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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Alice Oseman on being aromantic asexual". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 June 2020 . Retrieved 4 June 2022. This story is also about friendships made on the internet. To meet their idols and go to one of their concerts, Angel and her online friend Juliet decide to meet for the first time in real life and spend the week together at Juliet’s grandma’s house. It’s both of them realising people aren’t necessarily the same on internet or irl, and it’s okay, because some of people are way more confident on the internet and shy when they have to talk to someone face to face. 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.

You know when your favourite writer comes up with a new book, you always get both excited and terrified, because what if this book isn’t what you had expected it to be? But then it turns out even better. Because of course it’s better than expected, your favourite writer wrote it. I think Alice Oseman is brillant. I think her books are out of this world. And I cannot wait to read all the books she will write in the future, because if there is one author I deeply trust, it’s her. It’s another real and touching read from Alice Oseman who keeps on hitting the mark on every occasion. She reflects on important points for our generations who often feel unheard by our elders and she understands us. She listens to us. She creates characters who look, and act, and think, and feel like us. It’s refreshing and at haunting at the same time. Your signature challenge this week,” begins Sandi, and then she lays out what’s about to happen – we have to prepare a Victoria sponge.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.” Jimmy's voice actor is amazing. I loved listening to him, to the rise and fall of his voice. Angel's voice actor is great too, but she really has to work on doing German accents. As a German myself, I know what our accent sounds like, and the version in the audiobook was nothing like it. What really set me off, was her rendering of Mac's voice though. God, he is an annoying person, but listening to the way he talked made me consider fast-forwarding the audiobook. Angel’s internet friend, Juliet, took a while to grow on me, but is human as can be - and for that reason I liked her. What, like having sex and smoking?” Jimmy grumbles, and it throws me for a second, remembering that that’s what they actually think my favourite hobbies are. The characters in this book are so diverse and that was probably my favorite thing about this book. We have Angel as the main character, she is Muslim, she is Hijabi and she is one of the biggest fans of a boy band. Angel may have the best Muslim representation I ever read! I read other Muslim characters by Muslim authors and I was disappointed because the authors tried so hard and ruined the rep! Angel however, was so easy to read and so humane! The author did not need to remind us of her being a Muslim constantly, the character was just a normal person living a normal life, she does her prayers and she did not want a guy to see her without a Hijab, but other than that she was just an ordinary person and Muslims are like that. We are normal people who read, who sing, who dance and who fanboys over bands! Only a small portion of us are extremists and there are people like them in all religions!

Not only are the main characters far from cis/straight/white but so is most of this book's cast. Let's start with Angel and Jimmy. 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! On 20 May 2022, Netflix announced that the series was being recommissioned for a second and third season. [30]

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BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 23 November 2023 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. But maybe there’s some value in slice of life - when it comes down to it, this is a book about being okay with not being okay. None of these characters end the book feeling totally okay, but they ended this book just a little better, and there’s something rather valuable.

The author clearly doesn't approve of it. The whole story is based on it not being okay. Angel stops at once when she realizes that it's not going to be "canon" ever. I don't want to go into many details because spoilers. Juliet Schwartz - Eighteen and Angel’s best friend that she was introduced to on the internet and is meeting for the first time to see The Ark together. That feeling when you realise you have disgustingly romantic feelings for your best friend and then spend the rest of your night in an anxiety spiral Language: English Words: 1,324 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Kudos: 17 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 146Let 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.