this book is everything to me.

this is a coming-out story about someone who’s aromatic asexual—aroace. i’m aroace spec.

i’ve never seen myself so well-represented in a book. everything Georgia went through—the fake crush on someone who was conveniently hot just to say you have a crush on someone, the feeling that once you got to uni everything would be different and better and you would grow up and do the whole romance shenanigans, the nauseating reaction to getting physically close to someone—that’s my life. i’ve been through all that. this book made me feel seen.

and on a literary level, this is an Alice Oseman book, so you know what to expect: lovely friendships, realistic writing, well-rounded characters.

it gets a bit repetitive halfway through, and some parts were a tad too soppy for my liking. like every coming-out book i’ve ever read, it can be preachy and predictable at times, but that’s to be expected, i guess. i wasn’t too troubled by it.

pick it up if you want to know more about the aroace spectrum. pick it up if you want a book about the importance of friendships. pick it up if you want a damn good story.