A review by sara_berlin
Loveless by Alice Oseman

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-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

5.0

I cannot stress how important this book is to me, to people I know and to thousands of people out there, and how many more it could become important to. I'm so glad that this exists, I can't even begin to explain the depth of my love for everything Alice Oseman does. On a personal level, I'm still figuring out the asexual aspect of my identity (so far we've got demisexual), and even though I think I know a lot more about different kinds of attraction and how to identify them than your average person, and probably more than even most queer people, it's still so validating to have something like this printed and just written out in a way that sums up all my thoughts. The main thing is that, unlike a lot of teen books, this book makes it so abundantly clear that romance isn't everything, to which I can only say PREACH. I read this mostly digitally, but I wish I had a physical copy so that I could look at it on my shelf and immediately go back to that feeling of certainty and security this wonderful book gave me. 1000000/10, a must read for anyone who has questions or is just curious about this topic.