Hi readers! Today I have a very summery read that reminded me so much of The summer I turned pretty so if you are looking for something similar, definitely check this one out!
✦Book Title: Every summer after
✦ Author: Carley Fortune
✦ Genres: romance
✦ Publisher: Berkley
✦ Publication Date: May 10th 2022
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☼SYNOPSIS
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.
☾REVIEW
★★★
Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
the fact that this reminded me so much of the summer I turned pretty series made it more enjoyable haha.
This is a friends to lovers with a second chance romance, to me that sound like perfection but IDK I feel like there was something lacking.
The summer vibes were there, it was easy to read however, it felt like something I had already read before and when the twist happened I was so not impressed with it.
I really liked the jumps in time and how you get to see their relationship build up, and what was THAT thing that made them fall apart.
With the being said, if you need to feel the void that TSITP has left you, read this book, it would probably fulfill that. But also if you are looking for a quick, not so smutty, summer romance this will also be for you!
✦ ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carley Fortune is the author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER, the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Canadian bestselling novel. She is an award-winning journalist and was most recently the Executive Editor of Refinery29 Canada. She’s worked at some of Canada's top publications, including the Globe & Mail, Toronto Life, and Chatelaine. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons. EVERY SUMMER AFTER is her first novel and she is currently writing her second.