Our May Romance selection for LaLa Life Book Club is Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, and even though I read this book in April, I chose it as the May pick because I wanted everyone to experience this absolutely wonderful book. I can’t wait to share all my thoughts with y’all.
Here’s what the book is about:
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.
You can add it to your Goodreads here. Order it on Amazon here.
My Review
If you follow me on Instagram, you know how much I adore this book. I don’t see how any other book I read this summer will top this one. It is definitely going to reappear on my yearly favs list. I cannot recommend this book enough.
What I loved: This story is filled with angst and swooniness (no, that’s not an actual word, but it should be.) I absolutely loved how the timeline shifts from Percy and Sam’s past and present. I felt the relationship progressed in such a real way and even though the present occurred over the span of one weekend, it didn’t feel rushed in the slightest. I already want to reread this book and although I don’t normally reread books so soon, I’m making an exception for this one. One of my all time favorite romances. It reminded me so much of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren and The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Hann. If you loved those books, you will love Every Summer After by Carley Fortune.
What I didn’t love: absolutely nothing. This book is perfection. 🙂 If you’re looking for a quick beach read, this is it. Pick it up. I promise you will love.
If you read this book this month, what did you think?? Did you love it as much as me? Come chat with us in our book club Facebook group or follow me on IG.
