Loveless

by Alice Oseman

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

A deeply human and sincerely heartfelt story from the author of Heartstopper, Loveless is funny, timely, honest and so much more. It's the story of a college student grappling with the narrative she was raised with as she explores what love and connection really means.

Georgia has never kissed anybody. She has never been in love and she does not know why. As a devotee to fanfiction, she is sure this will soon change. Once she starts college, she is bound to find love. Something does not add up. The more she tries, the more confused she gets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789877477993
Publisher:	Lectorum Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	01/15/2023
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England, and is a #1 New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator. As well as writing and illustrating Heartstopper, Alice is the author of two Heartstopper novellas, Nick and Charlie and This Winter, and four YA novels: Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless, winner of the YA Book Prize. She also writes and executive produces the Emmy Award–winning television adaptation of Heartstopper. Visit her online at aliceoseman.com.

Editorial Reviews

2021-09-15
A British teen works on accepting her aro-ace identity.

Eighteen-year-old White British Georgia is tired of feeling different. She loves the theoretical idea of romance and isn’t opposed to reading a steamy fanfic now and then, but real-life romantic and sexual experiences make her feel squicky. Heading off to Durham University, she’s determined that if she tries hard enough, she can have these types of attractions despite not understanding how her friends can be “out there just craving genitals and embarrassment.” When she and her two best friends—masc-leaning Colombian British lesbian Pip and White cishet Jason—join her new roommate Rooney’s attempt to revive their uni’s Shakespeare Society, drama abounds. Rooney and Pip feud and flirt, Georgia and Jason attempt to date despite Jason’s clear interest and Georgia’s clear apathy, friendships are ruined, friendships are repaired. Outgoing pansexual Rooney’s supposedly sex-positive attitude is undermined by her use of hookups as a method of self-harm. Georgia’s third-year mentor, nonbinary Indian Sunil, is a homoromantic asexual, and her older cousin Ellis is aro-ace, but their main functions are to facilitate infodumping centered on Georgia’s experiences rather than to provide rich explorations of the impact of intersectional identities. Readers should be prepared for many pages of Georgia’s vivid, unrelenting internalized aro- and ace-phobia, making this an incredibly validating mirror, an eye-opening window, or, for some, a read where the pain may outweigh the gain.

A messy, imperfect, and necessary portrayal of a drastically underrepresented identity. (resources) (Fiction. 15-adult)

Kirkus Reviews