Name: Museum of Heartbreak
Rating: 3.8125 (16 reviews)
ISBN: 9783570172650

Meg Leder

Museum of Heartbreak

In this ode to all the things we gain and lose and gain again, seventeen-year-old Penelope Marx curates her own mini-museum to deal with all the heartbreaks of love, friendship, and growing up. Welcome to the Museum of Heartbreak. Well, actually, to Penelope Marx’s personal museum. The one she creates after coming face to face with the devastating, lonely-making butt-kicking phenomenon known as heartbreak. Heartbreak comes in all forms: There’s Keats, the charmingly handsome new guy who couldn’t be more perfect for her. There’s possibly the worst person in the world, Cherisse, whose mission in life is to make Penelope miserable. There’s Penelope’s increasingly distant best friend Audrey. And then there’s Penelope’s other best friend, the equal-parts-infuriating-and-yet-somehow-amazing Eph, who has been all kinds of confusing lately. But sometimes the biggest heartbreak of all is learning to let go of that wondrous time before you ever knew things could be broken…

The Museum of Heartbreak

Fátima

Fue súper bonito <3
Perdí la noción del tiempo leyéndolo y disfruté mucho la historia. (No es ningún secreto que el cliché de los mejores amigos que se enamoran es mi favorito EVER).

Eph es lo mejor de la historia, me encantaba su personaje, era adorable y bastante fácil de querer y su amistad con Pen me encantaba. A su vez, me encantaban las constantes referencias de cultura pop que había, y los intercambios e interacciones entre ellos. 

Soy muy fan de este libro.

Por cierto, no vamos a mencionar a la pésima amiga que completaba el trío porque me cae súper mal.

Jana

Ganz nett zu lesen, allerdings war mir von Anfang an klar, wer der Herzensbrecher ist und wer für das Happy End sorgen würde. Für zwischendurch aber durchaus sehr gut geeignet

Kath Lau

Actual Rating: 3.5

First of all, I would like to thank Ms. Meg for sending me a copy! ♥ I instantly fell in love with the cover. It's so adorable.

Penelope, Audrey and Ephraim are best friends forever. But things start to change now that they're in their junior high. Audrey starts to hang out with Cherrise (who is always mean to Pen) while Eph is dating almost every girl. Pen is not a fan of change but she doesn't have much choices but to accept it. On their first day at school, a handsome guy appears and Pen falls head over heels in love with him.

The characters are relatable and realistic but I had a hard time connecting with some of them. Plus, I didn't learn so much things about them.

Penelope is a loves to read and collect/keep little things which later on became the artifacts in her Museum of Heartbreak. I personally didn't like her that much. She is a hopeless romantic which is not bad but she often comes off like desperate (or trying hard) towards Keats (the perfect boy. Ugh!) which I found annoying. I'm not actually blaming her because it's her first time getting some attention from a guy. Keat is obviously a douche and it took awhile for her to see that. Both of her best friends, Ephraim and Audrey, warned her about him but of course, she didn't listen.

Ephraim, aka "tall, handsome hottie", is probably one of my favorite characters, aside from the members of Nevermore (school's literary magazine). He is so talented and I liked his sense of humor. He's a very loyal and supporting friend. I liked his friendship with Pen.

The writing style is fun and easy to read. I did like the concept of the story and the illustrations in the beginning of every chapter. I liked the dinosaurs (they are everywhere), New York (the greatest city in the world!), the Helvetica Cafe, the Dead Poet's Phone booth, and the Willo Project.

The romance was cute but it wasn't that sweep-me-off-my-feet kind of romance. The story is sweet but it ends abruptly and quite predictable. I appreciated that the author shows us that heartbreak isn't always associated with romance but also with friendship and family.

Sometimes you get hurt. And sometimes you're the one doing the hurt. p.265

Overall, The Museum of Heartbreak was an enjoyable read. I didn't love it but I can still recommend it if you're looking for a quick and fun read with great concept. And if you love dinosaurs. ♥

Kourtney

Remember that time when your dreams of the future collided with the present day, and you have to reconcile both of them? That moment is captured in The Museum of Heartbreak. 

Seventeen-year-old Penelope Marx is at the point in her life where friendships are beginning to change, new relationships are forming, and old friendships may be left behind. Penelope experiences heartbreak for the first time in multiple fashions, and in coming to terms with it develops the Museum of Heartbreak. 

The story is told with each chapter showing how a piece of the museum came to be a part of Penelope's heartbreak, one item at a time. It weaves together Penelope's tale and all the players involved.

I first heard of this book in a Buzzfeed article of YA books to read and thought that the idea of it sounded great. After all, who hasn't experienced heartbreak? When I began to read the book, I really liked that an item from the museum was displayed, and it's story shared. I haven't seen that in any other book I have read, and always love finding new ideas. This book really brought me back to that time in my life where reality met my dreams and fantasies. I'm so glad those days are in the past!

What I didn't like though, was that the story was too predictable. Every storyline was told before and feels almost cliche at this point (I won't specify so as to not spoil the story for others). At the end of the book, the story changes tense and goes from Penelope narrating, to Penelope speaking directly to someone. This was confusing, and I expected more to be done with this. It wasn't. So when I read the last line of the book, I found myself saying "that's it?" 

If I was a teenager, I could see myself being inspired to create my own museum of heartbreak, although I probably wouldn't share it with anyone!

I received this e-book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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