What We’re Reading in July 2025

Travel, second chances, and a gentle reminder to live and love to the fullest.

Get your copy of PS: I Hate You (Amazon) and read with us!

What Victoria Loved

VICTORIA’S RATING: 5/5

⚠️ TWs: cancer, death, grief, self-harm, neglectful / emotional abusive parents

I couldn’t put this book down from the second I started it. I finished it in a single sitting and I’m already looking forward to rereading it. 

Lauren Connolly shows us the strength of found family and demonstrates different manifestations of grief through the loss of a sibling, a child, a best friend, a partner. But it’s the second-chance love story that will simultaneously fill your heart up and rip it to shreds with each turn of the page. 

What a beautiful way to celebrate life. What a devastating adventure to love. But in the end, she reminds us that it’s all worth it… because what would you do if you could love your person for just one more day?

Set the mood. Listen to our PS: I Hate You playlist (Spotify).

What the Book Club Loved

Come back at the end of the month to see how the Book Club rates PS: I Hate You!

• FIREWORKS & STEAM: X/5

• WRITING STYLE: X/5

• CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: X/5

• THE LOVE STORY: X/5

“XX”

- READER

If You Loved PS: I Hate You, You’ll Love These

• LETTERS FROM A LOVED ONE: These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (Amazon)

  X. Read my full Sneak Peek.

  VICTORIA’S RATING: X/5

• BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND: [Title] by [Author] (Amazon)

  X.

  VICTORIA’S RATING: X/5

• SECOND CHANCE FORCED PROXIMITY ON THE ROAD: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (Amazon)

  An HoH Book Club pick!

  VICTORIA’S RATING: X/5

• BY THIS AUTHOR: This is the first of Lauren’s novels that I’ve read, but pre-order her upcoming release, Love in Plane Sight (Amazon).

Until the next chapter!

xo, Victoria

P.S. Craving more books featuring these sub-genres, tropes, and themes? Tap the links below.