You can just tell that this book was written from a place of sincerity and experience because it just feels so authentic, right from the beginning. The only other book I can think of (that I've read personally) that deals so well with asexuality is Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann. These are marketed as YA, but they are about characters in college, so I think they'd fall more in the New Adult category.

Anyway! I've determined that Alice Oseman is probably the queen of writing characters. She writes these little found families that you absolutely want to be a part of. The characters just leap off the page, and their relationships change and grow throughout. One of my favorite relationships was probably between Georgia and Rooney. They both need each other to help figure out their own identities, and the way they grew throughout the book was just so relatable. 

Outside of the characters, the discussions about friendships being just as important as romantic relationships were all spot on. Too often, media and society in general makes us think that if people aren't in a romantic relationship that they're somehow worth less than everyone who is. Loveless puts friendship on the same level as romance, and we definitely love to see it.

This is only the second novel that I've read by Oseman (outside of Heartstopper), and I absolutely can't wait to get to her other books, just for her characters alone. As someone who reads for character more than anything else, that alone will make me return to Oseman as an author again and again.