Loveless By Alice Oseman

Georgia Warr is about to graduate from High School. Georgia has been worried that at 18 never having had a romantic or physical relationship, let alone a first kiss, means that there must be something wrong with her, that she was behind everyone else and that she was still a child to them. She decides she has to kiss Tommy, a boy in her class. She has told people she has had a crush on for years.

She ends up finding Tommy, and they make small talk. He has heard that she has never been kissed; he decides he is going to kiss her., and she freaks out and pushes him because she likes nothing about being kissed. It makes her feel disgusted. She realizes that she never had a crush on Tommy. She just said she did because she felt pressured into saying that she had a crush on someone. Soon she will attend the same college as her friends Pip and Jason and is hoping for a fresh start there, but will it be the fresh start she wants/thinks she should have or the one she needs?
Read to discover what Georgia discovers. I have left this review purposely vague to avoid spoiling the book for others. This book is intended for a young adult audience and I think this would be a good book for someone in that age range still in that in between stage of their lives. I am older than the target audience but still found the way the author discusses society and its value on romantic verses physical relationships interesting and insightful, loved that the nuances of the LGBTQ Plus community are explored gender and levels of physical and romantic attraction for example.

My favorite book of 2022.