It’s Not You, It’s Me by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Age Group: Young Adult/Middle Grade
Pages: 192
Zoe loves Henry.
Henry dumps Zoe.
Zoe wants Henry back—at any cost.
Zoe’s two best friends come up with a plan to help Zoe get what she thinks she wants. The plan: make Henry jealous.
But the plan takes a surprising turn. . . .
Spanning thirty-one days in the cycle of a breakup, Kerry Cohen Hoffmann’s humorous and poignant novel depicts a girl whose single-minded focus on her ex-boyfriend has pulled her far from the person she most needs to win back—herself.
It’s Not You, It’s Me is a brutally honest story of the aftereffects of a breakup. It’s a fairly common story-line, and I didn’t feel that It’s Not You, It’s Me brought anything new to the table. Except a truly psychotic MC. I couldn’t sympathize with Zoe at all, her character is extremely whinny and possibly unstable. Her friends were one-dimensional... I’m not really sure why they were in the story except to give Zoe advice, which she didn’t take. I never really felt that Zoe gained any perspective once the story concluded. I know being in love can make you do crazy things, but some of this stuff was even too much for me, and I’m very open minded.