How to Hack a Heartbreak by Kristin Rockaway
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Released June 11, 2019
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Swipe right for love. Swipe left for disaster.
By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed helpdesk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers–“Hatchlings”–who can’t even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. And by night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she’s matched with on the ubiquitous dating app, Fluttr.
But after one dick pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her brilliant coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harrassers and abusers in online dating space. It’s called JerkAlert, and it goes viral overnight.
Mel is suddenly in way over her head. Worse still, her almost-boyfriend, the dreamy Alex Hernandez–the only non-douchey guy at Hatch–has no idea she’s the brains behind the app. Soon, Mel is faced with a terrible choice: one that could destroy her career, love life, and friendships, or change her life forever.
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How to Hack a Heartbreak by Kristin Rockaway has been on my radar from the moment I saw the cover and the blurb! As a single woman living in the days of online, app dating this book really resonated with me!
Sadly for most of the book though it wasn’t clicking for me. I had issues with Mel, our heroine up until the end of the story. She was working in a toxic work environment and I understandably she was frustrated with the situation, but in my opinion she spent too much time lamenting that fact instead of searching for another job.
I’m sure this makes me sound self righteous and indignant, but come on! If you’re unhappy with the way things are at your office and you are treated poorly and constantly disrespected why would you continue down that path?
Granted if it wasn’t for her overall mistrust and bitterness towards men she wouldn’t have built the application nor would she have discovered herself and learned that not all men are cheating liars.
Ultimately it was her growth as a character and woman that really sucked me into this story, oh yes and the drama. The last 30% of How to Hack a Heartbreak was great! Just when things seemed to be settling down something else was thrown at Melanie and I loved it!
I stinking love drama!! I mean, who doesn’t sit there and get sucked into the rabbit hole of drama online?
How to Hack a Heartbreak once again leaned toward women’s fiction over romance, which put the love story on the back burner. If you are expecting a romance this will be good for you to know because the romance is not a big part of the story, in fact you really don’t get to know Alex much at all throughout the story.
There are some really strong friendship bonds in this story and these friends made the book! I’m hopeful to spend more with the rest of these women!
How to Hack a Heartbreak is a women’s fiction novel with a dose of romance that will satisfy not only women’s fiction readers, but romance readers alike.
