As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means. This is the fourth in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between. It is such a refreshing reality to see a book with actual emotional intelligence represented to beautifully. This special-edition hardback contains an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, A VERY SPECIAL DAY, in black and white; beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover. In their graphic form, the books are accessible to young readers, those to whom the books are aimed.

As someone who has dealt with self-harm and depressive episodes, I appreciate the way this was handled in the book more than I can explain. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fourth volume of the HEARTSTOPPER series.As a teacher who worked very hard to promote the understanding and acceptance of diversity, I applaud Alice Oseman for her "Heartstopper" series of books about two lads, initially of very different interests, who fall in love and navigate the waters of fellow student reactions, parents' views and, occasionally, hostility yet develop a safe and worthwhile relationship.

Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. I do want to note, however, that this book doesn't shy away from content matter and may be extremely triggering for individuals. The book tells such a sweet story of innocent young love with all its shyness, embarrassment, humour and awkwardness and is incredibly relatable for anyone who is or ever has been a teenager with a crush. Alice's books have won, been shortlisted or nominated for a number of awards, including the YA Book Prize, the Inky Awards, the Carnegie Medal, and the Goodreads Choice Awards.Not only encourages acceptance of diversity, but makes it impossible not to fall in love with this quirky group of friends and their experiences and adventures. Love often gets represented as an obsessive desperation that can plug any issue and solve anything (which it is); but Oseman, in her wholistic visual style, is revealing the slow and consuming fire that can burn in the corner of your room while you confront anything that comes at you(still intense and overpowering, but with proper boundaries and self-reinforcement).

I've dealt with all of these things throughout my life because of my own experience or someone I knew however my little was shocked to hear WHY Charlie wasn't eating. As an older woman I feel Alice Osman has touched so many people and you don’t have to be gay to thoroughly enjoy them. If you arent in a good headspace or part of your mental health journey I do want to warn you to go into this one with the utmost caution. Fourth in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between.

This special-edition hardback contains an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover. She can usually be found staring aimlessly at computer screens, questioning the meaninglessness of existence, or doing anything she can to avoid getting an office job. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. Now in gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic A VERY SPECIAL DAY, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition.