
My number 2 read of 2025

Such a well written novel that took a turn I wasn't expecting. With a compelling plot and well-developed characters, I read this in one day.

Such a well written novel that took a turn I wasn't expecting. With a compelling plot and well-developed characters, I read this in one day.

What a book to end 2025 with. I am both crying and wanting to open it back up and start over from the beginning. Love and friendship and heartbreak and growing up and holding on and it was just so lovely.

I loved this book way too much considering how it devastated me…
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Just started The 5 Love Languages—curious to see what my love language really is! Anyone else read this?

Ok, so halfway through, I thought this was going to be a ‘meh‘ book, and that maybe Lily King‘s a little overrated (this is my first time reading her). But then, I‘m reading the ending, and I‘m blown away by it. I get all the hype now.

A book about love, friendship, and the relationships that mark us for life. King writes so evocatively about the intoxication of first love and how huge and impossible life choices loom when one is young. And then how the consequences of those choices follow you into adulthood. An exquisite novel.

This feels like a hard book to describe but it was very much my kind of read, as I knew it would be - one of my favourites of the year. #10beforetheend

“Justine reminded me what we risk every time we choose to love someone, not just that they may outlive us, or we them, but that they might break the heart we place in their hands. It‘s remarkable I think that many of us are willing to take that risk again and again.”