Since Alice Oseman’s comics have been adapted on Netflix, the franchiseHeartstopperachieved immense success throughout the world. Subtitle First times, the fifth and penultimate volume in the series depicts a crucial period in Nick and Charlie’s relationship, a phase of joyful emancipation. Surrounded by their fabulous circle of friends, the two lovers continue to face mental health and body image problems, but they also experience desire, which becomes more and more compelling, and the fear of being separated. through their university studies. The British author is here more skillful than ever when it comes to suggesting in a few panels, through a look, an embrace, a reflection in the mirror or a pink cheek, the strong emotions of her heroes. The adolescent state, its spontaneity and candor, this quest for truth and autonomy, littered with paradoxes and outbursts, all of this is so well rendered that we constantly go from laughter to tears.
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