Every Summer After | Review

Every Summer After Published by Berkley by Carley Fortune
on May 10, 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit, YA, Coming of Age
Pages: 320
Source: Netgalley
Format: ARC, eBook
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ISBN: 0593438531
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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.

Told in alternating timelines, Every Summer After, is the story of two kids who fall in love very young and subsequently stay in love–even though they don’t stay together.

As with the general follies of youth–misunderstandings and teenage hormones get in the way.

Persephone (Percy) and Sam are just so adorable as teens together. They have tons in common and don’t seem to be swept up in how to be “cool” around each other–they just are. They’re just themselves.

Because they only see each other over the summer and a few holidays, they treat the time together with the care that it deserves. And then they get older.

One mistake sends them careening apart for over ten years. When they find each other again, it’s due to incredibly sad circumstances. And, what’s more, it seems the path back to that love they shared isn’t as easy as it should be.

I find that I much more enjoyed the story from when they were children. The innocence and love of those moments was just so sweet and endearing. Like nothing could ever get between them.

However, the story as a whole was refreshing and completely rewarding–even if it took a bit of time to get there.

This is a must-read this summer–especially if you’re in the mood to reminisce and enjoy sweet, young love.

 

 

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