My one beef is the way all the marketing is being poured into this book, to the point where aro/ace-spec readers find themselves being alienated to not see themselves in this book, because publishing is positioning this as the book about aromanticism and asexuality, after having little to no room for it, instead of making more space for books like this at the table and marketing them all as different perspectives on a broad spectrum of identities.īecause, at the end of the day, regardless of how much, if at all, Alice Oseman consulted other aromantic asexuals, Georgia’s story will mostly resemble their experience. While I didn’t click with one of the previous Alice Oseman books I tried (it does a mechanics thing that drives me bonkers and made keeping up with it impossible), I had a lot of hope for this one. Needless to say, I’ve been anxiously waiting for the US release of Loveless for ages. But Georgia’s determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends. 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.ĭisrupting the narrative 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. Everyone seemed to say that dating + sex = love. This is the funny, honest, messy story of Georgia, who doesn’t understand why she can’t crush and kiss and make out like so many of her friends do.
ISBN-13: 978-1338751932 | $18.99 USD | 393 pages | YA Contemporaryįrom the marvelous creator of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering it’s Jay if you don’t have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone…since there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection.
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