Loveless – Alice Oseman
This story follows the character Georgia, who has never been in love and feels like she is missing a huge part of her life. So when she starts university in a different town far from home with her best friends, she is excited to see what new experiences await her.
But her desire for romantic love soon wreaks havoc in her friend group, and after being introduced to new terms like asexual and aromantic, she wonders if she is destined to be loveless forever or if she has been looking for the wrong thing all along.
This book is about her discovering her identity, coming to terms with it, and slowly accepting it. This book shows her confusion and questions about her identity.
This book does a fantastic job of portraying and explaining aromantic asexual identities. A heavy focus of this story is friendship, and that friendship is never less than romantic love. This book has a diverse cast of characters in terms of race and sexuality, and this story also has a focus on Shakespearean plays.
This is a heartwarming story with beautiful friendships, and all the characters have distinguished personalities. This is an important read as it talks about lesser discussed matters in the media. This book also teaches the reader to be able to empathize with people and not pressure them to live by societal standards.
-Ariana