Synopsis:
It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean?
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.
As 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.
But 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. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.
Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?
Review:
Loveless was yet again a book I’ve been wanting to read for quite some time and I’m so happy to say that I loved it. Now, it’s definitely not a masterpiece, but it had so much heart and soul that it was pretty much a perfect read for me.
I wasn’t sure whether to rate this five stars or not but the more I thought about how happy it made me feel, it was a no-brainer. Well happy probably isn’t the right term because Loveless deals with a lot of heavy topics, but it was the ups and downs that made this such a great read.
As someone who doesn’t identify as aro-ace I can’t tell you whether this has great representation, but I do feel like if anyone read this and they didn’t know what that meant, they would after finishing it. It’s such a broad spectrum and I do feel like that is explained well, but again, I’m not aro-ace so I could be wrong.
I loved this cast of characters. Georgia definitely wasn’t my favourite, she was deeply flawed and she really did only care about herself at times, but she does get better. She did have a lot on her plate and I do feel like constantly questioning why you don’t feel like everyone else would make you a bit self-centred. It’s safe to say she has very intense feelings towards love and relationships and at times these opinions did become a bit much.
The Shakespeare Society was so fun and I loved hearing about the Durham uni experience (I actually work with Durham uni in my job, so that was a fun coincidence). I don’t know how true to real life it was as a lot of UK unis don’t have societies, but the freshers’ events and the ball were so much fun. The ball especially was very extravagant, I wish my uni did stuff like that when I was a student.
I can’t really explain why I enjoyed Loveless so much. It was a quick read with a lot of feeling and having a book make me feel something is the most important thing to me as a reader. A five-star rating is probably quite generous, but it’s one of those things I can’t explain.
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