Dont Let It Break Your Heart, Maggie Horne
Dont Let It Break Your Heart, Maggie Horne
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Don't Let It Break Your Heart

Author: Maggie Horne

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2024


Synopsis

You only get one soulmate, and I’m not throwing mine away.

Alana and Gray have been the perfect couple ever since they got together before high school—and neither of them think that should have to change just because Alana came out as a lesbian.

Sure, things are a little different now: Their romantic relationship is over, but their best-friends-since-forever relationship is stronger than ever. And yeah, Alana sees the way her other friends now exclude her in tiny, almost unnoticeable ways, but she still has Gray, and that’s all that’s ever mattered to her. Really, the only difference is that instead of kissing Gray herself, Alana sets him up with other girls to do that.

But when new girl Tal arrives, she stops Alana and Gray in their tracks.

Suddenly, Gray’s all in on his plan to get Tal to fall in love with him, and for the first time, Alana’s reluctant to help. As Alana and Tal grow closer, and Alana begins to think Tal might share her feelings, she has to decide whether to embrace her queerness and risk losing the life she thought she was building, or continue to hide parts of herself and maintain the status quo.

Don’t Let It Break Your Heart is a tender and romantic exploration of identity, love, and friendship that turns the friends-to-lovers romance trope on its head.

“A COMPLICATED AND MODERN LOOK AT FIRST QUEER LOVE, FINDING YOUR PEOPLE, AND THE EXHILARATING RISK OF LETTING GO IN ORDER TO FIND YOURSELF.”—Gabriel Shane Dunn, New York Times–bestselling co-author of I Hate Everyone But You

About Maggie Horne

Maggie Horne is a writer who grew up near Toronto, Canada. She now lives in the UK with her wife, where they keep a collection of dogs and children. She is the author of books for middle grade and young adult readers. Her first novel, Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One, was a 2023 LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts (NCTE) nominee.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on August 16, 2024

This was a really inspiring story about how friendships may evolve as we grow up and learn how to find our own paths in life. I was engrossed in the story from the beginning and found it impossible to put it down. The main theme of this narrative is a girl's attempt to integrate her new identity wit......more

Goodreads review by Star on March 01, 2024

Lesbian book with a Louis Tomlinson song title? sign me the heck up! 01 March 2024 I got to read it. Thank goodness for that. This cover? Also a slay. No one can convince me that this isn't fanart *cough* of cis girl Harry and Louis Tomlinson. I will die on this hill I read this in 2 days and I was obs......more

Goodreads review by milliereadsalot on April 18, 2025

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review! I really appreciated the messiness of this in a way - it felt very realistic, especially to teenagers figuring themselves out and learning how friendship evolves as you grow up - but I didn't......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on August 19, 2022

Giving this baby 5 stars because it's one of my favourite things I've ever written and I love it. This book, my YA dream, is about a friendship that's the most important thing in the world, and a first romantic love that feels so powerful it might blow up that friendship. It's about what it means to......more

Goodreads review by Anniek on November 11, 2024

I ended up with mixed feelings about this. I really appreciated how messy this was - all of the main character's relationships have their struggles and everyone made mistakes and people didn't handle everything perfectly. I liked how the character development wasn't a neat arc. I just wanted more of......more