This made it an incredibly healing experience right from the start. The way this was done spoke to me so much, it was like seeing my own experiences as a teenager reflected back to me. Starting out, this book deals a lot with internalized aphobia – feeling like there’s something wrong with you for not experiencing sexual or romantic attraction. This book was almost too relatable for me, and it was at times a painful experience reading it. I don’t know how she did it, but Alice Oseman seems to have reached into my brain and written a book about me. Sunil, ultra-confident Indian gay asexual non-binary person and Georgia’s “college parent”, who fights all the gatekeepers and is always oversharing.Rooney, sex-positive pansexual extrovert who’s fast friends with just about anyone, but do they truly know her?.Jason, the literal chillest dude ever, Token Straight, has two dads, Scooby-Doo stan, owns the cosiest teddy coat which is a recurring theme and a literal metaphor for how warm he is as a person.Pip, Colombian lesbian who feels cursed to fall for straight girls, funniest character, doesn’t like to be called Felipa.Georgia, of course, who’s my questioning aroace baby and who basically *is* 17-year-old me (she’s 18 though!).

I’ll delve into the aroace rep later, but I can also confirm this is a really fun story as well: they’re putting on a play of Shakespeare’s “greatest hits”! And I absolutely loved the characters: This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?

With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.Īs she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.īut when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met.

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman – one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA. There's going to be a LONG review /pHUR2fRkDO The way I'm only 4% into Loveless and already feel SEEN

Loveless book review