{"id":12579,"date":"2022-04-14T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:49:43","slug":"l-is-loveless-dating-and-kissing-just-dont-appeal-to-her-by-alice-oseman-ya-book-review-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12579","title":{"rendered":"L is LOVELESS – dating and kissing just don’t appeal to her, by Alice Oseman (YA book review) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Never been kissed,
nor in a relationship –
maybe at college\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like everyone in her family, Georgia is a romantic about romance, the happily-ever-after forever kind. The British teen just doesn’t fancy anyone in that way, not even a celebrity crush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely she’ll find a relationship at university – she knows her best friends Jason and Pip will. It’s so weird to be living in different student housing across Durham instead of seeing them hours every day\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So with her new roommate Rooney, the 18-year-old tries to be brave and meet new people during Freshers Week as freshmen check out social societies to join on campus<\/a>. Their upper-class mentors (‘college parents’) help them adjust to university life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At her college parent Sunil’s urging, Georgia gets on the Pride Soc mailing list, then joins Rooney, Pip, and Jason in the not-quite-fully-registered Shakespeare Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pip goes with her to some Pride social nights, Jason decides to be more than friends with Georgia, and she’s still not sure how a handful of people will be able to perform a Shakespeare play so the society can become official with the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How will Pip react to Jason-and-Georgia as a new relationship?
Will Georgia find love or lose friendship there?
Asexual, aromantic<\/a> – maybe helpful words for her to consider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crisis in Shakespeare Society just before opening night pulls them together as Georgia’s first year at university is quite different than she envisioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When has found-family kept you going?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Loveless \/ Alice Oseman. Scholastic Press, 2021. [author Facebook<\/a>] [US publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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