tells the story of a young woman named Georgia at the pivotal moment between the end of high school and the beginning of university. The author, known widely for her series 'Heartstopper,' which I'm now wondering if I should be adding to my list as well. Luckily for me, that same friend (bookworm_panda) decided to host her first group read using this book for Ace Week and I decided it was a perfect time to participate in something else I'd never done before. Still, I likely would have added it to my ever-growing TBR list and maybe gotten to it in a year or so unless my interest in it became eclipsed by other things until I forgot about it. simultaneously and there's little I love better than a clever use of contradictions.
There's something about the design, even before paired with its title. When it first popped up on a friend's Instagram feed, I found the cover to be compelling enough to read more. This book though was a bit of an exception.
I don't dislike it, I just don't run across a lot of blurbs for contemporary pieces that sound interesting to me and more often than not, I rarely even get past the covers which I tend to find bland artistically. In my defense, I don't read a lot of contemporary. (Dec.'Loveless' is the fourth novel by Alice Oseman, a contemporary YA author that everyone seems to know, but me. Oseman maintains an energetic pace while offering realistic and wide-ranging takes on identity, from internalized phobia to true self-love. Gradually, Georgia accepts her identity, finds role models, and puts her energy into friendships-just in time for a rom-com-style denouement that affirms human connection in any form. After a lively, candid conversation with her pansexual roommate Rooney, cued white, about wank fantasies, and a crash course in asexuality from college-assigned mentor, nonbinary Sunil, who identifies as homoromantic asexual, Georgia concludes that she is aro-ace: “How could I feel so sad about giving up these things I did not actually want?” she wonders.
As Georgia and her friends-Colombian British Pip, who’s gay, and Jason, who’s white and straight-rehearse a medley of romantic Shakespearean scenes in their theater group, playing Juliet (and, indeed, any attempts at kissing) makes her “feel sort of nauseated.” But Georgia’s not gay, and dating Jason only leads to hurt (his) and confusion (hers). Combining the plotting of a college sex romp with a queer sensibility that foregrounds aro-ace identity, Oseman’s frank, kindhearted novel follows Georgia Warr, a white British college freshman curious about finding romance of the sort she reads about in fan fiction.
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