Percy and Sam barely had any time to work things through! The secret is revealed, there’s a few tears, apologies, and it ends.

I didn’t mind the “big reveal”, as I’d guessed it pretty early into the story, but it happened way too late. Honestly, based on vibes alone, I’d probably give this book a 5 stars, but there were a few things that kept me from completely loving it, the most important being the ending. I love when authors take the time to bring the setting to life, it anchors the characters into the story and makes it much more believable to me. I could visualize the lake, the sunsets, the cottage, everything. I also loved everything about the setting. Though the dialogue didn’t always feel the most natural, I loved their interactions both in the past and the present and thought they were a good (though messy) match, and I was rooting for them. Alternating between then and now, we get to watch Percy and Sam fall in love, knowing something will eventually break them apart. I thought there was such a nostalgic quality to it, and it evoked summer and romance so perfectly I needed to know what it was about.Įvery Summer After is a story about first love and second chances. When I first saw the cover for Every Summer After, I immediately wanted to read it. Percy must confront the decisions she’s made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, in order to determine, once and for all, whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. When Percy returns to the lake to attend Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. And slowly that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

Until the day she gets a call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek.įor five summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family 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. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in the city, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser that has felt too true for the last decade, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life. Posted by Kay on 11:00 am in 4 stars reads | 0 comments Home » 4 stars reads » Thoughts on : Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Thoughts on : Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

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