Book review: Loveless by Alice Oseman Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never eve
Book review: Loveless by Alice Oseman Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush. As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, she’s ready to find romance. But with new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.Okay. *deep breath* Here goes. It’s taken me months to be able to write this review. As an asexual aromantic woman who discovered her asexuality at uni, Loveless was a highly personal reading experience for me. Georgia’s experiences aren’t universal, and while there’s certainly parts of her journey towards accepting her sexuality that I couldn’t relate to, as a whole, Loveless resonated with me more than any other book I’ve read featuring an asexual or aromantic protagonist. There are few authors who I’d trust to write a questioning aroace protagonist coming to terms with their sexuality. Alice Oseman is at the top of that very short list. From the moment Oseman mentioned plans to write a book with an aroace protagonist on tumblr, I knew that this book would be something special. Of course, that’s partly due to the fact that Oseman herself identifies as aroace, but the main reason why I was so confident that I would love Loveless is because of the way she writes friendships. Oseman gives platonic relationships the warmth and development and sweeping grand gestures which are usually reserved for romance, and speaking as an aroace woman who’s a sucker for found family narratives, the friendships in Oseman’s novels have never failed to give me stomach butterflies.Loveless is no exception: I adore the group of Shakespeare nerds at the heart of this novel and I can’t even think about them without smiling. Georgia and Rooney’s bond especially got to me and (without spoiling anything) there’s one scene in particular between them that I’ve re-read more times than I can count. I still don’t feel like I’ve adequately put into words just how beautiful and meaningful this book is to me. There’s so much more to love in this novel - the Shakespeare references, the commentary on social pressures put on young adults, the rivals-to-lovers relationship between Georgia’s two best friends and, of course, Jason’s bizzarre Scooby Doo obsession.Absolutey, without a doubt, one of my favourite new releases of 2020. I’m so excited to see where Oseman’s career goes from here.Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s BooksRating: 5 stars | ★★★★★Review cross-posted to GoodreadsBuy on Amazon: US | UK -- source link
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