Sunday, October 12, 2025

2025 book 186

 Lily King’s Heart the Lover

Ah y’all this was so good. The description makes it sound like an average literary novel—a college student in involved in a love triangle, then the story flashes forward to her as a married mother of two—but reviewers I trust raved about it and I totally get why. (Sidebar to NC locals—I think the college parts are set here, as the author did her undergrad at UNC and Raleigh is briefly mentioned.) Just beautiful writing and characters, I was so moved by this, and I am pleased to have discovered the narrator here is also the protagonist of King’s novel Writers & Lovers, which I will be starting immediately. A.

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