Loveless: TikTok made me buy it! The teen bestseller and winner of the YA Book Prize 2021, from the creator of Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER

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Pip is Georgia's other best friend from school and (I believe) the only woman of color in this book (pls correct me if I'm wrong). And, of course, she is portrayed as this stereotypical, loud, rude, and petty Latina. Wow, Alice. Great job. She was just as insufferable as Georgia in my opinion. The main conflict of the book (if you can call it that) revolved around Pip and this absolutely lazy and unnecessary miscommunication and I just could not take it. It's 2020 for God's sake, craft a conflict that actually makes sense instead of lazily utilizing miscommunication for some petty high school drama. 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 This book could've used this opportunity to talk about the existence of platonic relationships and how there are people who live as non-romantic couples.. instead it just ended in this weird triangle situation with Georgia, Rooney and Pip, introducing no boundaries whatsoever, and I cannot even get into the mess that all of that was. Secondly, we have Rooney. As I said, she is introduced as this outgoing party type and has lots of casual sex. Plus, she is pansexual. Her character arc could've been so interesting and could've contributed some nuance to the book, but Alice Oseman decided to butcher it completely (mild spoiler again): it turns out that the reason behind her having a lot of casual sex is that she was in an abusive relationship before and wants to "fill a hole" by having sex with people. Like???? seriously??? Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021’ Irish Times

Oseman’s strong suit is, undoubtedly, her characters. Rich, engaging and impeccably written, Solitaire has a fascinating range of characters you can’t resist getting behind. Radio Silence boasts just as good a cast and what’s instantly noticeable is that it’s significantly more culturally diverse than Solitaire. Alice Oseman is entirely aware of this. I read a lot of books in my first year at uni outside the course so as well as my course reading I read a lot of YA books. I read a lot of YA books because Solitaire came out and I wanted to know what else was out there. But then I got into my second year at uni, I hadn’t enjoyed my first year, and trying to write book two was taking so long I was getting so stressed about it. Reading other books, my author peers, was making me stressed because ‘oh God these people are writing these really good books, how am I supposed to compare?’” Book Genre: Asexual, Contemporary, Fiction, GLBT, LGBT, Queer, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Contemporary

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I listened to the audiobook and read along in the ebook, which was such an immersive experience. The audio was great – the narrator captured the tone of voice of the novel very well.

Inky Winners Announced! | Inside A Dog". insideadog.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018 . Retrieved 7 December 2017. British Book Awards 2022 - Full list of nominees". The National Wales. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022 . Retrieved 23 May 2022. 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. BAFTA Television 2023: The Nominations". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 16 March 2023 . Retrieved 22 March 2023. my review for loveless is finally up! ✨it's a long one, so I will be linking to it on my blog rather than posting it on here. As a reader, I saw a lot of my own a-spec experience within the book, and that was amazing, but it also had (unintentional) content which let down other identities (including friends within those identities), and that is something which must be highlighted and discussed.

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The plot here is simple and predictable but the focus is on Georgia and her group of friends. And that's where this story shines for me. While Georgia took some time to find herself, I love her portrayal of this girl who tries to lose herself in societal parameters because that's what she's seen around her that is to find someone to spend rest of your life with. She is afraid but can't do what her heart doesn't permit her to do. Some help from friends and she accepts that she is aromantic and asexual. Also alongside the emotional crises we also have a student theatre directorial rivalry taken way too seriously, a sexually-charged battle on a bouncy castle, various characters being adopted by the university Pride Society, a boy who has a passion for the live-action Scooby-Doo duology, and some large, magical gestures of platonic love!

Drawn to reading: Using comics and illustrated stories to promote literacy in children". Irish Examiner. 19 February 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020 . Retrieved 25 February 2020. Sadly, for me, this book just made me feel an immense amount of shame. I ID as pansexual, panromantic, demiromantic. And in my opinion, I feel like this book very much makes the reader feel like this is THE ONLY aroace experience, and…. it is just not. Sexuality can be so very fluid, and especially your feelings and experiences on the aro and ace spectrums can be so very vast and different. Rooney paused. “I think it’s pretty amazing that you haven’t felt peer-pressured into doing anything by now. You haven’t made yourself do anything you didn’t want to do. You haven

Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021' Irish Times This character is portrayed as someone who seems very sex positive but throughout this book we find out that she basically only slept with people as a coping mechanism for her feelings and emotions that she doesn't want to deal with. And I am not saying that this experience can't be valid but, first of all, this book really needed this perspective of sex being something that many people do enjoy and can do without any commitment, and, again, all of this just perpetuated an already harmful stereotype without ever talking about it.

I do hope that loveless opens the gates for more a-spec books to be published, and they are able to learn from loveless's pros and cons to handle the intersection of topics and identities in a better way. And it is entirely possible to read loveless and relate to the heroine's experience, but also be cognizant of how and where it lets other identities down at the same time. Georgia :- aro/ace protagonist ,shy, confused about herself, introvert, hates partying not because she is under confident but she dreads the idea of sweat bodies and slippery floors, loves theatre ,who sets off to journey to her college in search of love but end up realizing that how platonic friendship are just as important and just as beautiful !! I really really love her like I could totally connect to her expect some parts. I wanna quote some parts here:- 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. Georgia is our main character and I hated her :-) She was actually insufferable and I find it ironic that this book is all about strong friendships when Georgia is such an incredibly awful friend. First off, she is constantly judging Rooney (her uni roommate) for enjoying casual sex and going out a lot which is problematic to begin with. Actually, she judges everyone for having sex and being in relationships. Sure, I can understand that she needs to convey this feeling of being different than what society expects of you, but going around and shaming people for their sex/relationship lives is more than unnecessary. What I had the biggest problem with, however, is the way in which she treated one of her best friends, Jason (mild spoiler coming at ya): she actively uses him to experiment with her own feelings and her sexuality even though she knows full well that he has feelings for her. BIG RED FLAG. But platonic friendships are so important, right???? ha ha. The irony.

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