Customer Reviews

Heartbreaker

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Heartbreaker is a tapestry of pointed and often wacky anecdotes peppered with a little sex and spiced liberally with the personal introspections of main character, Tina, who is a professional "Heartbreaker". An appreciable fantasy feast of revenge for women who have encountered the worst in the worst types of contemporary men and survived. A delightful read for any afternoon!

If there was ever a novel for feminine empowerment, this may very well be it. The female lead is unflinching in her quest to help the heartbroken and her cohorts (who happen to be strippers --how's that for feminity?) never waver from their slight distaste of men and all that is wrong with them. The humour is very understated and I found myself spitting up coffee several times after I'd read a particuliar line. Now what I really liked about this book, as it is a chick book, is the that the author kept me guessing whether or not the lead character was going to do her love interest in. Not literally, of course. It's a great concept and a great read.

I have just started to read romantic comedy for a lite change of pace. I like this one, the principle character is not so wimpy and soft joke but more real and solid, a stand alone person. It is base on revenge but very lite and not to bitchy. Easy to read, won't take much of your time or keep you up at night. Great beach book or excellent for busy moms.

Are all the other reviewers friends of the author or something? I'm not getting their reviews if we're talking about the same book (which going by plot summaries, seems to be true). I felt kinda cheated after reading this book. I bought it on the 5 star rating but upon reading, felt cheated. The actual plot of a professional woman heartbreaker is a REALLY good idea but the main character (Tina) falls flat and doesn't bring it home for the story. I did like the parts that stuck to strictly the "heartbreaker" recollections of this story but the parts that related to her non-working off-hours life were extremely boring. The surrounding characters seemed too stereotypical without being funny. Maybe you have to be from the south the get this? The dialogue was really tedious and it took effort to finish the book. You know how when you and your friends experience something and you all think it's hysterical and too funny for words? But how when you retell it, the new person to your group just doesn't get it because they weren't there? and you can't understand how they don't think it's the funniest thing ever?? Well picture yourself as the new person and that's what reading this book was like........