Those fans of “Heartstopper” by Alice Oseman might have read this book already. If you haven’t yet, here’s an honest summary and review of the book “Loveless” by the award-winning author, Alice Oseman.
The story follows an 18-year-old girl named Georgia Warr, who is entering her first year at Durham University. She’s never been in love, but she hasn’t given up hope. Georgia goes on a self-discovery journey as an aromantic and asexual individual when she enters college. Georgia decides to make a plan to find love, and her actions soon start to affect her friends and she questions why romance seems so easy for them, yet not for her.
She discovers new terms, like aromantic and asexual, and she is more uncertain of who she is and her feelings than ever. She realizes that true love, the one thing that she had been searching for, is not limited to romance, but can also count for friendships and other types of love. This book is very engaging and relatable for people who don’t necessarily have crushes.
My Review
I found this book after reading the “Heartstopper” series, and read it in about a day. I wanted to read it again and saw this as an opportunity to. After revisiting it, I started to remember how much I loved this book. Georgia has such a good character arc and the other characters you meet are well-written. Reading “Loveless” was like a breath of fresh air compared to all of the books written with romance as a main storyline or subplot.
I found the book to be very engaging, realistic, and relatable. The characters are well-developed, with flaws, and Oseman’s writing style is amazing. I was sure I would like it as soon as I saw it at the bookstore. There are multiple characters with multiple sexualities, not just aro/ace. Georgia goes through this internal conflict, trying to figure out why she can’t just like people the way everyone else does, and then she meets Sunil Jha, a gay asexual person who is confident in himself, and an inspiration to Georgia.
This book took me on an emotional rollercoaster. I was enjoying myself one moment, and then some crazy conflict with her friends happened the very next moment. It’s very enjoyable because you can see the character’s personalities shine through when it’s from a completely different point of view. I wasn’t expecting the end to be very emotional, but Georgia figuring out her sexuality and accepting that romance isn’t everything had me tearing up because of how relatable it was to me.
Oseman’s books will always be nice short reads for me when I want to wind down, and this book was not only engaging, but also relatable and fast-paced, as I read it in only a day. I highly recommend this book, along with Oseman’s other books as well.
