The way Oseman dealt with the difficult subject matter throughout the series has been done amazingly and notably for me, within this book.

The book tells such a sweet story of innocent young love with all its shyness, embarrassment, humour and awkwardness and is incredibly relatable for anyone who is or ever has been a teenager with a crush. This special-edition hardback contains an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Alice was named the Attitude Person of the Year 2023, and The British Book Awards Illustrator of the Year.Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. If you arent in a good headspace or part of your mental health journey I do want to warn you to go into this one with the utmost caution. I am 78 and I found myself giggling at so many things in the books, also touched by the sad times as well. Alice's books have won, been shortlisted or nominated for a number of awards, including the YA Book Prize, the Inky Awards, the Carnegie Medal, and the Goodreads Choice Awards. Fourth in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between.

In their graphic form, the books are accessible to young readers, those to whom the books are aimed. Alice can usually be found staring aimlessly at computer screens, questioning the meaninglessness of existence, or doing anything and everything to avoid getting an office job. Now in gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic A VERY SPECIAL DAY, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of the Heartstopper series. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.It is such a refreshing reality to see a book with actual emotional intelligence represented to beautifully. Overall I could give this nothing less than 5/5 and I'm going to be counting down the days until volume 5 is released and until the Netflix adaptation hits the screen because I just need all the heartstopper in my life! Now in a gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie’s lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. It deals with young romance in a sensitive and age appropriate way, encouraging mutual respectful and unrushed, considerate behaviour within relationships.

Love often gets represented as an obsessive desperation that can plug any issue and solve anything (which it is); but Oseman, in her wholistic visual style, is revealing the slow and consuming fire that can burn in the corner of your room while you confront anything that comes at you(still intense and overpowering, but with proper boundaries and self-reinforcement). The relationships within this book were all both cute and wholesome but also well developed and held meaning and difficulties. As an older woman I feel Alice Osman has touched so many people and you don’t have to be gay to thoroughly enjoy them. This special-edition hardback contains an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, A VERY SPECIAL DAY, in black and white; beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover.The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of the HEARTSTOPPER series. She can usually be found staring aimlessly at computer screens, questioning the meaninglessness of existence, or doing anything she can to avoid getting an office job. Gripping reading with relevant and current themes for a preteen/teen but handled in a safe and cautious way.