Tash and Jack respect each other even at their worst moments, and they’re both extremely patient with their cast.

I love that, at least amongst the main group of friends, there’s underlying respect that keeps everything civil. Jack and Tash’s relationship is by far the strongest storyline their push and pull over their content and their natures-while Tash is stringently organized, Jack is relaxed and almost laissez-faire-creates conflict, but relatively drama-free conflict, because even when they clash they maintain a base level of affection and support. It’s particularly entertaining when it focuses on Tash’s artistic creation and relationships with Jack and the actors. When Unhappy Families gets a shoutout from a popular vlogger, it reaches new heights and opens new opportunities for Tash, one of which is the opportunity to meet Thom, a fellow content creator with whom she’s long has a friendly/flirty online relationship. She and her best friend Jack are adapting Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina into a webseries called Unhappy Families.

Tash (rhymes with “posh,” not “ash”) is an aspiring filmmaker.

I’m a YA-obsessed millennial who adores queer stories and fandom novels, and who also loves classic literature (and who even read Tolstoy fairly recently). Still, I figured that if there’s a target audience for a book like this, it’s me. Maybe it’s the title: using “hearts” as a verb somehow both dates and ages the novel. Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of the black and white photo of classic Tolstoy with the juvenile pink hearts. It’s cute, but it didn’t make me want to read the book. There’s something offputting about the cover. I’ve been vaguely aware of Tash Hearts Tolstoy for a while, but never felt inspired to read it. Since Loveless wasn’t an option, I read Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee. I really wanted to read Alice Oseman’s Loveless, which was recently released in the UK but is not-as far as I’m aware-available in the US yet. There aren’t a lot, but my lackluster response to Let’s Talk About Love gave me an itch to find more. I was overall disappointed by it, but it got me thinking about the other asexual characters I’ve encountered. A few months, I read Let’s Talk About Loveby Claire Kann because it’s one of the most talked-about YA novels featuring an asexual protagonist.

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