Received: purchased
Read from December 23, 2022 to January 8, 2023
Synopsis from Goodreads:
CHARLIE: “I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me.”
NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue. Laugh. Maybe we're kind of boring. But that’s fine with us.”
Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’, for God’s sake!
But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever…
Review:
Originally written as a novella that follows Solitaire, Nick and Charlie is set within the Osemanverse, the world Alice Oseman has created that includes Heartstopper. It takes place one year after Solitaire and two years after the first volume of Heartstopper. Nick is about to leave for university, and it deals with Charlie's and Nick's feelings over becoming long distance while he's away.
At only six chapters, this is a short book that's very easy to read. While it's emotional, since Nick and Charlie are dealing with a lot, I highly enjoyed the story. It was nice getting a glimpse of their relationship at this point in time, and it was especially fun that Alice Oseman posted a mini-comic of when they're both in university while I was reading the novella.
I truly do love this world so much, and I love how many different stories we have from it. When I start reading the novels that completely focus on other characters, it will be a little bittersweet, but I'm sure I'll enjoy them all the same. I just really love the characters that Oseman creates.
Before I get to those books with those other characters though, I have one more novella to read that follows Tori, Charlie, and Oliver. I've heard this one is potentially sadder in tone than Nick and Charlie, but I'm still looking forward to reading it.
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