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Beschreibung
Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting―working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with dating―no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.
But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!).
When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated―or understood.
Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more.
Praise for Let’s Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community:
“A sweet and beautiful journey about self-discovery and identity!” ―Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com
“There aren't many novels that have asexual characters and it's something people need more of.” ―Alice, reader on SwoonReads.com
“I want this on my shelf where I can admire it every day.” ―Kiara, reader on SwoonReads.com
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This book wasn’t necessarily bad but it wasn’t exactly good, either. I think there was a lack of a good and interesting plot. Feenie is a horrible best friend, I honestly couldn’t stand her. She’s engaged to Ryan and hated Takumi because she fears that he’s going to replace her as Alice’s best friend. I do love a good representation of a found family. However, Feenie seemed to be a little bitch about everything Alice did without her. I was also bored by Alice’s struggles with her family. For nearly 300 pages, a family member calls her and – most of the time – she ignores the call. Adding to that, I didn’t like the constant usage of a sentence in parenthesis. They weren’t necessary at all! I did, however, enjoy the diverse representation here and the library setting!
first of all - it‘s anazing to have a fun fluffy teen novel about a black biromantic asexual heroine! the book was diverse, really sweet and i could relate to it - sometimes. some things i didn‘t enjoy were, however: the flat characters, the instantly-swooning-over-a-guy (i know it‘s what the story is about, the way it was written is just not my thing.) also i think all those tv & internet references were thrown in to make it read young and cool and that seemed forced. still, i got very addicted to this and couldn‘t stop reading and that‘s why i guess i did like it. a bit.
Nettes Häppchen für zwischendurch, aber nur unter Einschränkung empfehlenswert.
Inhalt: Alice ist asexuell, da ist sie sich sicher. Als sie kurz nach ihrer Trennung jedoch den alles bisher sprengenden Talkumi kennenlernt, wird ihr Welt völlig auf den Kopf gestellt. Takumi bleibt aber nicht ihr einziges Problem. Über den Roman hinweg muss sie sich mit Druck der Familie, Konfliken mit den besten Freunden, Zukunftssorgen uvm. auseinandersetzen. Darin liegt schon ein großes Problem. Die fast zwanghaft sympathisch geschriebene Alice (klar, wir alle waren mal faul, haben nur Junck-food gegessen und wollten nichts als Netflix Experten werden *Ironie off*) setzt sich viel zu wenig mit all dem auseinander, was auf einprasselt. Verdrängen ist da das Stichwort, doch es wirkt eher so als würde sie ihre Probleme völlig vergessen. Sie bricht nicht weinend zusammen, weil sie ziemlich brutal verlassen wurde, nein, weil sie Takumi so extrem attraktiv findet (kein Scherz!) und später ist sie es, die den ersten Schritt zur Lösung des Konflikts mit ihrer besten Freundin machen muss. Die selbe beste Freundin, die kein Verständnis für Asexualität zeigt und deren problematische Aussagen bis zum Ende unkritisch im Raum bleiben. Allgemein wird viel viel zu wenig reflektiert und hinterfragt. Alice Innenleben bleibt oft ein Rätsel und ihre kindische, unreife Art macht die Identifikation nicht leichter. Wirklich stark sind die Konfliktszenen (z. B. erstes Kapitel, welche jedoch durch das eben angesprochene zu wenig Tragweite bekommen und zur Normalisierung toxischer Strukturen beitragen. Es liest sich locker, kann durchaus Spaß machen und bietet eine Perspektive (Asexualität), die sicher viele nicht kennen. Aber es eignet sich meiner Meinung nach besser als leicht ungewöhnlicher Young Adult Liebesroman, statt als lebendiger Einblick in Queerness und Ace Themen.
3.5 the asexual rep though... i know that not everyone experience asexuality like alice does. but i enjoyed this book and alice's journey nevertheless. also, i can't decide how i feel about takumi as a character, but he and alice as a couple were super cute. they didn't have communication issues, for once. as a panromantic asexual, i approve of this book.
It was short, cute and annoyed me. I really enjoyed Alice until I didn't and then I did again. We go along but she is a lot. Takumi was a total sweetheart. Absolutely adore him. Ryan was such a great friend and the therapist was all right. Feenie on the other hand I absolutely hated. And she was there a lot. Seriously if I was Alice I had ditched her. She was selfish and I don't even think she tried to understand Alice. She was constantly mad unless sth was about her.
I mean, the reason for wanting to read this book in the first place was the ace main character, because #relatable. Alice addresses a lot of concerns which will make you want to continue reading and find out how things work out for her, even if this particular style of writing is not for you (it's honestly not my cup of tea either). It was an easy, swift read, although towards the end I had to go back and reread a dialogue here and there. I usually just breeze through those (she likes him, check! he likes her, check!), but here I wanted to absorb every single word as the characters opened up to each other.
Beschreibung
Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting―working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with dating―no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.
But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!).
When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated―or understood.
Claire Kann’s debut novel Let’s Talk About Love, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, gracefully explores the struggle with emerging adulthood and the complicated line between friendship and what it might mean to be something more.
Praise for Let’s Talk About Love from the Swoon Reads community:
“A sweet and beautiful journey about self-discovery and identity!” ―Macy Filia, reader on SwoonReads.com
“There aren't many novels that have asexual characters and it's something people need more of.” ―Alice, reader on SwoonReads.com
“I want this on my shelf where I can admire it every day.” ―Kiara, reader on SwoonReads.com
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
This book wasn’t necessarily bad but it wasn’t exactly good, either. I think there was a lack of a good and interesting plot. Feenie is a horrible best friend, I honestly couldn’t stand her. She’s engaged to Ryan and hated Takumi because she fears that he’s going to replace her as Alice’s best friend. I do love a good representation of a found family. However, Feenie seemed to be a little bitch about everything Alice did without her. I was also bored by Alice’s struggles with her family. For nearly 300 pages, a family member calls her and – most of the time – she ignores the call. Adding to that, I didn’t like the constant usage of a sentence in parenthesis. They weren’t necessary at all! I did, however, enjoy the diverse representation here and the library setting!
first of all - it‘s anazing to have a fun fluffy teen novel about a black biromantic asexual heroine! the book was diverse, really sweet and i could relate to it - sometimes. some things i didn‘t enjoy were, however: the flat characters, the instantly-swooning-over-a-guy (i know it‘s what the story is about, the way it was written is just not my thing.) also i think all those tv & internet references were thrown in to make it read young and cool and that seemed forced. still, i got very addicted to this and couldn‘t stop reading and that‘s why i guess i did like it. a bit.
Nettes Häppchen für zwischendurch, aber nur unter Einschränkung empfehlenswert.
Inhalt: Alice ist asexuell, da ist sie sich sicher. Als sie kurz nach ihrer Trennung jedoch den alles bisher sprengenden Talkumi kennenlernt, wird ihr Welt völlig auf den Kopf gestellt. Takumi bleibt aber nicht ihr einziges Problem. Über den Roman hinweg muss sie sich mit Druck der Familie, Konfliken mit den besten Freunden, Zukunftssorgen uvm. auseinandersetzen. Darin liegt schon ein großes Problem. Die fast zwanghaft sympathisch geschriebene Alice (klar, wir alle waren mal faul, haben nur Junck-food gegessen und wollten nichts als Netflix Experten werden *Ironie off*) setzt sich viel zu wenig mit all dem auseinander, was auf einprasselt. Verdrängen ist da das Stichwort, doch es wirkt eher so als würde sie ihre Probleme völlig vergessen. Sie bricht nicht weinend zusammen, weil sie ziemlich brutal verlassen wurde, nein, weil sie Takumi so extrem attraktiv findet (kein Scherz!) und später ist sie es, die den ersten Schritt zur Lösung des Konflikts mit ihrer besten Freundin machen muss. Die selbe beste Freundin, die kein Verständnis für Asexualität zeigt und deren problematische Aussagen bis zum Ende unkritisch im Raum bleiben. Allgemein wird viel viel zu wenig reflektiert und hinterfragt. Alice Innenleben bleibt oft ein Rätsel und ihre kindische, unreife Art macht die Identifikation nicht leichter. Wirklich stark sind die Konfliktszenen (z. B. erstes Kapitel, welche jedoch durch das eben angesprochene zu wenig Tragweite bekommen und zur Normalisierung toxischer Strukturen beitragen. Es liest sich locker, kann durchaus Spaß machen und bietet eine Perspektive (Asexualität), die sicher viele nicht kennen. Aber es eignet sich meiner Meinung nach besser als leicht ungewöhnlicher Young Adult Liebesroman, statt als lebendiger Einblick in Queerness und Ace Themen.
3.5 the asexual rep though... i know that not everyone experience asexuality like alice does. but i enjoyed this book and alice's journey nevertheless. also, i can't decide how i feel about takumi as a character, but he and alice as a couple were super cute. they didn't have communication issues, for once. as a panromantic asexual, i approve of this book.
It was short, cute and annoyed me. I really enjoyed Alice until I didn't and then I did again. We go along but she is a lot. Takumi was a total sweetheart. Absolutely adore him. Ryan was such a great friend and the therapist was all right. Feenie on the other hand I absolutely hated. And she was there a lot. Seriously if I was Alice I had ditched her. She was selfish and I don't even think she tried to understand Alice. She was constantly mad unless sth was about her.
I mean, the reason for wanting to read this book in the first place was the ace main character, because #relatable. Alice addresses a lot of concerns which will make you want to continue reading and find out how things work out for her, even if this particular style of writing is not for you (it's honestly not my cup of tea either). It was an easy, swift read, although towards the end I had to go back and reread a dialogue here and there. I usually just breeze through those (she likes him, check! he likes her, check!), but here I wanted to absorb every single word as the characters opened up to each other.