Heart the Lover

This might be one of the best books I’ve read in 2025. It’s beautiful. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s wonderful. It’s also a pretty quick read. It is the fall of our narrator’s senior year of college when she meets two brilliant boys: Sam and Yash. They are stellar students, living off-campus in a beautiful house of a professor on sabbatical. They give her the nickname of Jordan, and she finds herself swept up into their world of witty banter and secret language. By the end of senior year, she finds herself in a bit of a love triangle. When she graduates from college, each of them makes difficult decisions that will shape the course of the rest of their lives. I am being vague so that you get all of the lovely surprises I got. Then we meet Jordan decades later, now a successful author. The glory days of her youth seem far behind her, except they aren’t. I will say no more but just read this book. It’s beautifully written, and while it is very sad, it moved me—a wholehearted A+ book.