Honestly this is just a hilarious collection of the worst ways and things to happen while you break up with someone. This was just funny in a Oh-my-God-what-the-hell way. It will make you cover your mouth in horror while trying not to laugh at the same time.

Really cute book that I enjoyed., it is a topic we all face at least once in our life. Very well done, and I read it in one sitting. I loved the catoons!

This book portrays a hard thing like a breakup in a light-hearted approach. Reading this makes me feel happy to be single. Would make a perfect gift to single people on valentines day, and also to people who have ever had a breakup.

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

Haha, absolutely brilliant book of breaking up stories. Short ones, longer ones, and all couples with illustrations. Recommended!

(Almost) everyone has been through it, breaking up. Some of the break ups go well, and some... well, I would say read this book. I had a great time reading this one. With some I was nodding along, I knew the feeling of the person. And some break ups... well, it was a bit hard to believe some really happened. Some were quite a bit messed up. Poor people who had to go through this.:(
But most of them were just hilarious to read, I even read a few out loud to my boyfriend who also was laughing at the silliness.

Yes, break ups are painful, but the author really did a great job to make them more fun, and hilarious, to alleviate the pain.

I loved that the break up stories varied in size. Some were short, just a few sentences, but some took a few pages! I am not sure if I would have enjoyed the book the same way had all the stories been long. And some stories just work better as short.

Then added with the break up stories we also have illustrations. Each of them was great and made me laugh even harder. The illustrations are a bit simple, but I didn't mind that at all. It fitted with the book perfectly.

Plus points go to the title!

So, all in all, I would recommend this one, and I hope that the author will be bringing out more of these books. I will definitely read them if she does!

A quick, cute and quirky little read based on real life break up experiences from a variety of people, illustrated with flair . The stories range from funny to sad and are sure to resonate with everyone who has ever been dumped, especially if it was handled badly. Fun to dip in and out of too, if you don't feel like reading it in one sitting.

Short but very funny book on breakups. Who can't relate at sometime or another. If you want some tips(Ha) or just want to relate to others in the same situation, this book is for you. Great little book!

This book was hilarious! I truly enjoyed it. Most of us at one time or another experience a break-up. This book has the stories of some of the worst or funniest ways to break up with someone. The pictures were cute, too. This was a fast read, and fun to read. Just read it!

Short, funny, sad, and entertaining. I can relate to this book and that's why I like it. If you’ve just been dumped, read this book. It will make you laugh a little bit.

Thank you to Netgalley for opportunity to read this book.

If you want a fun little dose of schadenfreude, this is the graphic novel for you. Less graphic novel and more "true confessions" about the worst breakups with playful artwork to emphasize each story. Another super-quick read, with plenty of "glad that wasn't me" giggles along the way.

I enjoyed this book. It's so relatable and led me to reminense about the past as we all have terrible/funny break up stories. This book starts off saying the stories are made possible because people are terrible, which is such an accurate statement. Really enjoyed this quick read, would recommend.

This was definitely fun! I really appreciated being able to feel so connected to other people through their embarrassment and heartache and amusement. I'd definitely recommend this to my friends!

Hilarious but I recommended changing the format of the first letter to not be after the pictures. I constantly missed it and wondered where each story began and ended.

This book is strangely hilarious. I love that these are all true stories, I love the artwork that goes with each story and I love that this book has made me realise that not everything is as bad as it seems at the time. I fell in love with this book right away and I'm actually going to go buy my own copy now because I love it so much.

I had an early morning bus journey and wanted something super light to read. The stories themselves range between hilarious to merely tragic and some of them made my stomach curl in embarrassment and shame. We all have a bad breakup story and the collaborative nature of the book is good- different perspectives and stories, from the simple two line deal to longer paragraphs. The images do add a little joy to the stories but don't really interpret much or add to the humour of the stories themselves.

This was worth a half hour of reading time and I did get some enjoyment from it, but I wouldn't recommend it too heavily- it's funny, but it's very short and reads more like a series of one liners than anything else. On the whole it reminded me of the 'embarrassing letters' section of magazines I read when I was a teenager.

This book is really entertaining to read! It's not a laugh out loud or hilarious, but it's really entertaining reading other's people experience! I also really like the illustrations, so simple yet perfectly captures the story related to it.

This is a really cute book with good stories and a funny picture to go with each one. I don't think someone who has just broken up with someone would want to read bad breakup stories, but I've never really broken up with anyone. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the time I spent reading this book, even if it is a short read due to the pictures accompanying each story. Would I buy it with actual money?

I kept thinking of scenarios where this would be an appropriate gift for anyone I knew, and even if they had just been broken up with they could just go on the whisper app for these kind of confessions. Or tumblr. Instagram, even.

The only thing making this book different from the free content on the internet are the pictures that go along with each story. So what it comes down to is this: Is the art in this book worth thirteen dollars?

My answer is: no, perhaps not. But if it becomes available on kindle to buy for a few dollars, it'd be worth a buy.

The old saying goes that breaking up is hard to do and this book shows some of the most ridiculous and funny ways that people have broken up with the significant other. The author and illustrator of the book asked the public to give her their stories of how they were broke up with somebody or how their significant other broke up with them. I enjoyed the premise of this book and the illustrations were quite funny. I look forward to looking at other works from this author. I would recommend this to anyone who has ever had a bad breakup or knew someone who has.

This book is a collection of bad breakup stories. They were very entertaining. One boy broke up with his girlfriend in middle-school so he could spend more time with his dog. One girl received a break-up letter on a floppy disc (this was in 2006, past the floppy-disc era). I think my favourite one was that a boy broke up with his girlfriend because Jesus told him to.

I liked the pictures in the book. They were simple sketches, but they represented the ridiculous stories perfectly!

This book is a cute, short read. It would be great for someone going through a bad break up, because it would show them that (hopefully) other people have gone through worse break ups!

This review will be posted on April 27, 2017.

This short book is a compilation of breakup vignettes alongside the cartoon image that Campbell imagined should accompany it. Some of the breakups are nothing short of ridiculous... others shared the whiplash moments of, "What just happened? Was that real life?"

It was a quick read--it just left me feeling "ehh. Breaking up is hard."

I thought the premise of the book would be fun, especially since the introduction gave the impression, to me, that the stories would be more from the perspective of the one who was not "terrible" (Campbell's word) rather than from the perspective of the, well, terrible is too kind. I don't want to hear the story from the side of the a-hole then have a cutesy cartoon (to make them feel better? I dunno.). Not to mention some of the stories appeared to be fabricated (I don't mean by Campbell, I mean by the people giving her the stories) and far too convoluted to be real. Maybe I'm wrong but either way those stories (the ones I think are false and the ones from a-holes) made the book as a whole a disappointment for me.

To be fair, some of the stories and the accompanying cartoon were very funny. The harsh break-ups were easier to take when they were done by middle school and high school kids as compared to "adults."

While I would still recommend the book but with the warning that there are some stories that are not funny, cute or even groan-inducing and the cartoons can't redeem those. But the cartoons are cute and for the most part adds to or even compensates for the stories they represent.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.

A fun, quick read. Some of the stories were pretty funny, others fairly run-of-the-mill. The cartoons were cute but not especially funny or necessary to drive home the points of the stories.

This book includes little vignettes of pretty awful break-ups written by other people, with accompanying comics/drawings by the book's author. I can see this being a funny read long after the end of a relationship (if you're morbidly curious like I am), and some of the comics made me laugh out loud. But probably don't read this while the wounds are still fresh. Some of these break-up stories are truly awful, and some of them are even told by the truly awful people who perpetuated them, and they WILL make you angry.

<i>"Everyone says you're a great guy."</i>
This short book combines comedic tragic stories of breakups alongside cute cartoons.
Great fun.
<i> "After all this time with you, I'm still waiting to meet that guy they're talking about."</i>

This is another case of the title being what the book is about. Surprise. This is a little book of bad break up stories. Ones where there were misunderstandings. Ones where there was hurt. Ones that were cute, and ones that are sad.

Most of the stories have a little cartoon associated with each story.

This is not a sit down and read all the way through. This is more of a bathroom book, for quickly getting in and out, and coming back to later. Nothing wrong with that.


Thanks o Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley, Animal Media Group LLC, and Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell for the chance to read and review this ARC;

This book was a rip-roaring and heart-paining rollercoaster from the word go. You'll find yourself laughing and wincing as you turn every page, delighted in the art and finding yourself kith and kin to the people in the stories. I found myself thinking of my own breakups and seeing my own choices in those on the pages, both confessions of how people had broken up with others and how they had been dumped by others.

I definitely will purchase a copy of this when it comes out and I hope there are more stories that still get submitted from the contact info at the end of the book, so that there will be even more pieces to read once it is published.

Love does strange things to us and most have experienced the hardship of a break up at any age. The book is a collection of real life stories depicting the humorous side of a relationship split. .I particularly liked the one where the guy asked for his gift back, which turned out to be black lingerie! It is a short and easy read, maybe helpful if you have been in the situation and the cartoons which accompany the stories are cute and funny.

Short, funny book on how realign ships were ended. Some are hilariously funny. My favorite was the lady who had her things delivered to her office and her boss stepping over her undies. Cute hand drawn pics, but some of them were kind of childish looking. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

This was not what I expected. I think I was expecting more commentaries to the stories. Like "That sure was bad, this is how you should have done it..." or "You think that was bad, imagine if it had happened like this...".

But still, it was a funny book. It make strange breakups look a lot more normal, and the normal not so bad after all. It is a quick book I think I would have enjoyed if I happened to be in a bad breakup which would be hard to get over.

The cartoons where nice and quirky (in a good way), but I would like to see them take more space in the book. Some of the stories could have had more than just one picture.

Full of heart, laughter and reality. A refreshing, thoroughly hilarious book that follows the stories of people who went through awful break-ups while the amazing cartoonist, Hilary, captures the essence of that sorrowful experience effortlessly in a well-crafted and executed cartoon.

I loved the structure of the book; the typography and layout as well as how it went about with the stories followed by the cartoons made it easier to follow and read. The cartoons, the least to say, were aesthetically pleasing, beautiful and utterly appropriate - amazingly in sync with every reminisced break-up story. I did not found any that didn't narrate the story itself.

The stories were real. And that's all there is to explain - sad, terrible and hilarious, making you bury all hopes of ever being in a decent relationship, but real. I wanted some to be longer, more detailed so that I could connect better but at the end of the day, I respected other people's experiences - if they wanted to write three lines about their break-up then that's what we should get to read.

Overall, a super short, humorous, very realistic and cute (in a weird way) book, filled with positivity and an important message: Get rid of terrible people in your life, the first chance you get!

A collection of true anecdotes about people breaking up. From the weird to the "well I guess it's been time" this illustrated book will amuse you for a couple of hours.

I found this very funny, and the illustrations were a nice touch. Ideal fun book to give someone for a break up, it cheered me up and made me glad I wasn't on the dating scene anymore!

I was drawn to this book after having read Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up a little while back, and thought ‘hey, why not?’ This collection of anonymous stories made me giggle and guffaw more than a few times, as it took on the form of those ridiculous whisper confessions, and the illustrations that accompanied each story were just as cute.

My main complaint with this title is that while it is listed under comics and graphic novels, or as sequential art, the illustrations are neither sequential nor do they form a graphic novel. When I first selected the title I was expecting the stories to be completely translated into comic form (which would have been hilarious) rather than being accompanied by a single vignette. Don’t get me wrong, the stories were funny and the artwork spot on – but I would have preferred something that strayed a bit further away from single pane/ editorial comics. Was if fun? Sure! But there was way more that could have been done with these stories for them to be marketed as genuine comics and the collection as a graphic novel.

Would I recommend this book? Of course! It’s funny, relatable, and the perfect little book to leave places where it can be picked up and put down in a short amount of time. Campbell’s comic interpretation really adds to the experience, and reminded me more than a little of Bizzaro and Off the Mark. And, to be quite honest, it could easily be compared to the Bro Code bathroom readers in terms of humour and application.

If you are looking for something refreshing, and need a break from whatever you might be doing I highly recommend you to pick up this book. It took me 1 hour  and a half  to finish it, and it lightened up my whole day and made me laugh out-loud.

The stories that Hilary included and the art she made highlighted the comical side of the break up and I love them for how awesome they are. 

Best break up lines so far

"I swear I'm really busy. I can show you my calendar if you want"

"...Jesus came to him in a vision and told him I was a whore."

3 stars. I loved the premise of the book and its design, but I felt it could have been better. The cartoons were adorable but the stories were just okay. Not as funny as I'd hoped but did get a few giggles out of me.

Sooo funny. There are so many relatable stories!! Even though I am single and anyone have never broken up with me like that, I found it really interesting.
I absolutely loved this book, it is amazing and unique. I found this book very special, and I think that I will definitely re-read this one when someone will break up with me just to laugh after crying. And the illustrations were amazing, too! So accurate.
I recommend this book to everyoneee!!

I giggled my way through this light hearted read. A great quick pick up & put down book of the confessions of breaking up and being dumped.

There is solidarity to be found in reading the stories of other people's break-ups. It's the feeling that you are not wrong in thinking that there are many terrible people in the world. You're absolutely right in your assumptions as Campbell explains in the preface. This is just a story highlighting the actions of those terrible people.

A funny compilation of ridiculous and disturbing breakups! I enjoyed it.

This book is a collection of breakup stories that vary from sad to truly outrageous, coupled with some casual illustrations to really hammer the issue home.

"He threw a Gameboy at my head" ~ my favourite line

I can't really think of a single situation in which reading this book would be comforting, not even in a 'at least you weren't broken up with like this' capacity but it was a really interesting read all the same - we all love the sordid details so we can wince at some of the shittiest breakups. The one thing we can take from this book, however, is DON'T BREAK UP WITH PEOPLE LIKE THIS OR YOU WILL END UP IN A BOOK.

Laugh out loud stories of heartbreak (or relief!). Really good fun - easy to read and very entertaining.

From the description: "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."

Cambell truly did collect a myriad of stories that offer a great variety of horrible breakups...many of which make you go "Wow, at least I haven't been dumped that way." The cutesy illustrations to go with them are perfectly fitting as well. BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO is a kitschy little book that serves its purpose perfectly. It's a brief distraction and a reminder that it so could have been worse.

It was a nice quick and fun read. I really enjoyed this short story collection and it was interesting to see how weird people get when they break up and all the different ways they did it in.

This book is a great read on different ways people have been dumped which I thought was hilarious and sometimes a bit sad for the dumpee . The drawings on each page add an extra sad depth to the article and really finishes the book off.

This book masterfully reframes break ups in a way that turns heartbreak into laughter. It's totally relatable and fun to read!

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do... But You Could've Done Better is a graphic novel full of break up stories with little cute cartoons. These stories are from high school kids to adults.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do... But You Could've Done Better is such a funny, hilarious and amazing book. I really enjoyed reading all those break up stories and if there's going to be a part 2, I'll definitely read it! Some stories were so weird, like who would break up by saying that Jesus showed him that his girlfriend is a whore. Like, what?? And others were really sad.

Hilary Campbell is by the way amazing! She had an amazing dedication:

“To that one dude, for being such an inspirational dick.”

You go girl! I cannot wait to read more written by Hilary Campbell and highly recommend Breaking Up Is Hard To Do... But You Could've Done Better if you're looking for an easy and funny read!

I never thought I'd enjoy the stupidty of other people's reason when it comes to breaking up. This is a fun light read book for those who needs a quick read or just read an emotionally draining novel. It's light, it's funny, and it's amusing. Plus there is a cool illustration that points out the highlight of each short stories.

I am going to be honest, I requested this book only because of the title without knowing anything about it.
Best decision ever.

This book is a recollection of ugly break-up stories and definitely worth reading. I recommended it to some friends and one of them actually read it and loved it.

My conclusion: some crappy people can make a great book.
Kuddos to Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell for this piece!

Published 10th Jan. 2017 by Animal Media Group LLC with illustrations by Hilary Campbell, this collection of simply illustrated awful break-up stories will make you wince and hopefully smile some. The author/illustrator's stated purpose (after declaring that people are straight up generally terrible) was that by sharing stories we share experiences and lessen the sadness and hopefully share some humor. The stories run the complete gamut from first grade playground dumpage to full on live-in-partner horribleness. There were many of these that made me groan out loud.

It's a simple and short book, full of shared misery. I can definitely see this as being a good 'Ben&Jerry's + friends TV binge watching + book' after a good friend gets dumped (and you knew the boyfriend was a complete idiot all along).

Three stars for art and concept. Definitely worth a look.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.