It's Not Me, It's You

by Stephanie Kate Strohm

High school senior Avery Dennis runs the prom committee, and she has always had a date for everything, but when a public breakup with her current boyfriend makes her start wondering about her own dating history, she sets out to investigate why her relationships never seem to work out--and ends up discovering some hard truths about herself and her dating choices.

• ISBN10: 0545952581
• ISBN13: 9780545952583
• Publish Date: 25 October 2016 (first published 1 October 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Scholastic US
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[whisperingchapters]

This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.


As the synopsis states, this story is about a girl who has never been single. NEVER! She's always dating someone, but prom is near and she just got dumped. A class assignment is handed out and Avery decides to do it on her past relationships and why they didn't work out.

Avery's story was slightly comedic and at times, fun. I enjoyed her story and all of her thoughts and footnotes added to the research. I also loved the format of the story! All of the book was written in a sort of interview format. I thought this was a great way to tell Avery's story and I never got lost with the characters and all the ex-boyfriends.

My major complaint is that for 288 pages, this book felt so unbelievably long! It took me 4 days when a book like this could have taken me a day or two. It got to a point that I would get bored and kept reading only to see what the outcome of the story was, which I did like, thankfully.

Overall, It's Not Me, It's You is a very cute novel with a great format, but it felt extremely long for a short book.

I received an eARC from the publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.

[Sam@WLABB]

This book was so much fun! I know, we have seen the whole ask-all-my-exes-why-we-broke-up thing, but this was fun and fresh none the less.

Avery is a popular girl and head of the illustrious prom committee. However, one week before the prom - disaster! Her boyfriend breaks up with her. This prompts Avery to examine her dating life. She decides to use this as the topic of her final history project. After enlisting her best friend, Coco, and her loyal lab partner of four years, Hutch, Avery sets out compile her romantic oral history.

The format was great. I really liked the way so many different characters were able to give their two cents, but Avery's voice remained so strong. **This was often accomplished via "editor's notes", which were hilarious. I adored all the different types of boyfriends we got to meet. There was so much variety, and it just added to the overall hilarity of the story. There were also these awesome friendships, which I wanted to be part of. Hutch and Avery were standouts, but there were a multitude of secondary characters who were able to steal the spotlight at times.

This book was so much: fun, hilarious, charming, adorable, and smile-inducing.