e-Audio, 09:38:51
Narrated by: Aj Bridel
Release Date: May 10, 2022
Published by: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Read from: May 28-31, 2022
Stand-alone
Source: Library’s Libby
TW: Cheating
For Readers Interested In: Romance, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Summer Lovin,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.
me telTold 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.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I didn’t hear about this book until everyone started talking about it. And y’all know I am not one to be left behind. So what did I do? Immediately requested this from my library. And yes I’m going to go with the cliche saying: “I’m so glad I did.” It was full of drama and mess and flirting and summer fun and I really enjoyed it.
The ONLY reason I didn’t give this 5 stars was because I knew what the reasoning was superrrrrr early. So when it was finally revealed, it wasn’t a surprise to me. But trust me when I say if you don’t catch on to it, wooooo chile that ending will leave you in a doozie. And I think that’s why although I had to remove a star from my rating, I didn’t get completely mad about it. The build up and the writing style to get there was so good. I couldn’t get myself to stop listening to it.
I LOVED the characters. They were so real and raw. Even when they were teens I thought they felt real and were authentic. And it was really interesting to see the way they grew up over the summer. But what I didn’t like was how she was so talkative about everything else, but she never told ol boy how she felt. That she didn’t like that agreement. I understand she was trying to protect herself, but I just felt like they were protecting themselves from each other and they didn’t have to. They were the two people they could be real with. (Well….. lol)
Now the plot, I loved it. It went back and forth from the past summers when she was at the cabin to the present when she finally made her way back. I love books that have a non-linear timeline. It makes it easier to see the different ways they’ve grown and the amount of growth they’ve been through. Especially in situations like this book has. Even though the timeline is back and forth like this, it’s never confusing or anything. Even with me listening to it via audio at 2x’s the speed. It was always easy to follow.
The pacing of the plot was also really good. I loved the events that Fortune chose to show us and when. I think they made a lot of sense to put them in order the way they did. But I did think the ending was a bit drawn out. I know it was trying to be suspenseful, but the closer it got, the more they stretched it. And the more they stretched it, the less time they had for the resolution at the end. And they really needed one. Because you cannot drop a bomb like that and then have one last scene and that’s it. I was hella glad for the Epilogue because I would have trashed that ending without it.
The Epilogue was hella good. I wanted something just like that since the ending to the actual book seemed short. I liked that all the questions I had that came from the ending were answered and there is some new stuff that popped up in it as well. I was glad for that also.
This wasn’t something I would usually go out of my way to read. From just looking at it, the cover is pretty, but it’s also basic. And I hardly ever read the synopsis of books because I don’t like being spoiled, so I wouldn’t have read this. But thanks to all my friends and all the times it crossed my Goodreads, I can happily say I didn’t miss out on anything lol Now I can’t wait to see what else this Canadian author has in store!
Overall I give this
