of expectations, even based on the premise of a book. However, this just simply did not deliver. Extremely unlikable characters, sterotypes and caricatures - no development whatsoever. This is a messy read with messy characters whose actions don't line up. The cover and premise were stellar but I simply didn't click with this one.

I did not enjoy Grace the main character at all. I was turned off by her attitude from the very beginning and couldn't get over it.

1 Star

This book has a beautiful cover and a decent synopsis but unfortunately that’s where it ended for me. I found myself unable to even make it through the entire thing which is an absolute rare occurrence for me.

I don’t often feel “too old” for a book. I’m 32 and I enjoy reading all types of books, including YA (not sure I would even classify this as YA?)— but I just felt way too old and frankly evolved for The Breakup Vacation.

The main character and her friends are so unlikeable and read like one-dimensional mean girls of the 90’s and early 2000’s teen movies. They’re supposedly bffs but are mean and bullying to each other constantly! They need an intervention a la Mean Girls from Tina Fey/Ms. Norbury.

If I could summarize this book in one word it would be stereotypical and it felt like this in every aspect to me— racially, when it came to gender, the misogyny, etc. For instance, every Asian & French stereotype is thrown out there for these main characters. The French girl (Camille) in particular feels like a ripped off Emily in Paris character with no depth or personality other than being from France.

I think if this book had started out this way but ended with growth & character development then it could have been okay. However, there were no lessons in this & no one learned from their mistakes. Even the romance aspect wasn’t buyable to me.

I think you might find this fun if you love a raunchy 90’s/00’s movie and can look past all the stereotypes & other issues. Personally, this just was so alarmingly not for me.

Thank you to Net Galley and MTV books for the ARC of The Breakup Vacation in exchange for an honest review.

I've been trying to tell myself that it's ok to DNF books if I'm not enjoying them, and boy do I wish I had let myself DNF this one. Instead, I tried to chug along, hoping that maybe the next page will be better. Unfortunately, for me, this book just never got better.

It started out pretty bad in the first place, with Grace the main character showing up to her ex-boyfriend's apartment who is so mean to her and then lying to everyone she knows to guilt trip her friends to stalk her ex-boyfriend to a completely different country. It would be one thing if the book had shown Josh being nice to her even once so I could at least try to understand why she would go through these lengths just to try to get him back, but Josh legitimately had no redeeming qualities, which made it really hard for me to sympathize with Grace.

I also would have given Grace more of a break if she learned anything or faced any consequences for how horrible of a friend she is the entire book, but the entire time is just her playing the victim. At one point she finally realizes that maybe she is in the wrong but the narrative immediately goes to how her friends are also bad people so its ok that she's mean to them and they're all growing together. I just could not even a little bit sympathize with Grace.

I also didn't find the love story between her and Daniel at all interesting or even believable. They literally hook up in public places and have maybe one and a half 'real' conversations and all of a sudden Grace is like "No, you don't understand, it's more than a hook up!" And she's right, I do not understand! I feel like I was missing a lot of important context or even just any depth in the slightest.

I love a good romance. I love a romance where we have to watch the characters grow to love each other. I love characters who need a little bit of love.

BUT. In a novel that is 90% character driven, I need to actually WANT to like some of them. The characters in this are all really shallow, and don't ever give me much of (if any) reason to want any of them to be together. Overall I ended up really disappointed by this one.

The Breakup Vacation is set to be published on March 5, 2024. Thank you to Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, MTV Books, NetGalley and the author for the digital advanced copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I really wanted to like this one, but it just wasn’t for me. It was very hard to believe these characters were in college and not high schoolers. Grace was incredibly immature and I just could t get past it. Also within the first five pages, her boobs are mentioned SEVERAL times and it was extremely awkward.

I love the cover so much. That’s it. That’s the only positive thing I have to say about this book.

I was truly bombarded by the amount of modern day pop culture references. Most of the characters lacked depth. The issues that the author tried to raise were too on the nose and callously done. Grace needed to grow a spine.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for providing me an arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I wanted to love this one. I was looking forward to a sweet rom com, but this one lacked any depth in the characters. It feels like I’m reading a first draft. It has potential, but needs a little more work to bring more growth into the characters.

I did not finish this book. It did not hold my attention like I was hoping! I’m sure some will love it though! Nothing personal about the author or story, just wasn’t for me!

I'm not really sure how I feel about this one....I didn't care for it, I thought about not finishing it, but it was like a car crash that you can't help but watch (or read).

The situations were so juvenile, yet has spicys scenes, none of the characters were likeable...and honestly they all seemed to not like each others. I have no idea why Grace, Tiff and Camille are even friends. They are all so different and fight A LOT. They only got along when drinks were involved.

Grace was pathetic as a FMC. She's whiney, self centered and horrible to her friends. She was all over her ex, showing up at his house to climb into his windows at night to hook up and then stalking him by following him all the way to Cancun by lying to her friends and convincing them to have a "girls trip" and having her friend pay for it all. Not to mention there is ZERO chemistry between Grace and her ex Josh, but also ZERO chemistry between Grace and her vacation fling Daniel.

It's so hard to like a book when you don't like any of the characters.

Thanks to NetGalley and MTV Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) for the advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I'm grateful to have received this gifted copy, but unfortunately this book was not for me at all. It took me forever to try and finish it, and just finally had to throw in the towel. These characters, with the exception of Daniel, were not characters I could get myself to care about at all. Grace is, to be blunt, pathetic the way she chases after Josh. Josh is horrific. Tiffy just wants everyone drunk and to me is not a good friend.

I'm not sure who the audience is. It reads very immature, but there is spice. I was not feeling the romance at all. I'm so sorry, but again, this was just not the book for me. Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for sending me this gifted copy.

I love the author’s voice and writing style in this book. Unfortunately, the main character and storyline were so frivolous and inconsequential that I couldn’t get into the story. DNF.

I did not enjoy The Breakup Vacation. I found none of the characters to be likeable and the plot of the MC following her ex on vacation to try to get him back and then weighing her options between new boy and the ex was disturbing. I think the author intended this trainwreck of a situation the MC put herself in to be funny but it just came across as pathetic.
I think if you enjoy characters who continually make poor decisions to finally learn some sort of lesson at the end, this could be the book for you.
Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with this Advanced Reader Copy.

This was a very cute, YA novel. The story is about romance but also emphasizes in friendships, the wild time they have with each other and all the mistakes you make!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy!!!