Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.Īs she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, 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 when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. My YA book of the year.It was all sinking in. Everybody is interested in the subjects discussed here and to do so with a good story is brilliant. Some scenes are hilarious some down right embarrassing but always right on the nail. It is really addressing asexuality or aromanticism. I read this book in small chunks but it was compelling reading and I was sorry when it was finished. But the sexuality question gets well and truly in the way. All four characters form a Shakespeare club and plan to put on scenes from Shakespeare’s plays that are key scenes. She goes clubbing, mixes well, has sex because she likes it and is everything that Georgia wants to be.

While at University she is paired with a girl named Rooney in a flat. Georgia hopes that the questions about her sexuality will be answered at university. All three are off to Durham University and all three are into acting and drama especially Shakespeare.

She has two friends – Pip who is an attractive Latino girl who knows she is a lesbian and makes no bones about it, and Jason a shy boy who is attracted to Georgia but she doesn’t know it. She doesn’t know if she is gay or straight because she feels revulsion at any sexual contact at all and she is worried that she will never have a partner and love a normal life. She has never kissed anyone and is still a virgin. Georgia is 18 years old and has just finished High school. How do we know who we are attracted too? What is the spark that turns attraction into love? How important is sex and romance in peoples lives? Does everybody have erotic dreams? What happens if you don’t feel attracted to anybody? What if you don’t feel attracted to boys, girls, both or neither? This 430 page novel for high school students and young adults is about sexuality and romance.

Loveless alice oseman