Every Summer After by Carley Fortune on May 10, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Romance / Holiday, Fiction / Romance / Later in Life, Fiction / Women
Pages: 307
Format: Paperback
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“Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”
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.
I have not read any of Fortune’s books before, but dang, will I now! This book was so amazing. I was so obsessed. I know a lot of other people say this is a Love & Other Words knockoff, and it does strongly compare to it, but I loved that book and I think I loved this one more. Breathtaking, emotional, vulnerable, tender, intense, beautiful, funny and oh so REAL! This is a story about love, friendship and all the messiness that comes with it. Because it switches back and forth between the past and present, and a large chunk of the book is retelling the events of those six summers as teenagers, you might wonder if it reads YA. It doesn’t, even though there’s a coming of age element. It’s refreshingly mature!
No shocker, I gave this one five stars. BEAUTIFULLY written story that explores what love feels like, both good and bad, this is one you won’t want to miss! It will definitely be in my all-time favorites. If I could give this book 10 stars I would!