I WAS BORN FOR THIS: TikTok made me buy it! From the YA Prize winning author and creator of Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER

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Now Jimmy is my precious son, I can go to lengths to protect him, dare say anything about him and I will break your teeth. I wander over to Jimmy’s table and lean on it, watching the scene unfold. Jimmy is also kneading his dough – but it looks kind of flaky and keeps breaking apart. You are.” I swallow nervously. “If you want it to end ... I understand.” I pat my chest. “But ... I guess ... you’re ending a part of me too.” Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times. I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”

When I win the technical challenge, I hear Rowan make a soft ‘hm’ noise. A very disappointed Rowan hum.

I confirm to him that he definitely, without a doubt, could not look less like JoJo Siwa. He actually looks hot, in his usual Jimmy way with his soft hair and big brown eyes. The relationships between everyone were brilliant and not sugar-coated at any times. From Juliet and Angel, meeting for the first time after being internet friends for so long, to Jimmy and his friends and, well, colleagues from the boys-band Rowan and Lister, to Jimmy and his adorable relationship with his grandfather. I just loved everything about it. OVERALL I can't put my finger on exactly why, despite all the elements I usually dislike reading, I so thoroughly enjoyed this book. Maybe it was the characters, who all felt so real and flawed. Maybe it was the relationship dynamics between everyone involved- complicated and messy. Maybe it was the diversity that made this seemingly unexceptional book, well, exceptional.

His bandmates, Rowan and Lister, are just as compelling - Rowan is biracial and Nigerian and dealing with a hidden relationship, and Lister is dealing with alcoholism and depression. Oh, and his speech about the perception of his bisexuality by others is incredible. The long answer: I write my books as if they are taking place in the present at the time that I am writing them. This obviously doesn’t technically work in the timeline of the books, because I wrote Heartstopper long after I wrote Solitaire, even though Heartstopper takes place before Solitaire!Solitaire was a good young adult novel. It was endearing and it really did come close to being a sort of Catcher In The Rye for the Digital Age, as the endlessly reiterated review quote goes. It was fresh (by which I mean to say naive in the best possible way, as was John Green's Looking for Alaska), it had lovely characters and the story was alright. Young adult novels are best judged superficially.

Normally I’d make a joke and say yes. I could say something about how his jeans sent the fans into a frenzy and us laying down on the floor together was a metaphor for our friendship, or the fact that there’d be a thousand fanfics written about the way he ran over to Rowan by the bin.

Everyone's normal, everyone's weird, everyone's just trying to deal with their own life and keep calm and carry on. And hold on to something that'll keep them going. That's why people get into fandom and bands and stuff. They just want to hold on to something that makes them feel good. Even if it's all a big lie." While promoting Loveless, Oseman opened up about being aromantic asexual. [32] Oseman uses she/her and they/them pronouns. [33] Oseman announced that she was going on hiatus from Heartstopper in 2022 due to stress and mental health issues. [34] Bibliography [ edit ]

We had a free evening and got to watch it live. Well, Jimmy didn’t actually watch it – he mostly peeked at it from behind a cushion – and I did get hungry halfway through because of the pork pies and went to the kitchen to heat up last night’s leftover Chinese. When I accidentally cut my right middle finger fifteen minutes later, the first aid people actually look quite annoyed, and Rowan insists on doing the plaster for them. Let it be known that going on Celebrity Bake Off was absolutely Rowan’s idea, not mine or Jimmy’s, so when Rowan inevitably has a meltdown halfway through trying to make puff pastry, he only has himself to blame. Neither of us have any friends in real life who like The Ark, but that doesn’t matter, because we have each other. I used to try to get people to talk about The Ark with me – my school friends, my parents, my older brother – but no one really cared.There is also Jimmy, A gay trans guy who is like the main boy in the band, it was also good to read a representation of this kind that was well done! He also suffers from Anxiety and as someone who lives with anxiety, I could relate to that. My point is that there was so much diversity in the book but it never felt like it was forced and it rather fits perfectly into a real life mold. The idea of maybe giving as much love to their own selves as they give to the fandom. Love thyself.