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“Candy Hearts” by Tommy Siegel is an ideal airport lounge read for anxious readers who need a quick and undemanding distraction. It’s a collection of simple heart-shaped doodles about dates, love, life, and the baggage we all carry from our past. Sometimes funny, sometimes not as much.
If it weren’t free with my Kindle Unlimited subscription, I probably would have never picked up “Candy Hearts.” Now that I’ve read it, I think it’s tailored for those who are already familiar with Tommy’s cartoons from the internet and for those specifically looking for an illustrated humorous book about the pros and (mostly) cons of online dating, dating apps, and romantic relationships.
In this book, heart-shaped candies symbolize humans, and Tommy Siegel keeps changing their colors, so it’s not just a blue candy interacting with a pink candy, if you know what I mean. Take the cover illustration of “Candy Hearts,” for example. It features a blue candy with the text “we will not mess you up” sitting with a yellow candy continuing the sentence with “like our parents messed us up” on a couch, while a little green candy sits on the floor with “a whole new kind of f*cked up” on its body. Pretty funny, which is what made me download the book in the first place.
My favorite section in the book is where Tommy Siegel draws a bunch of different hearts as they would appear on their Tinder bios. Many of them are quite hilarious, like one with a heart dressed in a graduation robe with the caption, “OK fine, this photo is from ten years ago.” If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, definitely get “Candy Hearts” for a quick, entertaining read.
Rating: 3 on 5.