A review by thebooklovingpanda
Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider

3.0

I was quite pleasantly surprised by this book. Initially I thought it was going to be another cliché YA novel but it wasn't. At least not as much as I was expecting. Alright, the main character does get with the mysterious new girl, there are John Green type quotes and why is everyone so boho? But the ending resolved in a very unexpected (at least for me) way.

Schneider does a good job of portraying Ezra's confusion about separating who he's supposed to be from what everybody expects him to become - which is probably why I didn't like him at first. He was just so passive and bland before his world got shaken up.

I didn't like Cassidy either initially because she seemed like Little Miss Boho Perfect but she became much more real and tangible as a player in Ezra's story (though I still don't like her much).

I really liked the ending. I always love when characters take their lives in their own hands - Ezra can be a strong, sassy, independent man! He don't need no lady to shine! Props for the amount of puns in this book as well.

The other characters could have been developed a bit more, though. The relationship I was most invested in was between Ezra and his poodle Cooper tbh.