Thursday, September 23, 2021

Loveless by Alice Oseman - NO

Loveless by Alice Oseman
, 393 pages. Scholastic Press, 2021. $13

 Language: R (65 swears, 40‘f’); Mature Content: R (The main plot is revolved around sex, making out and sexuality/attraction. Talks and jokes about sex and teen sex.); Violence: G 

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - NOT RECOMMENDED 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW 

Georgia is a little confused. She's just graduated high school and yet she's never kissed anyone before. Is it her too high of standards? Or maybe the fact she doesn't like to party?I mean everyone in her grade has at least been kissed before, so what's her problem? As she goes into college with her two best friends she makes a vow to try harder in the romantic industry and hopefully get someone to kiss her. 

 Loveless tries to be funny, cool and relatable and falls flat on it's face with all three. I thought it played way into the quiet theater girl cliche way too much and just all the high school tropes rolled into one. I found the writing to be really just boring. There isn't an ounce of excitement or creativity in the author's words and she uses the same ones over and over again. I thought the plot relied heavily on the whole "she hasn't been kissed" before and it just got overused. 

 Kenzie Hoehne Student Reviewer 

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