‘Heartstopper Volume 1’ By Alice Oseman c.2020, Graphix Scholastic $14.99/288 pages And sparks flew. Forget the beginning of a new romance; the middle is where the best part is, the boy-meets-boy part where everything’s a first.
First hand hold, first hug, first kiss, that’s what you want to see. Sparks. Embers for a flame to come, maybe even some heat.
And in “Heartstopper Volume 1” by Alice Oseman, that’s what you get. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Spring hadn’t meant to come out as gay.
It happened and he never really had control of it: one day, nobody knew and then everybody did. He was bullied, of course, and though there were a few guys in his class that he called friends, he never truly knew whom he could trust.