Every Summer After - Carley Fortune

Every Summer After

By Carley Fortune

  • Release Date: 2022-05-10
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
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From 5,127 Ratings

Description

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW THE PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES EVERY YEAR AFTER

"A radiant debut."Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life

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 story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

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Reviews

  • Cute, but not too much substance

    3
    By Cut wood
    Fun to read, but predictable.
  • This hit home for me…

    5
    By babykins529
    I read this to take a break from my usual fantasy/scifi reads and it was like reading about my own love life. It was crazy…almost like being transported back in time. I was able to relate a lot in this book; my now husband (#3) and I met when we were 13. Instant connection. We became best friends turned bf/gf then eventually lovers. We had a great relationship for being teenagers. But it didn’t last and we went our separate ways…me not get closer and developing a deep fear of rejection. Went through 2 failed marriages and never stopped thinking about my first love. Wrote him letters that I kept. Eventually found him on FB 20 years later and while I was going through divorce #2, we started talking again. It was like 20 years hadn’t gone by. We’ve been married now 8 years and life couldn’t be sweeter.
  • Every Summer After

    5
    By btc1210
    Such a great book. I loved it.
  • It was so good

    5
    By hbgtfrdt6uhijjijjhygtf
    I read one golden summer first and then this book and I like this one better because of how much emotion is in it how much Percy loved Sam and how she made a big mistake it’s just a 10/10
  • Believe the hype.

    5
    By danice.laut
    Heard about it on TikTok and once I started I couldn’t stop. Read this book in a DAY!
  • The perfect summer read

    5
    By feyreoflove
    The innocence mixed with the smell of summer and heart break. A heart bursting read.
  • I was surprised how much I disliked this book

    1
    By :)AB:)
    Contains Spoilers . . . . . . . The positives -Great writing style -The connection between the teenage Sam and Percy -Nostalgic summer cottage The negatives -The “Then” chapters read more teen sex than YA or coming of age -The cheating trope made me angry -Sam was avoidant until she cheated then suddenly valued his relationship with Percy -The reconciliation was underdeveloped and too late in the book
  • 🙃

    3
    By 9274$!;!
    I liked the storyline and present/past scenes but the writing was repetitive and not as eloquent as I would have enjoyed.
  • Overall good read

    4
    By ashleeisurmom
    The book had an incredibly slow start that took me days to get through. But once it got good I couldn’t put it down. Can’t wait to read the next 🙂
  • Exceptional!

    5
    By JennieTheHen
    Wow I’ve heard good things about this book. I’ve found over the years growing up reading what is considered good by the majority lately doesn’t touch on past experiences in regard to many things but especially reading, however this book is one of the rare gems when people said something is good you can believe it.

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