The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Oseman, Alice. Loveless. Scholastic, Inc. March 1, 2022. Kindle.

In the novel Loveless by Alice Oseman, Georgia Warr believed she was just very selective about the men she wanted to date until she realized she did not want to date men, or women, or anyone. Georgia thought she would miss out on the most important relationship of her life as an aromantic asexual. It took losing her best friends to make her realize that friendships were just as important as romantic relationships.

At the after-prom party, Georgia begins to suspect there is something different about her when she is disgusted when the boy whom she thought that she had a crush on tries to kiss her. She tries to tell herself that in college she will transform herself into the sort of person who will have lots of friends and who will date men.

In college, things go from bad to worse for Georgia as her attempts to find out what gender she prefers alienate both of her best friends. Georgia dates Jason, her best male friend, because she believes if she could fall in love with anyone, it would be him. After their first disastrous kiss, Jason is hurt when he learns Georgia was using their relationship as an experiment.

Georgia further angers Pip, her best female friend, when Pip discovers Georgia kissing Rooney, the girl on whom Pip has a crush. Pip refused to listen to either Rooney or Georgia when they tried to tell her that there was no romance in the kiss because it was just a test. Rooney had suggested that Georgia could test out if she liked girls by kissing her.

Georgia is devastated both by the discovery that she is aromantic and asexual, a person who is unable to fall in love with either gender and is not interested in sex. She is also lost without the support of her friends. She wins back Pip and Jason by creating special surprises for both of them that demonstrate how well she knows them and wants the best for them.

Georgia, meanwhile, has been forging a new relationship with Rooney. This new relationship has proved to Rooney, who hates herself for turning her back on a platonic friendship in favor of a romantic relationship, that Rooney is not a terrible person who deserves to be hated. Rooney suggests to Georgia that they can go against the heteronormative rule book by putting as much emphasis on their friendship as one might put into a romantic relationship.