Friday, October 24, 2025

Heart the Lover by Lily King: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

   





Today's Featured Book: 

Heart the Lover: A Novel

by Lily King

Genre: Fiction

Published: September 30, 2025

Page Count: 249 pages

Summary: 

In the fall of her senior year of college, Jordan 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. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.




 


BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY is hosted by Rose City ReaderWhat book are you happy about reading this week? Please share the opening sentence (or so) on BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY! Add the link to your blog or social media post and visit other blogs to see what others are reading.

Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.


You knew I'd write a book about you someday. You said once that I'd dredged up the whole hit parade minus you.

I'll never know how you'd tell it.

For me it begins here. Like this.


King, Lily. Heart the Lover, p. 1.






THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by Anne of Head Full of Books. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up on Head Full of Books and visit others in the linky. 


We sit on the porch with our beers.

'You have a real life here, don't you?'

'I do. I imagine you have a real life, too.'

'I don't.'


King, Lily. Heart the Lover, 56%.







After I read the third wow-filled review of Heart the Lover, I felt compelled to try it, and now I know why the wow. This book oozes emotion. In lesser hands, this would be just another soap opera life, but these are not lesser hands.








The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer   

October 24th - Will AI ultimately benefit or harm the book industry? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

I do not know. As AI currently exists, I do not like it. It feels derivative, strung together, a second or third serving of what was originally a decent meal, poorly warmed up.


1 comment:

  1. I'm actually quite terrified it will destroy the book industry as we know it and perhaps even more. I am sure there are actual good things AI can do, but I think it's best it stays out of the creative circles and leave that to real people.

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