I have been so excited to read this book! Guess what? It was great!
Book:
Title: Every Summer After
Author: Carley Fortune
Published May 10th 2022 by Berkley
Genre: Romance
Pages: 320
“Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually, that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.”-Goodreads
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Book Review:
Slow start but an amazing finish.
Fortune’s debut novel impressed me so much. I loved hearing the romance and the story unfold.
It did not have much more than the romance aspect of the story. The plot was pretty-much romance-focused. Therefore, I don’t have a lot to say about the story, but I did really enjoy it.
Romance:
I was trying to decide which categories to discuss in this post, but I really think the only one that matters is romance.
I love this found you later, childhood besties romance trope. This book was at first not super unique, but as we rolled along in the story it got deeper and the characters vibed with me even more. It got more and more interesting. But it felt so real. I love romances that feel like everyone’s day-to-day. I loved this romance so much. It was such a fresh, fun summer romance book.
What I Liked:
- Lake
- Summery romance
- Girl screwing up the relationship
- Canada
What I Didn’t:
- Slow start
- Less tension in the now parts that I thought
Read This Book If You Love:
- Summer romance
- Childhood friends to lovers
- Breakups
- Slow reveals of information overtime
Star: 3.8
As always, thanks for reading,
A Bookie
