Charlie, you're an average 17 year old boy with a nice but average boyfriend, living in a nice, average house, wearing a nice, average school uniform who likes to do nothing all day but cuddle and hang out. Oh and one more thing - if I have to hear one more time about how weird Nick and Charlie think they are, I might have to scream. So while I admire the cute repackaging, I can't oversee the dollar/pound signs twinkling in the publisher's eyes. This means that a novella of 80 pages was turned into a novel with huge spacing and a large font plus a few pages of doodles and Heartstopper-style comic pages (which I loved, don't get me wrong).

The other reason is that while I love how popular and successful Alice is as a writer and artist, we have entered the phase when the publisher has realised they can make a lot of money with very little content. While on the one hand I'm all for sex positivity, I'd have preferred it if there were no post-sex images of shirtless Nick & Charlie cuddling in bed for all the world to swoon over. The first being that I can't help but feel like there's an element of fetishisation in this novella and I'm not 100% percent able to stay unbothered by it. Suffice it to say, I loved it.įive years later and I still really enjoyed it but I'm feeling a little different towards it, for two reasons. There was no Heartstopper: Volume One then. I first read this book in 2015 just after finishing Alice's debut novel Solitaire because I needed more Nick and Charlie in my life. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever… Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’, for God’s sake!īut as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. But that’s fine with us.”Įveryone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. Sit in the same room on different laptops. NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. CHARLIE: “I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years.

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