Oseman did a great job straddling the line between providing educational info while staying in character/style, and she’s also signposted to some great resources at the end. They were radar charts with at least a dozen different axes.

The protagonist, Georgia, is both aromantic and asexual (like Oseman herself), so obviously our experiences wouldn’t have aligned exactly, and as ‘Loveless’ so eloquently puts it: The aromantic and asexual spectrums weren’t just straight lines. Rather naïvely, I hoped that reading ‘Loveless’ would be some sort of shortcut ticket to figuring myself out, which didn’t quite happen (obviously, because that’s unrealistic). Could that be me?Īs a questioning person, I was exceptionally interested in this book. The synopsis really got me wondering (plenty of thinking time during lockdown!), especially about asexuality. Before hearing about ‘Loveless’, aromantic and asexual sexualities were something I vaguely knew of by name but not nature.

Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?Īside from being hilarious and full of vibrant, lovable characters each with their own unique story, ‘Loveless’ also gave me lots of food for thought. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. As she starts university with her best friends, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.īut Georgia’s romance plans land her and her friends in their own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her.

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