Heartbreaker book review, by Kavya Chunduru

 Heartbreaker book review, 

by Kavya Chunduru

The book, “Heartbreaker” by Alice Oseman is about a highschooler, Charlie, and his best friend, Nick. Charlie is openly gay and Nick is not. Charlie has a crush on Nick, but he doesn’t think that Nick would return the feeling. One day, Charlie tells Nick about his feelings and Nick says that he likes him back. The main conflict in this book is Nick’s struggle with accepting himself as gay and trying to tell his friends.

I think that this book was a pretty good book. I think it's good because it brings the deep struggles that people in the LGBTQ community face. Nick talks about his homophobic friends and his struggle to tell them that he’s gay too. This book also talks about social pressure and how Nick’s friends think Charlie is weird. I think that these issues aren’t talked about enough and they deserve to be noticed. When reading this book, I had a lot of mixed feelings. I think that the author was trying to get the struggles of the LGBTQ community across but she skimmed over the topic. A more in depth reference of what Nick was feeling would have been good. She also could have included how Charlie was already bullied because he was gay. Other than that, she did a great job of showing Nick’s internal struggles when dating Charlie because he refused to tell the school that they were dating because he was embarrassed to be gay. I think that Charlie was a supportive boyfriend by giving Nick time to tell the school that they were together. At the end of the book, Nick comes out and tells the school. Overall, I would rate this book a ⅘  stars.