Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be DispatchedAlice Oseman 6 Books CollectionNick andA short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman’s acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – soon to be a major Netflix series. From the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless.ThisThe festive season isn't always happy for Tori Spring and her brother Charlie. And this year's going to be harder than most. I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now…RadioIn a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year. Will they have the courage to show everyone who they really are?I Was Born ForThe third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years.For Angel Rahimi life is about one The Ark a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm.
Alice Oseman is an award-winning author, illustrator, and screenwriter, and was born in 1994 in Kent, England. She has written four YA contemporary novels about teenage disasters: SOLITAIRE, RADIO SILENCE, I WAS BORN FOR THIS, and LOVELESS. She is the creator of LGBTQ+ YA romance webcomic HEARTSTOPPER, which is now published in physical form by Hachette Children's Books, and she is the writer, creator, and executive producer for the television adaptation of HEARTSTOPPER, which is set to be released on Netflix.
Alice’s first novel SOLITAIRE was published when she was nineteen. Her YA novels have been nominated for the YA Book Prize, the Inky Awards, the Carnegie Medal, and the Goodreads Choice Awards.
Alongside writing and drawing, Alice enjoys playing the piano semi-proficiently, Pokémon games, and purchasing too many Converse.
GR won't let me review Vol 6. It says it does not meet GR catalogue guidelines, even though there ar already close to 30k ratings. Not sure what the issue is, but I am posting my review for that volume here (and I have reviewed all the others under their titles). I am posting this review for Vol 6 here to get around the issue, so I have a record.
Awwww! I have arrived at the final Heartstopper volume. We have ridden alongside Charlie and Nick for years now, watching them turn into wonderful budding adult individuals and an adorable couple. In a real-world that gets meaner and more judgemental every day, Nick and Charlie and their friends and family are a ray of sunshine. Oseman's illustrations are wonderful too. I don't usually enjoy graphic novels - even when I do, I often feel like I would have liked them even more if they had just used text. That is not the case here. Oseman uses her artwork to convey feelings, fears, inner scripts; all the things that lurk inside and are generally unspoken. Speaking of things I don't generally enjoy, these books are YA, a genre I am delighted is there for younger readers, but which I find absurd. (I find them absurd because my heart is now a withered husk. This is a me problem, not a YA problem.) I had no issue with that here. I felt empathy not impatience, when reading about the big feelings that are the hallmark of teen life. Oseman's depictions, even the most dramatic of them, don't feel forced or OTT.
I am sorry to see the end of this series, but it ended in a great place, with Nick off to college and our boys addressing the challenges of holding together a relationship while living their lives in different places. Others in the friend group are doing things in different ways, and I liked that too. Even my cynical heart refuses to embrace any future other than an HEA for Nick and Charlie, but chances are pretty high that high-school relationships will not survive. Oseman addresses that, and is careful to celebrate how important these relationships are, even if they are fixed in time. That feels very true to me -- my relationships with my high school and college boyfriends were far more formative than later pairings, even than my marriage. Life is weird that way, and Oseman does a good job with that messaging. I look foward to seeing what she does next.
This review is going to be a bit long but oh well so first I read radio silence I didn’t enjoy it at first it felt a bit slow but I fell in love with it later on it made me realise thing about me I didn’t know yet I connected with all the characters in some way and I really enjoyed it so mutch it’s definitely my favourite out of all of Alice’s books!!! Solitare was magnificent so good it felt very nice to read like radio silence I wasn’t attached at the start but it got better I literally had to compromise with myself and said that I do a piece of homework and then read a page because I was really into it this winter and Nick and Charlie both was really good it was nice to read more about their feeling and stuff like that really good not my favourite but still pretty good I haven’t read loveless yet I am reading but I’m not hooked because I live romance books a lot and this is the opposite but I am going to keep reading and I have I was born for this I just am waiting to read it.
Alice Oseman once again produces absolute queer magic. Every single books tells a story that every inch of the queer community will relate to. It is so refreshing and beautiful to finally see an author displaying both the beauty and struggles of the queer experience so authentically, accurately and beautifully. My only complaint is that there’s not more books to read! My absolute favourite queer author without a doubt. 10/10 recommend Alice will never leave you disappointed and will always have you wanting more!
Solitaire was definitely my favourite from the series. I like how Alice understands and explains the pressures on teens and young adults to fit in and feel they have to label themselves to be a certain way which should not be the case at all they should be free to live their life and be happy and not have to behave a certain way or conform and that the labels are irrelevant they can be who they want to be there’s so much time for them to explore and discover naturally.
Literally anything Alice writes is beyond amazing and I get so sad whenever I fish a Alice book. My favourite is solitaire and my second favourite is this winter. The way she writes is beautiful and makes my insides feel warm. I love her and her work so so much. Her books got me into reading so I will always love her for that. Please read them if you haven’t.
For ‘Nick and Charlie’ I had to give it 5 stars! The book is about a gay couple that broke up, sadly Charlie was drunk when he said it so he was just joking. It ruined their relationship and they didn’t talk to each other for 2 weeks, which is a really long time! I would recommend this book to people that love gay romance.
loveless • loved how in depth the sexualities are explained • reality of how it feels to be queer • realistic conflicts everyone had their own struggles and confusions they need to settle • love is SUBJECTIVE and DOESN'T HAVE RULES PERIOD (unless it's immoral like abusive and toxic etc)
9/10 so good I love it so much solitare was by far my favourite I found it so comforting and I relate to tori so much and loveless comes in at a close second radio silence was absolutely amazing but I was kind of confused by the plot and I was born for this was good but not great