4.5 / 5 ~ Loveless is a book that I wish I'd had a few years ago, when I was in university, going through similar thoughts, similar worries.
I know that it will be treasured by teens, young adults and people of all ages who are still questioning who are they are or who want to see themselves in books, in a way that they rarely have before.

Loveless is about a girl coming to terms with the fact that she is aromantic asexual.
It's about her accepting that she isn't weird, that she IS worthy of love, and that that love can be found in other aspects of life : in friendships for example.
It's about a gang of university students who find a family in each other, through a Shakespeare theatre group and your usual uni shenanigans.

All of those elements speak to my soul in ways I cannot even begin to express.
I say this in every Alice Oseman book review, but this time more than ever: Alice Oseman GETS IT. She gets me. She gets what it's like to be a queer young adult that is a little lost but gets through with the help of friends.
And my heart is platonically in love with Alice's work.

On a personal level, I would have prefered some elements of this story to be done in a different way

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(I wanted more Pip & Georgia platonic soulmates, but that aspect fell onto another character, whose friendship is much newer and just a little less believable for me; + a strong ressemblance to Radio Silence on a lot of levels, but especially the final "big scare")

. But you can't love absolutely everything, and the good completely outweights the less good.

I didn't find this book "too informative" or dictionary-like as I've seen some people say.
It goes through essential elements that are needed to understand aromanticism and asexuality. Knowing those two identities pretty well, i can tell you Alice added just enough info about it to make it perfectly understandable, without it being too info-dumpy. All that was said was absolutely needed, and perfectly expressed. Lots of other things were going on beyond just understanding what being aro ace means.

Despite small elements i didn't like as much as i wanted to, I ended up crying. Just because this book spoke to my soul on so many levels. And i cannot wait to see people finding comfort in these characters and words.