Book Review — Lily King

I went into this book thinking it would be a light romance I could easily blow through. I was wrong.

The first 100 pages of Heart the Lover went in one eye and out the other. To be fair, work was consuming my life at the time and the only thing I could process was that Sam was an absolute ass. I almost gave up.

I’m glad I didn’t.

By the end I was completely wrecked — which is not what I signed up for when I picked this up. Lily King writes love in a way that asks harder questions than most romance is willing to ask. How does Jordan forgive Yash? How does Yash forgive Sam? Is love really that powerful? I sat with those questions long after I finished.

Maybe I’ve never known a love — platonic or romantic — that makes forgiveness feel natural. Because forgiveness does not come easily to me. And yet the characters in this book make it look not just possible but inevitable. That gap between who I am and what this book believes people are capable of is what stayed with me.

And Yash. Spoiler alert. Why did he have to die without accomplishing much in life? He deserved more.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ — 4/5 stars

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