How to hack a heartbreak

Kristin Rockaway

Book - 2019

"By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed help-desk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. By night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app Fluttr. After one inappropriate pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harassers and abusers in online dating space."--Publisher description.

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Genres
Romance fiction
Novels
Published
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Kristin Rockaway (author)
Physical Description
346 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781525834257
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Review by Booklist Review

By day, Melanie Strickland works the help desk at Hatch, a New York City start-up incubator, where she fields calls from demeaning and disrespectful techies with various computer issues, all the while knowing she's better than that. By night, she goes on bad date after bad date, aided by the online dating app, Fluttr. After being stood up and one unsolicited dick-pic too many she decides to take matters into her own hands. She creates a website, JerkAlert.biz, where users can alert fellow singletons about guys who are no good. Mel is not prepared, however, for the site to go viral overnight. Rockaway's sophomore work (The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World, 2017) is as sexy as it is topical. Providing a peek into the world of twentysomethings dating in the digital age and (s)wiping out, the fast-paced tale will have readers laughing and celebrating as Mel shows what she's made of in the worlds of romance and tech. Perfect for lovers of Doree Shafrir's Startup (2017) and Hannah Orenstein's Playing with Matches (2018).--Erin Holt Copyright 2019 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Rockaway (The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World) delivers a sharp and funny tale of female empowerment with a side order of romance. Four years after college, programmer Melanie Strickland is still working the helpdesk at a New York City start-up incubator called Hatch. The only good things about her job fixing laptops for ungrateful male chauvinist "Hatchlings" are the paycheck, benefits, and a cute programmer named Alex Hernandez. After yet another crappy online dating meetup goes wrong, Mel creates JerkAlert, a site where women can warn others about online daters who are rude, thoughtless, lying, or sexist. While she begins a tentative romance with Alex, JerkAlert goes viral and Mel dreams of starting a company. But she'll need to challenge a world that still believes "girls can't code" and find her own way to success-in business and in love. Rockaway creates an entertaining, if somewhat black-and-white, world of high-tech winners and losers, from Mel's indomitable girlfriends to the rapacious businessmen in her way. A brisk plot and Mel's determination will see readers through to the triumphant finish. Agent: Jessica Watterson, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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