Every Summer After by Carley Fortune | BOOK REVIEW

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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. 

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune | BOOK REVIEW

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
BOOK REVIEW

This book has been everywhere lately. IG or GR, wherever I looked people raved about it. And look at me know – I’m right there with them.

It’s the PERFECT SUMMER ROMANCE and gave me the most wonderful LOVE AND OTHER WORDS vibes!!!

Heartfelt and genuine. I think from the very beginning I had the feeling as if I read someone’s actual love story. The descriptions of rural Canada, and just the way it was told- it felt refreshingly authentic.

I was hooked!!!!!

Quintessentially it’s a YA novel. The couple is 13 years old when they meet and the novel chronicles six summers – you can do the math. The majority of the book is set in the past, only a few chapters, or two days exactly, are set in the present. BUT this actually didn’t bother me because I really loved the YA part.

For all the contemporary romance I read, when it comes to these kind of books, that jump from past to present, I love the YA part the most. I adore the falling in love part. First love. The exploring of hearts. The sexual awakening and tension. It’s such an emotional and eye opening moment. Which makes it kinda messy too – but in a good way.

And of course there is always a fallout, otherwise there wouldn’t be such a timeline. Let’s just say the fallout was my least favourite part of the book – not surprisingly. And I put the idiocy that happened, down to being jung and broken hearted.

But besides that, the characters were just wonderful. I adored all three, Percy, Sam and Charlie. Their camaraderie and friendship lasted because it was genuine. And that’s how it came across.

Every Summer After is definiyle a highlight of 2022 for me. For a debut novel this one was impressive, probably one of the best I read this year. I devoured the book. Loved 90% of it, and can only recommend it. Also I can’t wait to see what the author comes up with next.

FOUR AND A HALF STARS

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Every Summer After by Carley Fortune | BOOK REVIEW