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About The Book:
Title: LOVELESS
Author: Alice Oseman
Pub. Date: March 1, 2022
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Pages: 432
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
For fans
of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a
funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that
love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance.
From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional
YA novel about discovering that it's okay if you don't have sexual or romantic
feelings for anyone . . . since there are plenty of other ways to find love and
connection.
This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who
doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends
do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until
she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum --
coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative
that she's been told since birth isn't easy -- there are many mistakes along
the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known
part of your identity. But Georgia's determined to get her life right, with the
help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends.
Rating: 5/5
Review:
I’ve been trying to diversify my LGBTQ+ reading a bit more and I realized that I don’t often get to read books with asexual and aromantic characters. This book was on pretty much every list I looked at, so I was intrigued. I was very lucky to receive an ARC from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. Thank you, Scholastic!
Georgia is about to enter college and she has never had a crush on anyone, but she’s sure that one day that will change. She’s hoping that in college she can find romance. She meets her outgoing roommate Rooney who offers to help her with her goal. Things go sour when Georgia’s plan threatens to ruin her friendships. Will being introduced to the terms asexual and aromantic help her on her way?
This is another book where I can honestly say that my favorite thing are the characters. These characters are written quite realistically. They aren’t perfect nor are they complete mess-ups. They’re college students. They’re flawed and they make bad decisions. Sometimes they’re even slightly shitty people. Georgia screws up and makes bad decisions, but she doesn’t do it out of hate or anger. She does it because she’s a teenager trying to figure things out. She’s just scared and wants to be normal, but she doesn’t know what her normal is.
I really enjoyed the friendships in this book, especially the one that developed between Georgia and Rooney throughout the book. Pip and Jason are great, and I absolutely love their friendship with Georgia, there was just something about the friendship that developed between Georgia and Rooney. They went from roommates to very close friends who genuinely want to help each other through their struggles. I loved it.
This book had a lot of fun moments that I just really enjoyed. There were serious topics that were being discussed, but then there were less serious moments. Like them tagging Shakespeare’s plays as though they were fanfiction (which I never knew I needed for all his plays until this). The college marriage proposals. There’s enough fun in this book where nothing feels too heavy, and the heavy parts are lightened up.
I did have a note that I wanted to add to this book. There is a conversation that happens around the 200-page mark, at least in my copy, where they discuss the possibility of Georgia being asexual. This conversation had me asking questions and questioning my own sexuality. So, props to Oseman she made me realize something about myself. Always fun!
I really loved this book! I can definitely see myself re-reading it many times in the future. I thought it was great even if it wasn’t always realistic.
About Alice Oseman:
Alice
Oseman was born in
1994 in Kent, England. She graduated from Durham University and is the author
of YA contemporaries Solitaire, Radio Silence, and I Was Born
for This. Visit Alice online at aliceoseman.com or on Twitter @AliceOseman.
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Giveaway Details:
3 winners
will receive a finished copy of LOVELESS, US Only.
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