Title: Heart the Lover by Lily King
Book Beginnings quote:
You knew I'd write a book about you someday.
Friday56 quote:
I'm aware that I had ideas about the future that I hadn't discussed with myself.
Summary:
Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. (Publisher)
Review: I absolutely loved Lily King's Writers and Lovers so I was quick to pick up this book, Heart the Lover, which is also about a writer and her love life. This one, however, just about broke my heart and I cried buckets full of tears throughout the book. This book is about love found, and love lost. But it is also about friendship and forgiveness. Plus it is so well written. I could picture every single word that was written...the profound ones and even the silly ones.
I don't have much else to say, other than urging you to read it. You can thank me after you are finished.
My rating: 5 stars.
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