Book Review | Heart the Lover
Notes, quotes, & final thoughts; a review that’s honest, thoughtful, and a little chaotic
Quick take: Not my usual type of read but it’s good to step outside your comfort zone every now and then, and this was certainly the book to do it. A story about love and loss and everything in between. Thoroughly heartbreaking, while also being hopeful and intriguing.
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📱 Heart the Lover by Lily King ✨ Included in Everand | Loved it
📖 232 pages | available on Everand Premium
⭐️ 5 stars: I deliberated on my rating. I truly enjoyed it and I’m incredibly glad I read it but it might not be for everyone. However, it made me ugly cry and I feel like this is going to live rent free in my head for a while, so 5 stars it is!
The background / tropes / read if you enjoy:
🎓 College, senior year
📓 Literary fiction with romance
🌎 Secondary location Paris
⚠️ Unplanned pregnancy, adoption, cancer, illness
😭 Made me cry
Thought and notes:
I laughed at the commentary about discussing classes based on the professor rather than the subject. As someone that graduated over a decade ago, I couldn’t tell you the name of a single professor. Though a few favorite high school teachers still stand out in my mind.
Full of thoughtful observations and reflections, a farewell to youth. Intellectual and literary, and difficult topics. Thoughtful and in my opinion, unique. There’s a certain flow to the mundane that’s intriguing.
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Favorite Quotes:
✨ All of literature rests on the promise that we change, we grow, have epiphanies, become better, understand our flaws.
✨I burst into tears. I run to my tiny room to read it. It is, as they always are, brilliant, erudite, distant, unapologetic; sweet and affectionate only in the last two sentences, like the turn at the end of a sonnet.
✨’Screw the calendar. What does a calendar know about love?’ (Re: age is just a number)
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