I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the LOVELESS by Alice Oseman Blog Tour hosted
by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
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.
Title: LOVELESS
Author: Alice Oseman
Pub. Date: March 1, 2022
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Pages: 432
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.
How ever can I rate and review a book written with such perfection? A book that has wrenched my heart from my chest, stomped on it a few times, and then placed it back gently, all the stronger for it? I will try and articulate it as well as possible.
Georgia's struggles in University go further than her roommate and workload. She only really wants one thing: to fall in love. She hasn't even had her first kiss yet (totally OK btw) and she fears others will look down on her for it. Her discovery of being an asexual, aromantic is one of heartache and pain, and coming to terms with it may even tear apart her own relationships.
Not since Radio Silence has a book had me wanting to reach through the pages to hug the protagonists. This book will open your eyes; if you're an ally, you have to know more about it to understand, right? Georgia's circle of friends felt so real and I appreciated the theme of platonic love.
I can relate to this story sooooo much which is why it hit me the way it did. Oseman has a way of writing her characters with such raw emotion that you can't help but feel it. Her books always feel like coming home.
“... though I didn’t really understand why everyone was in love with Timothée Chalamet.”
That is the only part I cannot relate to. I love me some Timothee' :D
Rating: a gazillion stars. Go buy it now 🥰
Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy of LOVELESS, US Only.
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