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shaun_trinh 's review for:
Heartstopper Volume 1
by Alice Oseman
I went to a cafe with my family today and decided I wanted to read so I brought this book with me because I knew it’d be a nice, easy read and it was exactly that. The story was really digestible and had light tones throughout the entire story, while also covering serious topics and feelings that LGBTQ+ people go through. Oseman kept the light, dorky feeling of the story, but still gave these genuine moments the respect they deserved.
The main characters (Charlie and Nick) were really likable and fit the mood for this story. You can see how their relationship ship develops from being completely platonic, to the possibility of something more, despite a lot of the pages not having a lot of dialogue.
The only thing stopping me giving this book a 5-star review was that at some points the characters sounded a bit too childish due to the Oseman wanting to maintain their comedic, light-hearted nature. This made reading some pages that actually did have dialogue a bit of a drag because it felt like I was actually reading a children’s book.
I also wish the side characters had a bit more of a presence, they only really had 2-5 lines each if that and barley affected the story. But on the flip side I don’t know if I would like the story as much if the story spent too much time on characters that weren’t Charlie and Nick.
Overall though this book intended to be a quick, cute read about a developing relationship between two characters and Oseman achieved that. I have the 2nd book at home and I’m excited to see how Charlie and Nick’s story goes moving forward after how volume 1 left off.
The main characters (Charlie and Nick) were really likable and fit the mood for this story. You can see how their relationship ship develops from being completely platonic, to the possibility of something more, despite a lot of the pages not having a lot of dialogue.
The only thing stopping me giving this book a 5-star review was that at some points the characters sounded a bit too childish due to the Oseman wanting to maintain their comedic, light-hearted nature. This made reading some pages that actually did have dialogue a bit of a drag because it felt like I was actually reading a children’s book.
I also wish the side characters had a bit more of a presence, they only really had 2-5 lines each if that and barley affected the story. But on the flip side I don’t know if I would like the story as much if the story spent too much time on characters that weren’t Charlie and Nick.
Overall though this book intended to be a quick, cute read about a developing relationship between two characters and Oseman achieved that. I have the 2nd book at home and I’m excited to see how Charlie and Nick’s story goes moving forward after how volume 1 left off.