Book Review: Hearts Made for Breaking by Jen Klein



**Disclaimer: I received a free electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**
Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary
Release Date: April 30, 2019 
Description:
"Lark is the queen of breakups. When she ends things with a boy, there are never any hard feelings. Sometimes he doesn't even realize that she broke up with him. And that's exactly how Lark likes it. What's the point in hurting people? Or getting hurt?

Her best friends, Cooper and Katie, think Lark's dating pattern is tragic. How can she know what love is if she refuses to take risks? They dare her to finally have a bad breakup, one that matters. To appease her friends, Lark selects "Undateable" Ardy Tate as her target. He's a mysterious challenge and completely different from any guy she's ever dated. Can she win him over? Will she break his heart? Or will the Queen of Breakups have her heart broken?"

To be completely honest, I'm not a fan of storylines about relationships that are started based on a one-sided game. Not only because it's predictable, but it's cruel to the other person who does not know about it. No matter how cute the couple is in the story, there will always be that ugly feeling hanging over your head because you know that the secret of the game will destroy everything. That's how I felt when reading this. No matter how cute Ardy and Lark were, from their awkward friendship to actually dating, I knew the secret was a ticking time bomb.

 While not being a big fan of how the story started out, I did think Ardy and Lark were cute together. Lark is a rather flawed individual who lies her way out of her many past relationships, but I don't think it's as bad as her friends are making it out to be...or is that only me? Yes, it wasn't a nice thing to do, but Lark's BFFs paint it out to be some major problem, which pushes her into this whole game. The whole game itself was stupid and I wish it wasn't kept a secret for as long as it was. 

 Despite how cute the couple was in the story, this was still a miss for me. Probably because it was filled with many useless characters or too many angsty teens. Honestly, I started to lose interest about 3/4 the way through. I have seen many positive reviews for this book, so it was probably just me who didn't enjoy it as much as I would have wanted to. Nevertheless, if you're wanting to read a cute YA teen romance, you might want to give this a shot. 

Overall rating:  2.5/5

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