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A review by moomoo_reads
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
5.0
Pardon me while I just gush about this amazing series.
I can't even begin to express how fucking much I love and adore this story. It's literally perfect and so wonderfully written and executed. Not to mention the show, which stays so true to the source material unlike any book to show/movie adaptation I've ever seen. You truly get to see the each individual moment and scene come to life, including the word for word dialogue and setting and all those little details. Any changes they have made are so welcomed and just make the story even better. They add onto it and enhance it, rather than destroy it.
But that's enough about the show, this is a book review after all.
The way this story and these characters are written, is just so real and authentic. Nothing feels forced for the sake of drama or conflict. It's a real world setting, with real world conflict and struggles that are felt and dealt with in a really real way. And going back to the show for a second, the actors portray all of this in a very real way. Like, they don't feel like some made up characters in some show, they feel like real, normal people, that you would meet and talk to and be friends with in real life. Not some far-fetched stereotypical, cliches as you constantly see in North-American media of what high school and teenagers are like. Which isn't bad per say, I mean it's fiction for a reason, but it's really nice and refreshing to read and watch a story like this; where the characters and story don't feel fictitious, but like real people that live in our world.
The story itself also just really hits home for queer people and the queer experience. Or at least it does for this gay. It's a queer story written, written by a queer author, for a queer audience. And I love it. I love the portrayal of trying to figure out ones sexuality, I can really identify with Nick in that way. The confusion, the google searches... all of it. It's so authentic.
I don't think I will ever love a story as much as I love this one. I can't even come close to accurately explaining how much I love this story and these characters and their friendships and every little thing that makes this story so amazing. Like, how there's no unnecessary drama just for the sake of having drama or that the characters haven't been reduced to shitty cliches that makes them predictable, wishy-washy assholes. Nick is literally the sweetest, kindest, most compassionate, caring and respectful guy. Him and Charlie both deserve the world.
This is by far the best queer story/representation I've ever come across. It gives me all the feels. And is 100% my comfort show/book.
I can't even begin to express how fucking much I love and adore this story. It's literally perfect and so wonderfully written and executed. Not to mention the show, which stays so true to the source material unlike any book to show/movie adaptation I've ever seen. You truly get to see the each individual moment and scene come to life, including the word for word dialogue and setting and all those little details. Any changes they have made are so welcomed and just make the story even better. They add onto it and enhance it, rather than destroy it.
But that's enough about the show, this is a book review after all.
The way this story and these characters are written, is just so real and authentic. Nothing feels forced for the sake of drama or conflict. It's a real world setting, with real world conflict and struggles that are felt and dealt with in a really real way. And going back to the show for a second, the actors portray all of this in a very real way. Like, they don't feel like some made up characters in some show, they feel like real, normal people, that you would meet and talk to and be friends with in real life. Not some far-fetched stereotypical, cliches as you constantly see in North-American media of what high school and teenagers are like. Which isn't bad per say, I mean it's fiction for a reason, but it's really nice and refreshing to read and watch a story like this; where the characters and story don't feel fictitious, but like real people that live in our world.
The story itself also just really hits home for queer people and the queer experience. Or at least it does for this gay. It's a queer story written, written by a queer author, for a queer audience. And I love it. I love the portrayal of trying to figure out ones sexuality, I can really identify with Nick in that way. The confusion, the google searches... all of it. It's so authentic.
I don't think I will ever love a story as much as I love this one. I can't even come close to accurately explaining how much I love this story and these characters and their friendships and every little thing that makes this story so amazing. Like, how there's no unnecessary drama just for the sake of having drama or that the characters haven't been reduced to shitty cliches that makes them predictable, wishy-washy assholes. Nick is literally the sweetest, kindest, most compassionate, caring and respectful guy. Him and Charlie both deserve the world.
This is by far the best queer story/representation I've ever come across. It gives me all the feels. And is 100% my comfort show/book.