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My 4 star ⭐️ reads from 2025!
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items Some of my favorite reads from this past year that I gave 4 stars! Lots of romance and thrillers!
Such a good thriller! Always had me on the edge of my seat!
Never Lie: Frieda Mcfadden
Two people who thought love just wasn’t in the cards for them meet up after she slides in his DMs. A summer fling turns into love!
Just for the summer: Abby Jimenez
Two worlds completely different end up falling in love. A good romance and an even better ending! I loved this one.
Part of Your World: Abby Jimenez
I loveeee a good hockey book. One of the first hockey books I’ve ever read and it had me reading every hockey I could find!
Offside: Avery Keelan
Two writers battling to write a famous women’s life story but they end up falling in love!
Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry
A diver named Scarlett and a swimmer named Lukas end up in a fling and then fall in love while Scarlett has to overcome her fear of diving again.
Deep End: Ali Hazelwood
A photographer takes a photo of a boy that she didn’t know when she was a teen. Years later she comes back to town to take care of her grandmother and falls in love with a guy who ends up being the guy in the photo!
One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune
Such a crazy book! I was not expecting the ending AT ALL.
The Inmate: Freida Mcfadden
A girl gets a second chance of the last five years after having to declare bankruptcy on her restaurant, seeing her grandmother in the hospital, and losing her true love. This book was two lovers falling back together and her getting to repeat her li...
The Glitch: Leeanne Slade
I think this was one of my favorite thrillers by Freida! Such an unexpected ending and I honestly was scared of what would happen next while reading.
Ward D: Freida McFadden
Love this entire series but this was definitely one of my favorites! Cheesy romances are my fave and this has it written all in it.
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store: Laurie Gilmore
This book had me in TEARS!! I didn’t think I would love this book as much as I did. Such a good romance but also gut wrenching!
Before You Say Goodbye: Sarah Gate
This was my favorite book I read by Jenny Blackhurst! I could not stop listening to this book! A small town girl goes to a big city where she ends up missing and her sister comes to try and find out where she went and what happened.
The Summer Girl by Jenny Blackhurst
I love me a Jenny Blackhurst book. I did not think the killer would be who it was and it was definitely a crazy ending!
The Girl Who Left by Jenny Blackhurst
A great thriller that had me not expecting the twist at all! Definitely a good one if you’re not into the more scarier thrillers!
The Hiking Trip by Jenny Blackhurst
Do not read this book unless you’re ready to cry! I was not expecting this end at all and had me in tears wondering WHY!!
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
Another gut wrenching book that I could not stop listening to. Broke my heart and made me cry so hard but I loved reading about their love.
A thousand boy kisses, Tillie Cole
Like I said this series is my FAVORITE! But this book in the whole series was the one I looked forward to the most. This romance was hinted to us so many times in all the books and when it was finally written I was HOOKED!
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore
Everyone knows the book Love Hypothesis and this has the same type of story telling. If you like science this book is for you!
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
A girl experienced loads of trauma from childhood to adulthood and meets a man who wants to take all her worries away but she’s very hesitant of him!
Lie to Me by Molly McAdams