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Loveless by Alice Oseman

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oddlyghoul's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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looking4thedr's review against another edition

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I DEVOURED this book. It’s become one of my all time favourites now. I loved ALL the characters even if I was screaming at them to make better decisions. This book was really comforting and written in a way that you felt like you were friends with the main characters, going along with them in their fun times and struggles.

There’s a sentiment that emerges throughout the book that friendships are just as, if not more, important than romantic relationships (which I wholeheartedly agree with) and I loved that a lot.

There’s also a line near the end that Georgia’s cousin tells her that goes something like ‘treat your friends with the same magic you’d treat a romantic relationship’, and that really impacted me, because I’d never thought about it that way before. Especially with the not being able to fall in love thing, I thought the sentiment was really beautiful :)
It was that bit as well as the parts where Georgia and Rooney did big gestures in the name of friendship; that totally got me in the feels.

To finish off this review, all I have to say is: thank goodness for Sunil <3

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bimess_'s review

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sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

After taking into consideration many of my fellow poc who are on the aroace spectrum, I do not recommend this book to anyone who's figuring out their sexuality. To anyone that expects for the side characters (specifically the poc characters) to have any development outside the main character, they don't.

I did want to know more of the sidecharacters. Especially Pip since I'm a latine person myself. I don't think it was even mentioned which country her family is from either which angers me.

At the end of the day, I enjoyed the book because I had a similar inner war with myself. In terms of being aro and bi simultaneously.

It's true Oseman could've done more. My hope is for this book to be saved and given a sequel that focused on Pip and Sunil. Since they're the ones who had the potential to have powerful stories. But again, Oseman is white. So I'm weary of this as well. Perhaps an adaptation of their stories would be better.

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emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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the_true_monroe's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is doing wonders. It is a beautiful story overall and the character development is amazing- I love so many of the characters and found myself tearing up at moments of platonic love. But also, having asexuality and aromanticism the forefront of a young adult novel by such a popular author is lifechanging. I was the same age as Georgia when I began to realize I was asexual, and had so many similar thoughts and experiences but I am just picturing the people both (1) younger than her who will be able to find the words for what they were feeling before they get into sticky situations or feel too much self hatred and (2) people older than Georgia reading this who may have been through so much pain and confusion due to feeling like something was wrong with them since they could not feel certain ways. We need more stories like this, not just with an asexual/ aromantic focus but with an emphasis on platonic love and how it is not a lower level than romantic love.

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josiee's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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teaskate's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

When you start a book you often have an idea in what direction the story will go and you mentally prepare yourself for it. I didn’t expect Loveless to squeeze my heart as much as it did. I was not ready to be thrown into the story of a teenager that tries to navigate around her sexuality that so many people don’t know or don’t understand and to see this representation really made me so happy because it’s almost none existing in todays media. Even though I myself don’t identify as asexual or aromatic, seeing this representation made me think about all the people that feel seen by it and that really makes me happy. I really enjoyed the story

From Georgias journal to her friends and their struggles and storylines, every storyline showed that you’re not alone in this and I feel like many people need to hear that phrase more

so yeah I recommend this book to everyone you will feel loved, seen and this topic really deserves more attention. Also now I am up to date with every book by Alice Oseman and I am beyond exited about what’s next. Thank you :)

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cinnamonshivvs's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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marioncromb's review against another edition

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emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I may have known i was ace since i was 13, but i still could have done with having this book before/at uni. It made me cry at the end and also a bit in the middle

Its fanfic-y, making it an easy/quick read, but doesn't have too many levels. A bit preachy/aroace 101, but very relatable! Annoying that he/they Sunil was only referred to with he/him pronouns throughout, but i hope/took it slightly more as a Georgia doesn't really know much about non binary people yet

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dreamweaver's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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