12 Favorite Books of 2025!!! 📚 🤓😍
Keli’s Book Closet
Where book lovers can share with me their passion of books as well!
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The only book I did not like from this month was Say You’ll Remember Me 😢 and it pains me to say that because I love her as an author. All of the other books I LOVED!
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My Favorite book for January- Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah, followed by When She Returned by Lucinda Berry and then Glint by Raven Kennedy 
My favorite book for February was Just This Once by Lena Hendrix followed by The Ritual by Shantel Tessier. I personally did not like One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware. 
Ok unpopular opinion, I did not personally enjoy When The Moon Hatched, but I did finish the book. I did think it had amazingly detailed scenes, characters, environments, and even made up food, but it was all too much for me. My favorite book for March was Gleam followed by The Bones Beneath My Skin followed by The Perfect Child. 
My favorite book for April was Praise by Sara Cate 
My favorite was Spark of the Everflame (Just Between Us was a close 2nd) and least favorite was The Good Girl -
Ok my favorite parts(s) of this book was all of the hilarious funny family banter 😂 My favorite line one of the siblings says to the other sibling is “I feel like we’re always one accident away from being in a True Crime podcast” 🤣
If you’re looking for a story that keeps you laughing, guessing, and occasionally yelling at the characters, this book delivers from the very first chapter. The hilarious family banter alone makes it worth picking up—every scene with the main character’s family feels like dropping in on a chaotic dinner table where everyone talks at once but somehow you still catch every joke. The humor is sharp, relatable, and perfectly timed, making the family dynamic one of the brightest highlights of the novel.
But what really hooks you are the characters. They’re layered, flawed, emotional, and sometimes downright infuriating—which is exactly why they feel so real. Throughout the story, you’ll find yourself constantly flip-flopping between liking certain characters and wanting to throw the book across the room because of them. The author has a talent for making you question everyone’s intentions, even as you sympathize with their messiness.
Just when you think you’ve figured out where it’s all going, the book hits you with twist after twist. Some are subtle, some are explosive, and all of them keep the story moving in fresh and unexpected directions. By the time you reach the end, you’ll be glad you stuck with every sharp turn, questionable decision, and dramatic reveal.
Overall I give the book 4.5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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This book is everything a slasher fan hopes for and more—relentlessly gory, emotionally charged, and strangely cathartic from start to finish.
From the very first chapter, the characters grab hold of you. Each one is crafted with such sharp, vivid detail that you feel pulled straight into their world—flaws, fears, secrets, and all. Even amidst the brutality, the author manages to make these characters deeply human, the kind you root for even when you’re terrified of what’s waiting for them around the corner.
The gore is unapologetic, almost cinematic, yet never feels like it’s too much. Instead, every gruesome moment serves the tension and the emotional stakes, making the story feel alive, dangerous, and addictively intense. The pacing is razor-tight, easing you in with unsettling unease before plunging into full-on chaos.
What really stands out is how cathartic the read becomes. Beneath the bloodshed, the story taps into themes of survival, resilience, and reclaiming power. There’s a surprising emotional release woven through the violence—almost as if the book allows you to breathe out your own anxieties through the characters’ fight to endure.
By the end, you’re left both rattled and satisfied, the way only the best slashers can manage. It’s a book that sinks its hooks into you early, drags you through the darkness, and somehow leaves you feeling lighter for having survived it.
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Alright, I absolutely Loved the graphic audio of the Zodiac Academy books!! 🌟 🌟 The book I read the fastest this month that I absolutely loved and couldn’t put down was Credence!! 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ I mean it definitely takes a certain reader to like who the relationships are between and some of the scenes but if you’re up for some uncomfortableness then you’ll devour it!! I give Credence 4.5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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My favorite book this month was either The Broken Girls or The Haunting of Paynes Hollow. I still really enjoyed the other books except for Gone Tonight and All The Colors of the Dark I had to DNF (Did Not Finish). I really did not like the writing style for either of those books and for completely different reasons. Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 ☠️
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My favorite book this month was Bear Town and Murder Road. I DNF’d Lies & Weddings only because it didn’t grab my attention after 100 pages.
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A Fantastic creepy ☠️👻 book to read in October!! I loved it!! 4 out of 4 ⭐️ I would say the creepy parts are more like NC-17 rated in this book! If this were to be a movie I would think of like Paranormal Activity or something creepy like that! I also loved the dynamic and love between the main female and male character!
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I Loooove a good fall 🍂🍁 magical, eerie book 📖 And this book delivers it! Besides the fact that the cover is awesome and beautiful the plot of the book is fantastic as well! It’s definitely PG rated when it comes to scary scenes. I loved the FMC Hollands journey to find the Alchemical Heart! I would love to see this book turned into a movie 🤩 I definitely recommend as a good book to read during the month of October as pretty much the whole book takes places on the eve of Halloween and on Halloween day 🎃👻
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