{"id":16955,"date":"2022-02-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2022-02-27T21:47:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T02:47:42","slug":"blog-tour-loveless-by-alice-oseman-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-loveless-by-alice-oseman-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Loveless by Alice Oseman (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarbooktours.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/loveless-tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Loveless by Alice Oseman (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for LOVELESS by Alice Oseman! I\u2019m so excited to share an excerpt of the book with you today, AND more information about the author and tour, PLUS you can enter the giveaway to win a print copy!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-tiger-honor-by-yoon-ha-lee-excerpt-giveaway\/#more-16142\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/loveless-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: Loveless by Alice Oseman (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: Loveless by Alice Oseman (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>Loveless<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/alice-oseman\/\">Alice Oseman<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  March 1, 2022 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/scholastic-press\/\">Scholastic Press<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/contemporary\/\">Contemporary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/aspec\/\">Aspec<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 432 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/55977956-loveless\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliceoseman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliceOseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuthorAliceOseman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7789423.Alice_Oseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LYgpRX\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aliceoseman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aliceoseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">TikTok<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum -- coming to understand herself as asexual\/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy -- there are many mistakes along the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known part of your identity. But Georgia's determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2022-02-28T10:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\nHappy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for LOVELESS by Alice Oseman! 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I don\u2019t go to parties very often. I hadn\u2019t been aware this actually was the culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I retreated from the fire pit and headed back towards Hattie Jorgensen\u2019s giant country house, holding up my prom dress in one hand so&nbsp;I didn\u2019t trip, and dropped Pip a message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Georgia Warr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i could not approach the fire and retrieve the marshmallows because there were people kissing around it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Felipa Quintana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How could you betray and disappoint me like this Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Georgia Warr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>do you still love me or is&nbsp;this the end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;I&nbsp;entered&nbsp;the&nbsp;kitchen&nbsp;and&nbsp;located&nbsp;Pip,&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;leaning&nbsp;against&nbsp;a corner cupboard with a plastic cup full of wine in one hand and her phone in the other. Her tie was half tucked into her shirt pocket, her burgundy velvet blazer was now unbuttoned, and her short curls were fluffy and loose, no doubt due to all the dancing at prom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou OK?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMight be&nbsp;a tad drunk,\u201d she said, her tortoiseshell glasses slipping down her nose. \u201cAnd also Ido&nbsp;fucking love you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore than marshmallows?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow could you ask me to make such a choice?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I slung my arm round&nbsp;her shoulders and we leaned back together against the kitchen cupboards. It was almost midnight, music was thumping fromHattie\u2019s living&nbsp;room, and the sound of our classmates chatting and laughing and shouting and screaming resonated from every corner of the&nbsp;building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were three separate couples making out around the fire,\u201d I said.\u201cLike, in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKinky,\u201d said Pip.\u201cI sort of wished I was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She gave me a look. \u201c<em>Ew<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI just want to kiss someone,\u201d I said, which was odd, because I wasn\u2019t even drunk. I was driving Pip and Jason home later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can make out if you want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t what I had in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, Jason\u2019s been single for a few months now. I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShut up. I\u2019m serious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was&nbsp;serious. I really, really wanted to kiss someone. I wanted to feel a little bit of prom-night magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTommy, then,\u201d said Pip, raising an eyebrow and smiling evilly. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s time to confess.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d only ever had a crush on one person. His name was Tommy. He was&nbsp;the \u201chot boy\u201d of our school year\u2014the one who could actually have been a model if he\u2019d wanted. He was tall and skinny and conventionally attractive in a Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet sort of way, though I didn\u2019t really understand why everyone was in love with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. I had a theory that a lot of people\u2019s \u201ccelebrity crushes\u201d were faked just to fit in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy had been my crush ever since I was in Year 7 and a girl had asked me, \u201cWho d\u2019you think is the hottest boy at Truham?\u201d She\u2019d shown me a photoon her phone of a group of the most popular Year 7 boys at the boys\u2019 grammar over the road, and there was Tommy right in the middle. I could tell he was the most attractive one\u2014I mean, he had hair like a boy-band star and was dressed pretty fashionably\u2014so I\u2019d pointed and said him. And I guess that was that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost seven years later, I\u2019d never actually talked to Tommy. I\u2019d never even really wanted&nbsp;&nbsp;to, probably because I was shy. He was more of an abstract concept\u2014he was hot, and he was&nbsp;my crush, and nothing was going to happen between us, and I was perfectly fine with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I snorted at Pip. \u201cObviously not Tommy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy not? You like him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thought of actually following through on the crush made me feel extremely nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just shrugged at Pip, and she dropped the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip and I started to walk out of the kitchen, arms still slung round each other, and into the hallway of Hattie Jorgensen\u2019s fancy country home. People were slumped on the floor in the corridor in their prom dresses and tuxes, cups and food scattered around. Two people were kissing on the stairs, and I looked at them for a moment, unsure whether it was disgusting or whether it was the most romantic thing I\u2019d ever&nbsp;seen in my life. Probably the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know what I want?\u201d Pip said as we stumbled into Hattie\u2019s conservatory and collapsed onto a sofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d I said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want someone to spontaneously perform a song to declare their love for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat song?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She gave this some thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour&nbsp;Song&nbsp;from <em>Moulin Rouge<\/em>.\u201d She sighed. \u201cGod, I am sad, gay, and alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSolid song choice, but not as attainable as a kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip rolled her eyes. \u201cIf you want to kiss someone that much, just go talk to Tommy. You\u2019ve liked him for seven years. This is your last chance before we go to uni.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She might have had a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it was going to be anyone, it was going to be Tommy. But the idea filled me with dread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I folded my arms. \u201cMaybe I could kiss a stranger instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFuck off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m <em>serious<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo, you\u2019re not. You\u2019re not like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know what I\u2019m like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, I do,\u201d said Pip. \u201cI know you more than anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was right. About knowing me and about me not being like that and about tonight being my last chance to confess the crush I\u2019d had for seven years, and the last chance to kiss someone while I was still a schoolkid, while I had a chance to feel the teenage-dream excitement and youthful magic that everyone else seemed to have had a little taste of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was my last chance to feel that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So maybe I would have to bite the bullet and kiss Tommy after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Romance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved romance. Always had. I loved Disney (especially the underappreciated masterpiece that is <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>). I loved fanfiction (even fanfics for characters I knew nothing about, but Draco\/Harry or Korra\/Asami were my comfort reads). I loved thinking about what my own wedding would be like (a barn wedding, with autumn leaves and berries, fairy lights and candles, my dress\u2014lacy and vintage-looking, my soon-to-be-spouse crying, my family crying, me crying because I\u2019m so, so happy, just, so happy that I have found <em>the one<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just. Loved. <em>Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew it was soppy. But I wasn\u2019t a cynic. I was a dreamer, maybe, who liked to yearn and believed in the magic of love. Like the main guy from <em>Moulin Rouge<\/em>, who runs away to Paris to write stories about truth, freedom, beauty, and love, even though he should probably be thinking about getting a job so he can&nbsp;actually afford to buy food.&nbsp;Yeah. Definitely me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I probably got this from my family. The Warrs believed in&nbsp;<em>forever love<\/em>\u2014&nbsp;my parents were just as in love now as they were back in 1991 when my mum was a ballet teacher and my dad was in a band. I\u2019m not even joking.They were literally the plot of Avril Lavigne\u2019s \u201cSk8er Boi,\u201d but with a happy ending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sets of my grandparents were still together. My brother married his girlfriend when he was twenty-two. None of my close relatives had been divorced. Even most of my older cousins had at least partners, if not whole families of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn\u2019t ever been in a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t even kissed anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason kissed Karishma from my history class on his Duke of Edinburgh expedition and dated a horrible girl called Aimee for a few months until he realized she was a knob. Pip Kissed Millie from the Academy at a house party and also Nicola from our youth theatre group at the dress rehearsal for <em>Dracula<\/em>. Most people had a story like that- a silly kiss with someone they sort of had a crush on, or didn\u2019t really, and it didn\u2019t necessarily go anywhere, but that was part of being a teenager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people aged eighteen have kissed someone. Most people aged eighteen have had at least one crush, even if it\u2019s on a celebrity. At least half of everyone I knew had actually had sex, although some of those people were probably lying, or they were just referring to a really terrible hand job or touching a boob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it didn\u2019t bother me, because I knew my time would come. It did for everyone. <em>You\u2019ll find someone eventually-<\/em> that was what everyone said, and they were right. Teen romances only worked out in movies anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I had to do was wait,&nbsp; and my big love story would come. I would find<em> the one.<\/em> We would fall in love. And I\u2019d get my happily ever after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pip, Jason, and Me<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGeorgia has to kiss Tommy,\u201d Pip said to Jason as we slumped down next to him on a sofa in Hattie\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason, who was in the middle of a game of Scrabble on his phone, frowned at me. \u201cCan I ask why?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s been seven years and I think it\u2019s time,\u201d said Pip. \u201cThoughts?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason Farley-Shaw was our best friend. We were kind of a trio. Pip and I went to the same all-girls school and met Jason through the annual school plays, where they\u2019d always get a few of the boys from the boys\u2019 school to join in, then after a couple of years he joined our school, which was mixed in the sixth form, and joined our youth theatre group too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what production we put on, whether it was a musical or a play, Jason usually played essentially the same role: a stern older man. This was mostly because he was tall and broad, but also because, at first glance, he did give off a bit of a strict dad vibe. He\u2019d been Javert in <em>Les Mis<\/em>, Prospero in <em>The Tempest,<\/em> and the angry father, George Banks, in <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, Pip and I had quickly learned that underneath his stern exterior, Jason was a very gentle, chilled out dude who seemed to enjoy our company more than anyone else\u2019s. With Pip being a harbinger of chaos and my tendency to feel worried and awkward about pretty much everything, Jason\u2019s calmness balanced us our perfectly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUh,\u201d Jason said, glancing at me. \u201cWell\u2026 it doesn\u2019t really matter what <em>I<\/em> think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I want to kiss Tommy,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason looked satisfied and turned back to Pip. \u201cThere you go. Case closed. You have to be sure about these things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo! Come on!\u201d Pip squawked and turned to face me. \u201cGeorgia. I know you\u2019re shy. But it\u2019s <em>totally normal<\/em> to be nervous about crushes. This is literally the <em>final<\/em> chance you have to confess your feelings, and even if he rejects you, it doesn\u2019t matter, because he\u2019s going to uni on the other side of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have pointed out that this meant a relationship would be pretty difficult should he respond positively, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRemember how nervous I was telling Alicia I liked her?\u201d Pip continued. \u201cAnd then she was like, <em>sorry, I\u2019m straight<\/em>, and I cried for, like, two months, but look at me now! I\u2019m thriving!\u201d She kicked one leg into the air to make her point. \u201cThis is a no-consequence scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason was looking at me though all of this, like he was trying to suss out how I felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI dunno,\u201d I said. \u201cI just\u2026 don\u2019t know. I guess I do like him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A flash of sadness crossed Jason\u2019s features, but then it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d he said, looking down at his lap, \u201cI guess you should just do what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI guess I do want to kiss him,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked around the room and, sure enough, Tommy was there, standing in a small group of people near the doorway. He was just far enough away that I couldn\u2019t quite focus on the details of his face- he was just the concept of a person, a blob, a generic attractive guy. My seven-year crush. Seeing him so far away and blurry took me right back to being in Year 7, pointing at a photo of a boy I thought was probably attractive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that made up my mind. I could do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could kiss Tommy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/html.scribdassets.com\/4tn693s0u89505k5\/images\/15-dc94832b79.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d had times when I\u2019d wondered whether I\u2019d end up with Jason. I\u2019d had times when I\u2019d wondered whether I\u2019d end up with Pip too. If our lives were in a movie, at least two of us would have got together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bud I\u2019d never felt any romantic feelings for either of them, as far as I could tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip and I had been friends for almost seven years. From day one of Year 7, when we\u2019d been sat together in our homeroom seating plan and forced to tell each other three interesting facts about ourselves. We learned we both wanted to be actors and that was it. Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip was always more sociable, funnier, and generally more interesting than me. I&nbsp;was the listener, the supportive one when she\u2019d had her am-I-gay crisis at the age of fourteen, and then her I-don\u2019t-know-whether-to-do-acting-or-science crisis last year, and then her I-really-want-to-cut-my-hair-&nbsp;short-but-I\u2019m-scared crisis several months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason and I had&nbsp;met each other later, but we bonded faster than I\u2019d ever thought possible, given my poor track record for forming friendships. He was the first person I met who I could sit quietly with and it wouldn\u2019t feel awkward. I didn\u2019t feel like I had to try to be funny and entertaining with him; I could just be&nbsp;me, and he wouldn\u2019t dislike me because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d all had what felt like a&nbsp;thousand sleepovers with each other. I knew exactly where the broken springs were in Pip\u2019s bed. I knew that Jason\u2019s favorite glass in my cupboard was a faded Donald Duck one I got at Disneyland when I was twelve. Moulin Rouge&nbsp;was the movie we always watched when we hung out\u2014we all knew it word for word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were never&nbsp;any romantic feelings between&nbsp;Pip, Jason, and me. But what we did have\u2014a friendship of many years\u2014was just as strong as that, I think. Stronger, maybe, then a lot of couples I knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-About-the-Author-February-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-About-the-Author-February-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-About-the-Author-February-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/All-About-the-Author-February-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Alice Oseman<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/alice-oseman-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England. She graduated from Durham University and is the author of YA contemporaries Solitaire, Radio Silence, and I Was Born for This. Visit Alice online at aliceoseman.com or on Twitter @AliceOseman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliceoseman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliceOseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuthorAliceOseman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7789423.Alice_Oseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LYgpRX\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aliceoseman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aliceoseman\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">TikTok<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-February-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Follow-the-Blog-Tour-February-2022.png 1024w, 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href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/badlandsbooks_\/\">@badlandsbooks_<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/1\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdophiles.com\/\">Nerdophiles&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/1\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/booksaremagictoo.com\/\">@booksaremagictoo&nbsp;<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post\/TikTok Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>3\/1\/2022<\/strong><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/kaitgoodwin.com\/books\"><strong>Kait Plus Books<\/strong><\/a><\/td><td><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/2\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/danasbookgarden.wordpress.com\/\">Dana&#8217;s Book Garden<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/2\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thereadingwordsmith.blogspot.com\/\">Reading Wordsmith<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/2\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thebookishfoxwitch\/\">@thebookishfoxwitch<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/3\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/popthebutterfly.wordpress.com\/\">popthebutterfly<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post\/TikTok Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/3\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/emeliesbooks.home.blog\/\">Emelie&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/3\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@patrickfromperks?lang=en\">patrickfromperks<\/a><\/td><td>TikTok Review or Spotlight<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emmreadsbooks\">@emmreadsbooks<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/onemused\">onemused<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/4\/2022<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/abookishdreamblog.wordpress.com\/\">A Bookish Dream<\/a><\/td><td>Review\/IG Post<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 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href=\"http:\/\/myfictionaloasis.wordpress.com\/\">My Fictional Oasis<\/a><\/td><td>Review<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Enter-the-Giveaway-February-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Enter-the-Giveaway-February-2022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Enter-the-Giveaway-February-2022-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Enter-the-Giveaway-February-2022-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/e2389ba21415\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enter here to win a print copy of&nbsp;<em>Loveless<\/em> by Alice Oseman!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>(US Only)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0march-2022-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Questions-and-Answers-February-2022.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Questions-and-Answers-February-2022.png 1024w, 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Have you added it&nbsp;to your tbr yet?&nbsp;Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-February-2022-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-February-2022-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-February-2022-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-February-2022-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kait-Plus-Books-Signature-February-2022.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for LOVELESS by Alice Oseman! 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