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4.26 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
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
emotional
funny
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
I've tried writing this review several times now, but all I can say is that in many ways Georgia, her flaws, their consequences, and the end goal of finding relative peace in your queerness and importance in your friendships really resonated with me and brings me back to my own messy way of growing up and figuring all this out in an amatonormative world without anyone to really help.
Love the journey of friendship and finding yourself in this one.
at this point my read list is just an autistic protagonist list
oh also i got so annoyed at how the characters never had a proper conversation where they told each other everything like i know that’s conflict but they’re meant to be besties!!!
(i wish i could do half stars on goodreads)
oh also i got so annoyed at how the characters never had a proper conversation where they told each other everything like i know that’s conflict but they’re meant to be besties!!!
(i wish i could do half stars on goodreads)
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
From me, #loveless by #aliceoseman gets 3.75 ⭐! 🥳
These past few days I was struggling a little to pick up my main #book 🫣 and I decided I needed something easier to listen to. 🙃...luckily for me, #everand came to the rescue with this amazing suggestion!☺️
I had this title on my #tbr since it first appeared, but I'm glad I waited to #read it.🙂 This subject matter is very personal to me and I definitely believe that you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy it.😅
General info :a #ya #contemporary story about queerness and #lgbtq community, with particular focus on aro-ace identities; a #comingofage set in college ; a story about friends, romance and connections☺️
CW : none
#bookthoughts
This story follows Georgia and her friends ( Pip and Jason), as they start their first year of college away from home. All three of them face new challenges ( especially Georgia who's determined to start a new life and be like everyone else), new relationships and friendships, while university life engulfs them.
As I said before, this subject is very personal to me...and I really believe that my 18-20 year old me would have had a lot of closure by #reading this.☺️..alas🥲, such is life.
I really liked Georgia, Jason and Rooney ( Georgia's roommate)😄...Pip, I liked her but a little less🤷🏼♀️, maybe the less important role in the overall story had something to do with that.
I felt connected to Georgia in quite a lot of ways 😅...maybe 80% or so.🧐..and I has multiple moments in which I said to myself : yep, being there, done that.🤣
She's really relatable as a character as well, even if you're not like her, as she's struggling with university life ( school, partying, making friends and mistakes 🤭). For those of you wanting to see how an introvert manages to survive such a stimulating environment...this is a good book for you.🙂
The strength of the story can be found in the themes : friendship, what constitutes family, acceptance of self and others, hopefullnes.
Georgia start very insecure, not even knowing who she is, but despite that..she's not judgemental of Rooney ( who's completely opposite of her), supportive of Pip, kind to Jason and represents a new friendship for Sunil ( a 3rd year student, who's role I don't want to divulge 🤭). I really liked her inner journey in discovering herself both as an aro-ace, but also as a person. She has moments of denial, rage, regrets and even absolute despair, as she's trying to be 'normal'😢.
I really saw myself in her.🥲
Wjth that being said, the next character that's developed is Rooney. She's an extrovert with lots of baggage. She makes mistakes, lives a style that brings her more regrets than anything else, but she finds a friend in Georgia.🥹 I really liked her as a best friend for Georgia waaay more than Pip. 🫣...mainly because she was willing to listen and believe Georgia.😊
Next...Jason...well, he's a nice guy, a nice friend, but besides the conflict he had with Georgia, I didn't really care about him. 😅 Sunil on the other hand 👀...he was an older brother figure 👌..and I'll live it at that.🙃
The plot : Due to this being a contemporary story...the plot is pretty simple : how friendships evolve in a new environment with challenges and personal conflicts...only...add Shakespeare and theatre 😅🤷🏼♀️🤣.
I'll be honest, the actual plot was the reason I took a full star from the story 🫣...I just didn't care, not to mention...it felt pretty meandering and flimsy when so much stuff was already happening .🤷🏼♀️
The 0.25 was retracted due to Georgia's inability to speak / remember to do something when she definitely should have.😕
All in all, this was a great read, perfect for young adults who might need a little help figuring out stuff, and a good college story centering friendships, drama and change.🥰
Highly recommended you give it a try.🙃
P.S. I really liked Ellis( Georgia 's cousin) and her part in the story 😌...very relatable and an important example for Georgia herself.👌
These past few days I was struggling a little to pick up my main #book 🫣 and I decided I needed something easier to listen to. 🙃...luckily for me, #everand came to the rescue with this amazing suggestion!☺️
I had this title on my #tbr since it first appeared, but I'm glad I waited to #read it.🙂 This subject matter is very personal to me and I definitely believe that you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy it.😅
General info :a #ya #contemporary story about queerness and #lgbtq community, with particular focus on aro-ace identities; a #comingofage set in college ; a story about friends, romance and connections☺️
CW : none
#bookthoughts
This story follows Georgia and her friends ( Pip and Jason), as they start their first year of college away from home. All three of them face new challenges ( especially Georgia who's determined to start a new life and be like everyone else), new relationships and friendships, while university life engulfs them.
As I said before, this subject is very personal to me...and I really believe that my 18-20 year old me would have had a lot of closure by #reading this.☺️..alas🥲, such is life.
I really liked Georgia, Jason and Rooney ( Georgia's roommate)😄...Pip, I liked her but a little less🤷🏼♀️, maybe the less important role in the overall story had something to do with that.
I felt connected to Georgia in quite a lot of ways 😅...maybe 80% or so.🧐..and I has multiple moments in which I said to myself : yep, being there, done that.🤣
She's really relatable as a character as well, even if you're not like her, as she's struggling with university life ( school, partying, making friends and mistakes 🤭). For those of you wanting to see how an introvert manages to survive such a stimulating environment...this is a good book for you.🙂
The strength of the story can be found in the themes : friendship, what constitutes family, acceptance of self and others, hopefullnes.
Georgia start very insecure, not even knowing who she is, but despite that..she's not judgemental of Rooney ( who's completely opposite of her), supportive of Pip, kind to Jason and represents a new friendship for Sunil ( a 3rd year student, who's role I don't want to divulge 🤭). I really liked her inner journey in discovering herself both as an aro-ace, but also as a person. She has moments of denial, rage, regrets and even absolute despair, as she's trying to be 'normal'😢.
I really saw myself in her.🥲
Wjth that being said, the next character that's developed is Rooney. She's an extrovert with lots of baggage. She makes mistakes, lives a style that brings her more regrets than anything else, but she finds a friend in Georgia.🥹 I really liked her as a best friend for Georgia waaay more than Pip. 🫣...mainly because she was willing to listen and believe Georgia.😊
Next...Jason...well, he's a nice guy, a nice friend, but besides the conflict he had with Georgia, I didn't really care about him. 😅 Sunil on the other hand 👀...he was an older brother figure 👌..and I'll live it at that.🙃
The plot : Due to this being a contemporary story...the plot is pretty simple : how friendships evolve in a new environment with challenges and personal conflicts...only...add Shakespeare and theatre 😅🤷🏼♀️🤣.
I'll be honest, the actual plot was the reason I took a full star from the story 🫣...I just didn't care, not to mention...it felt pretty meandering and flimsy when so much stuff was already happening .🤷🏼♀️
The 0.25 was retracted due to Georgia's inability to speak / remember to do something when she definitely should have.😕
All in all, this was a great read, perfect for young adults who might need a little help figuring out stuff, and a good college story centering friendships, drama and change.🥰
Highly recommended you give it a try.🙃
P.S. I really liked Ellis( Georgia 's cousin) and her part in the story 😌...very relatable and an important example for Georgia herself.👌
Loveless: książka o Aseksualności i o Aromantyzmie, teraz nie musicie jej czytać. Jest to okej queer nowelka z tym że powiela te same schematy: główny wątek jest typową historią o odkryciu siebie i samoakceptacji i o nieudolnych próbach w dążeniu do celu. Pierwszy side wątek to okropnie sztampowe lesbian Enemies to Lovers, i dosłownie od pierwszego spotkania czuć że będą razem. No a drugi to jest typowe dla coming of agey w highschool/uniwerku robimy projekt, projekt sie jebie, ale w finale i tak nam sie udaje. Niby jest git ale nie warto tbh 6/10
I think I may be aromantic. Or at least on the aromantic spectrum, though I’m not sure where. This is the last book in the osemanverse that I needed to finish, and I put off reading it for ages because I was scared it would resonate with me and I’d have to confront the fact that I’m probably some flavour of aro-ace.
But, as you can see I have read it. And I’m so glad I did.
I’m still not sure where I stand sexuality-wise, but the idea of being aro and/or ace isn’t as daunting anymore, and I have Georgia Warr and Alice Oseman to thank for that.
If you haven’t already read this book, please please do, I will literally recommend it until my breath runs out.
But, as you can see I have read it. And I’m so glad I did.
I’m still not sure where I stand sexuality-wise, but the idea of being aro and/or ace isn’t as daunting anymore, and I have Georgia Warr and Alice Oseman to thank for that.
If you haven’t already read this book, please please do, I will literally recommend it until my breath runs out.
I don't know how to rate this book. On one hand I did like the writing. And the aroace rep is very important. But I didn't like Georgia at all. And when she is the main character, it's a huge problem.
- For a book that's all about platonic magic, she's not a good friend
- She uses Jason as an experiment when she KNOWS he has feelings for her
- Pip, her other best friend talks about how hard it's to be a lesbian and Latinx and she says "I would love to be gay too" WTF
- She constantly judges Rooney, her roommate for having casual sex. She judges everyone for having sex. While she is sex repulsed (the word is never mentioned), I wish she wasn't so judgemental. Rooney could have been an amazing character but then it turns out she's having casual sex only because of her previous abusive relationship. Having a pansexual character admit to having sex only "to fill a hole" feels like a pretty harmful stereotype
- Sunil, another side character who is asexual and non binary. And also Indian, which is basically referenced once. And 'they' is never used even though the "he/they" pin is introduced in the book.
- I didn't like how every character existed just to further Georgia's journey; So many lost opportunities for complex character development
- stupid miscommunication drama and the fact that Georgia never really apologises
-the aroace spectrum is very wide and I feel like it could have explored a lot more.
As a lesbian and an Indian who's still figuring out where I am on the ace spectrum, this book was so not for me.
- For a book that's all about platonic magic, she's not a good friend
- She uses Jason as an experiment when she KNOWS he has feelings for her
- Pip, her other best friend talks about how hard it's to be a lesbian and Latinx and she says "I would love to be gay too" WTF
- She constantly judges Rooney, her roommate for having casual sex. She judges everyone for having sex. While she is sex repulsed (the word is never mentioned), I wish she wasn't so judgemental. Rooney could have been an amazing character but then it turns out she's having casual sex only because of her previous abusive relationship. Having a pansexual character admit to having sex only "to fill a hole" feels like a pretty harmful stereotype
- Sunil, another side character who is asexual and non binary. And also Indian, which is basically referenced once. And 'they' is never used even though the "he/they" pin is introduced in the book.
- I didn't like how every character existed just to further Georgia's journey; So many lost opportunities for complex character development
- stupid miscommunication drama and the fact that Georgia never really apologises
-the aroace spectrum is very wide and I feel like it could have explored a lot more.
As a lesbian and an Indian who's still figuring out where I am on the ace spectrum, this book was so not for me.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
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