by Kim Culbertson
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'...
My thoughts:This was another lovely book by Culbertson, and with this one she has become one of my favourite authors of YA books. She has a way of putting that extra into a tale.Jessa Gardner is a young girl with a lot on her plate, all different clubs and projects. She knows what she wants, but she...
Understated read with a character I never felt close to. Jessa keeps a wall around herself that is very difficult for anyone to scale, including readers. Lots of promise here as she tries to sort out her feelings after breaking up with her boyfriend, but I thought something was missing. Not a bad...
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