Hands Against Our Hearts

by Alice Oseman

Genres: Romance, LGBT, Audiobook, Young Adult, Short Stories, Novella, Contemporary

25 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2021

About the author

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.

Find Alice on Twitter and Instagram @AliceOseman.

Reviews

[janeee :D · Rating 3 out of 5]

so cute ☹️☹️

[♡ Angie ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pip and Rooney are so sweet and so gay and such an absolutely fucking mess! 🤣 I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!! 💗💗💗💗

[isaac⁷ · Rating 5 out of 5]

i didn't know there was an option to log this too but here i am.

this was a short story set in the loveless universe and it's at the back of the hardcover edition. i was randomly going through my bookshelves on a sunday afternoon and i noticed this (i hadn't all along and i call myself the biggest fan of the book lmao).

either way, pip and rooney are so deeply gay for each other, it shows and they try to hide it in this story but they fail and they would love chappell roan and literally every other sapphic artist.

[Erin Clements · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read in the back of the US version of Loveless.

More Pip and Roo forever please, thanks.

[vale garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

5⭐️

rep: sapphic (lesbian & pansexual)

okay, this is a short novella expanding on a scene on loveless about two side characters. i’d never read it before, honestly i don’t think i knew it even existed before, but this was in the audiobook so i got to listen to it and honestly? a cute short novella giving me more pip & rooney so i can’t complain. no notes, 10/10

[Zimmy W · Rating 5 out of 5]

They're so cute and dumb, I love them.

[Alyssa Burk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was at the end of my audio book. Pip is hilarious. Cute short story!

[Ireland · Rating 3 out of 5]

So sweet :( wish it was longer!

[Kryssy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hands Against Our Hearts
- Rooney and Pip POVs after their first kiss
- Awkwardness everywhere!!
- believe there is a possibility of falling in love
- Almost has sex. Pip is angry and humiliated at the same time. Fell for a straight but it felt different

[Samantha Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a nice little surprise after finishing loveless. Alice does a great job at character development and this is a great example of that. I pibe hearing about the other characters perspective really adds to the entire story.

[Alana · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sweet and confusing scene about Pip and Rooney from Loveless.

[Krys · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

[Bijuri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this short story in the back of the US edition of Loveless!

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

KSKS

[manuelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

🥹💘

[Alyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a cute short story to accompany Loveless. I think it was a nice bonus for the book. I thank the author for writing it.

[Juliana Riley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pip & Roo 🫶🏻

[Aisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars for the extra, short novella for Pip and Roo 🥰

[Lila · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love them SO BAD.

[Sky K]

Pip and Rooney have suddenly made me think of Kanga and Roo from Winnie the Pooh. Thoughts?

[Toddles · Rating 2 out of 5]

A scene in LOVELESS from POV of Pip and Rooney during the sleepover that we only heard about after Georgia woke up to the messages that Rooney was missing. It was ok...

[Constance Danilis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The only couple ever

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

A cute short story included in the hardcover version of loveless. The story dives a bit deeper into Pip and Rooney’s pre-relationship night together.

[Vanelis Diaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bro I thought this was a story about pip and Rooney afterwards the original book but no is about them in the night they kiss… Pero no importa estuvo bonito ☺️

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

3⭐️

[Johannes Leppitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute little short story situated in the lovely universe of Loveless. Although it would hardly work on its own, as it is, it is a nice little companion to the full work.

[Kathryn Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect thing. Having side characters so good you just have to give them their own story, well that's how you know you are a very good writer. As I have said Alice Oseman has my heart and that was further secured in this. It is just perfect 10/10.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a super cute short story that gave greater depth to the relationship that had developed in Loveless.  I liked reading from their perspectives and hearing more about their first kiss.  It was very cute.

[kristen tan · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 !
wonderful little bonus at the end of loveless
i <3 pip and rooney

reread: delightful i love pip and rooney

reread again: i am counting this bc i counted it the other times too and im 1 book behind on my goal 💔