Heartstopper: Volume One
Ratings505
Average rating4.4
I am a gay man in my 40s who grew up as a child and teenager in a small Conservative town. Growing up in that toxic environment as a gay boy was very difficult. You couldn't come out for the risk of rejection and violence from multiple sources.
Although I kind of knew I was gay at a very young age, it was made absolutely clear when I developed a mad crush on a boy in High School. That didn't develop into anything. He was straight, of course.
I wanted to watch the Netflix series, but not before I read the original source material. I love these feel-good coming of age (and coming out) LGBTQ love stories because I think back to that crush and wish I was able to experience that when I was a boy. To just... be. I lost so much of my life because I couldn't do that.
It is nice to see that the current young generations are in a much more accepting society of fluid sexualities and genders. That's not to say that it's not bad in a lot of areas, but it is drastically better than when I was a boy.
This graphic novel perfectly captures that young love.
It's a really cute story of two teenagers who just fall in love. The art is great and you just zoom through it. I think I read this in an hour. It was sometimes hard to tell who was who, luckily it does say the name of the character with some context sometimes.
This is the cutest story EVER! I loved every page of this. Charlie and Nick are so sweet.
Can't wait to read the next volumes!
Oseman handles so many things in this series in a really thoughtful way. Very healthy relationships and very swoony.
It's been a hot minute since I've read a graphic novel but reading this book just filled my heart with happiness. I loved Nick and Charlie's friendship and how it progresses. I love how in so few words and graphics so many emotions can be conveyed. Simply beautiful. Cannot wait to do the other in the series.
I watched the series before reading so I know what will happen, and all i gotta say is the casting and acting is perfect!
Heartstopper est d'abord un webcomic, une série de comics, publié sur Internet depuis 2016 et que l'on doit à la britannique Alice Oseman. Un premier volume a été compilé à partir des premiers chapitres, ce qui donne tout de même un album de près de 300 pages, publié début février 2019.
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between – for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. ‘The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' Gay TimesThis is the first volume of Heartstopper, with more to come.
mu cute pero se me hizo demasiado corto.
Ya lo he leído 5 veces, no se nota mi obsesión
Oops i did it again.
10/05/2022
Por fin me lo he leído en físico.
Simple and relatively sweet, will definitely be an easy sell for teens, and as an added bonus, they'll learn some British slang too. I liked the chill simplicity of Oseman's black/grey/green color palette. I do wish that the romance didn't hinge on Nick rescuing Charlie from relationship violence, with that violence repeating over and over again.
do i even need to explain myself? let my reading updates speak for themselves. bye i acc love this graphic novel so fucking mcuh bro i love them and their relationship and the little things and its just so wholesome and i just want to engulf both of them into such a big ass hug cos i love them both so much, bye. alice oseman, you're a literary genius to me idc this is the BEST.
Cute but that's all. Artwork's amateurish and this feeling is compounded by the labeling of characters (readers should be able to tell people apart visually and who they are based on context). TV series def better entertainment.
And now I have a toothache.
No but seriously, this is every bit as disgustingly cute as everyone says it is. It'll make you smile and feel all sorts of happy for the boys and their burgeoning romance.
It doesn't have any real plot or story arc like you'd expect in a traditional graphic novel, and I'd probably knock off an extra star if I didn't know this was originally a web comic. I'm not personally a fan of the art style.
It's cute. It's sweet. The main characters are stereotypes but written to be extremely likeable. I'll definitely continue on with the series the next time I need to thaw my cold heart.
4/5 stars
This was literally adorable! I love the interactions between the two main characters. I also like the things they are both dealing with related to their sexuality. It makes it seem a lot more realistic and less perfect.
It's a lovely, wholesome story and I'm happy it exists. I prefer the live adaptation, it's so well done but still glad I bought and read the series as well though.
This is so cuute
This story and art is so cuuute. It makes my heart happy. Protect Nick and Charlie and Nellie. I will be continuing the series