Instructions for a Broken Heart
Top 20 Reasons He's a Slimy Jerk Bastard Jessa: To help you get over your train wreck EX, I've enclosed 20 envelopes. Each one has a reason why Sean is a jerk and not worth the dirt on your shoes. And each one has an instruction for you to do one un-Jessa-like thing a day. NO CHEATING! Ciao! -C...
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Top 20 Reasons He's a Slimy Jerk Bastard Jessa: To help you get over your train wreck EX, I've enclosed 20 envelopes. Each one has a reason why Sean is a jerk and not worth the dirt on your shoes. And each one has an instruction for you to do one un-Jessa-like thing a day. NO CHEATING! Ciao! -C When Jessa catches her boyfriend, Sean, making out with Natalie "the Boob Job" Stone three days before their drama club's departure to Italy, she completely freaks. Stuck with a front-row view of Sean and Natalie making out against the backdrop of a country that oozes romance, Jessa promises to follow all of the outrageous instructions in her best friend's care package and open her heart to new experiences. Enter cute Italian boy stage left. Jessa had prepared to play the role of humiliated ex-girlfriend, but with Carissa directing her life from afar, it's finally time to take a shot at being a star. "Instructions for a Broken Heart transported me-to Italy, back to high school, to the wrench and ache of a first breakup and the exhilaration of self-discovery...with multifaceted characters and realistic complexities, this unforgettable novel is a journey I'm so glad to have taken." -Eireann Corrigan, author of Accomplice
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402243028 (1402243022)
ASIN: 1402243022
Publish date: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Travel,
Cultural,
Italy,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
High School,
Young Adult Contemporary,
Fiction
From the summary of this book, I expected the story to be a fun contemporary romance where an American girl meets and falls in love with a cute Italian boy on her trip to Italy. However, to my disappointment, this was not at all what the book was about, as there was very little romance in it. The st...
I started this book and BAM! I was hooked and heart broken. Written exceptionally well, Ms. Culberston captures her readers with a great story line that we all experience.What I liked most about this book is the great plot line. Getting over a breakup/cheating significant others is hard. And it even...
Double-Yay for me!! I have finished reading Instructions for a Broken Heart not skimming or skipping one single page although I was less interested than I had expected during the first half of the book and quite bored during the second half.
I really really had high hopes for this book and sadly it felt a little disappointed. I wanted to like Jessa and I wanted to like the instructions that Carissa had given her, but like Dylan Thomas in the book pointed out, the instructions were more for Carissa then for Jessa. It was stuff she didn...
After reading Kim Culbertson's debut, Songs For A Teenage Nomad, and being a little disappointed I was skeptical that I would like Instructions For A Broken Heart. Turns out I had no reason to worry. Instructions For A Broken Heart is a great new YA novel that is just in time for summer!Jessa can'...
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