Reading the most popular books of 2025 ✨ according to Goodreads (most successful vlog of the year?)

And this one also feels like it could be a four star for me. I'm really liking this.

Like, dude, maybe I do need to read her book club picks next year because last year, if you recall, my number one favorite book that I read last year, Blue Sisters, was also a Read with Jenna book club pick last year.

I've been listening to Heartwood on audio all afternoon and I just finished reading it and this is without a doubt a five-star book which feels so good. Like I almost knew from the first chapter that this was going to be a five-st star book for me. So, I'm so glad that feeling was right.

There were some parts of this book that I thought were kind of slow and kind of boring towards the middle of the book, but then the ending was so strong. I thought the last like 50ish pages of this book were so good and there were so many shocking reveals that had my jaw on the ground.

I mean, I still think Razer Blade Tears is like my favorite from this author cuz that was the only book of his that I gave five stars and like I got emotional during that book.

I read The Boyfriend from Freedom McFaten last year and I gave it one star. Like, I was really not a fan of that.

But I still think this was so mid and I think this book was very predictable and not surprising at all. I just still don't understand, you know, like Freda's popularity because I'm like, is the bar really that low for thrillers that like this is what's one of the most popular thrillers of the year?

And I think out of those two, I think my favorite has been The Oienda so far because I gave Vampires of El Norte like maybe like a two and a half or a three star. I don't think this author, Isabelle Kas, has ever written anything that I've given more than three stars.

Her writing is just so good in this book and I felt really connected to the characters and I think because I felt so connected to these characters like that's a huge part of the reason why I ended up loving this one as much as I did. I mean, I was a little bit bored at times with like the plot in this book because, you know, like I mentioned, this book deals with a possession, which is like not my favorite thing to read about in horror.

And I think out of those two, I think my favorite has been The Oienda so far because I gave Vampires of El Norte like maybe like a two and a half or a three star.

I think I'm probably going to give this one like four and a half out of five stars because I don't think it was the perfect five-star book for me for a few reasons. Mostly because I do think this book had a very slow start and then there was also like a section of the book in the middle where I was starting to like lose interest just a little bit or I was like wanting things to pick up. So, I don't think this book had the perfect pacing for me, but like god, what an incredible story, you know, right after I finished updating you and I was at the park.

And I feel like in a lot of ways this book is actually reminding me a lot of Wild, which is like one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time because this is also about a woman who's going on this very extreme hike.