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🙌My favorite book of the year so far…

🥰Thank you so much @simonbooks for the gifted book 🙌

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📖Title: Heartwood
✍️Author: Amity Gaige
📅Pub Date: April 1, 2025

🙌I was truly blown away by the writing in this book. It’s often that I’m impressed with the STORY, but its RARE that I’m truly impressed and taken aback by how beautiful the writing itself is. As someone who loves edge-of-your-seat suspense and beautiful prose, I feel like I usually have to pick one or the other, so this is exactly what I want to read!

❤️This is why I love literary novels. Literary fiction is defined as “novels that emphasize style, character, and theme over plot.” This is 100% the case here. The plot itself is captivating, but the writing truly stole the show, in the best way possible.

🙌I loved every second of reading this book. I was immediately captivated, I never lost interest, and I cried at the end. I really can’t ask for anything more in a book.

📖The way that this story is told using a variety of mixed media will keep readers turning pages. Some of it is told in letters, interview format, first person POV, online chats, reddit posts, etc. I’m telling you this because I know many, like me, are a SUCKER for mixed media books! I’m sure this will also be amazing on audio, so I’ll have to do a re-read when it comes out!

🙌The very surface level plot is that the story revolves around a missing hiker on the Appalachian Trail and the desperate search effort to find her.

🌟This one is going to be hard to to top for favorite book of 2025 and I read it in January 🥰!

❓What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?