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How to Hack a Heartbreak
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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. Kristin Rockaway is a native New Yorker and recovering corporate software engineer. After working in the IT industry for far too many years, she finally traded the city for the surf and chased her dreams out to Southern California, where she spends her days happily writing stories instead of code. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son, and planning her next big vacation.
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The_Heeler_Booklife
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was a super cute rom com/chick-lit book. Mel is sick of the dating world and online dating. Men are always sending disgusting photos and not really caring for dating or ghosting. So, she creates Jerk Alert for people to log their reviews on men to say if they are disgusting, a ghosted, liar, adulator, etc. What could honestly go wrong?

#litsy #littens #bookstagram #bibliophile #howtohackaheartbreak #pick #fourstars

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Purrfectpages
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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This is the perfect, get your mind off of quarantine kind of book! Its cute premise revolves around an underestimated female coder who is not taken seriously in the tech world. At the same time, she‘s also fed up with the opposite sex and online dating. So what does an accomplished woman who feels undervalued do? She creates an app that tells men how she really feels! This was a fun mix of girl power and good vibes.

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Purrfectpages
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Light and airy. That‘s the goal.

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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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#bookreport a day late. I knock two ARCs off the to read pile. Both were really good. 💃
I have two more on deck for the coming week. I also want to get some reading with Caesar.
All and all a good book week.
@Cinfhen

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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Things I really liked: women who supported each other, women who were not super perfect, competent women, women who lived with doubt, insecurity but kept going. Things that were hit over the head over and over but needed to be : the bro toxic way of life in tech and society, the way women are harassed every single day, that nothing is free, if the tech is free you are the product.
#netgalley #romantsy

writerlibrarian Things that were okay but too perfect : Alex and Ray the only two guys worth it for the heroines. I didn‘t need them to be almost perfect to be worth taking a chance but in the context of the narrative I guess they needed to be.

It‘s a happy for now ending and I liked it was about the women than the Mel/Alex relationship.

3,5 ⭐️
(edited) 4y
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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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🐧🏒 always exciting. 32 s in 1-0 🐧. Hoping to get passed 75% tonight into this one. Also, lucky third jersey. As I write this 🐧🚨again 2-0
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Repeat from last night. Tanger 🚨 and goalie is out. 3-0 🐧. Gally 🚨 on PP. 4-1 🐧. Murray is leaky 4-2. Another goal from Nashville. That leaky goal... it's hurting them now. 4-3. It's tied at 4 all. Murray is still shaky. With about a minute to go. Jakenbake 🚨. Milkshake 1/2 price tomorrow. 5-4 🐧 it's under review but the call on the ice is goal. 🚨confirmed. Rust 🚨 empty net. 6-4 (edited) 4y
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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Afternoon world junior hockey. 🇨🇦 vs 🇷🇺. In between taking a stab at the iced parking space, I've put salt and it's slowly deicing, i'm getting through this book which is still entertaining.
#readingandwatchinghockey

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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Hockey is back. 🍁 in Jersey. 🐧 in Music City. Me with my somehow interesting ARC.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian 3-1 🐧 3🚨 in 6 shots. Goaltender change for Nashville. It's 5-2 🐧 with an empty net for Nashville and Jarry took a shot at the net. Crazy goalie Tristan. 🐧 win. (edited) 4y
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writerlibrarian
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Team Canada is trailing Team USA 1-0 at World Junior. Traditional Boxing day thing : World junior hockey.
#readingandwatchinghockey

writerlibrarian Canada won a strange, high tempo game. 6-4 Alexis Lafreniere got 4 pts. He's the next draft number one pick. (edited) 4y
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ChasingOm
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Good morning from Jamaica!
My husband and I got here yesterday and I‘ve already finished a book. 😂 I started it on the plane b/c our first flight was tiny and my carryon (w/ my Kindle) was checked at the gate. This was the only book I had on my phone, so the choice was easy, lol. It was ok — I felt the protagonist was overly suspicious, simply to move the conflict along to the happy ending — but a solid start to a great week of reading and sun!

LiteraryinLawrence Enjoy your vacation!! 4y
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Michelle505
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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This was cute but not my favorite. It was interesting reading about the tech start up world and the ending was nice but was a little slow and unrealistic in some parts.

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chlolovesbooks
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💻

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drmcscrewhammer
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Really enjoyed this cute, breezy book for the end of summer. It kept me reading suspense-fully because there were so many questions I needed answered! There was some gender commentary I didn‘t appreciate but not enough to sour the reading experience.

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Preciouz29
How to Hack a Heartbreak | Kristin Rockaway
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Excellent light hearted romcom that‘s perfect summer reading!