A rare sight of me reading my first book in... years, but yeah
Loveless by alice oseman
Backstory : my gay friend and some straight karen were debating Heartstopper in a discord server, the karen was saying that gay books shouldn’t focus on gay people... being gay 🤦 and that they should have good storyline without focusing on a character being gay... because... gayness can't be a personality trait? Or whatever. 🤦🤦 But anyway, I never read heartstopper but the claim above ^ really got to me so I also joined the debate. Eventually I started explaining how reading aroace media and tropes, as an aroace, makes me feel understood and happy ( to make a parallel that obviously, a gay guy would gay media, because hes the targer audience ) but the karen wasnt having it. anyway, thats when the friend in question, whos a real bookworm, recommended Loveless to me, saying I will like it.
Reading it right now, I can tell you this is the most aro book to ever exist