Heartstopper: Volume 5

1.5/5 ⭐
A dumpster fire by all accounts. It was so hard to get my grubby hands on this book. And it really let me down. It felt like nothing really happened. The characters felt kind of hollow. I get that she was busy working on the show but it really showed in this book. The conflicts were built up for the whole book but got resolved way too easily at the end. It was anti-climactic. Examples include Charlie's eating disorder and not wanting to be intimate with Nick but then Nick says that he thinks Charlie's hot and suddenly he's ok. Also the whole long-distance college selection thing. Also I get that she's trying to push messages about safe sex, “virginity is a construct”, and consent but the way it was delivered just felt like a weird PSA, health class type of thing that I didn't like. Although I did love some ace rep.