Review: Heartstopper: Volume One

Jul 29, 2019

Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman

Published by Self-Published on October  2018
Genre: Graphi Novel
Pages: 288
Format: Online
Source: From Tapas
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

TW -Bullying
Goodreads Synopsis:

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...?

Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore, and he's sort of got a boyfriend, even if he's kind of mean and only wants to meet up in secret.

Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him. That is, until the start of January, in which Nick and Charlie are placed in the same form group and made to sit together.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...


From the author of Solitaire and Radio Silence comes a bind up of the first two chapters of Heartstopper, an ongoing webcomic




I did read this for free on the online web comics through Tapas. I started reading it as a fill in between my other books I am reading and actually really loved it. It is LBGT but the story is very soft and cute. You felt like you watching to school kids falling in love - which is what you are reading lol but the story was done very well. The art was very cute and very easy to read and follow.

So as soon as I finished Volume 1 (I think are chapters 1 &2)- I completed Volume 2 (I think are chapters 3). I am not sure how the volumes end on the web comics but I am caught up and waiting for next episode to be published in 3 days for Chapter 4 which is probably going to be Volume 3 when published. I may be wrong but I think that looks right. With out actually having the books in hand, I can't tell where the books end and start. I am thinking of ordering them so I can own them since they are very cute.

Okay now a little about this - we basically have a boy that is gay name Charlie and he meets Nick in school and they become best friends but they are basically fighting to keep their feeling hide. Such a cute book. I don't want to give much off. It is a fast read. Also - there are several Trigger Warnings - but since I have read this off Tapas - I am not sure what TW to post because I don't want to spoil up coming Volumes for those that have not read this yet. - but one of the biggest one is bullying.


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