Heartstopper: Volume 1-4
★★★★★Read Aug 12, 2022
Read these quick after watching the TV show. What charming, wholesome stories. It makes me super happy as a middle aged gay guy to see stories like this told so forthrightly. It's written for a pretty young age set but I enjoyed it anyway as a fantasy and sweet story for people like me who never had stories like this about ourselves growing up.
The comics work really nicely and I wish I'd read them before the TV show. The writing is so very spare and the art is so light and whimsical. Really just sets a strong mood. The TV show is great too but it wasn't possible for me to read the first two books without picturing all the TV scenes and I think the graphic novel stands strongly on its own as a different thing.
Goodreads readers give it 4.60★, from 10,217 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.6, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Romance, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, LGBT, Queer, Comics, Contemporary, Gay.