It works very well as a setting for a book, providing a discrete period in which to experience Alice’s life, as she’s on the brink of so many changes. Her hyper-successful family are pushing her to make a decision about her major, and she’s living with her best friends whilst working at the library to earn some money. We follow Alice, the main character, through a summer between college years. It came out only earlier this year, and although it didn’t quite work for me, I think it has a lot of things going for it. Let’s Talk About Love is another of the books I came to in my reading of books with asexual main characters. 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. Alice is done with dating–no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.īut 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!).
The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she’s asexual).
Non-stop 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. Let’s Talk about Love is a contemporary queer YA novel, published by Swoon Reads, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, and was released in the UK in January 2018īelow is the Goodreads synopsis of the book:Īlice had her whole summer planned. I borrowed the ebook of Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann from the library.