Every Summer After by Carley Fortune: Review

Have you ever read one of those stories that were such a slow burn that it just thought you would never get to the Happily Ever After? While I love these types of stories, I also know how hard they are to read.

You may feel frustrated or find yourself itching to turn those pages just as fast as possible. That is exactly what happened when I dived into this upcoming release.

Emotional and gut-wrenching in many ways but definitely a love story for the ages. Continue on for my full review.

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Publisher: ‎ Berkley (May 10, 2022)
ISBN-13‏ : ‎ 978-0593438534

OVERVIEW:
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.

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Review

There is almost a love/hate relationship with authors that write stories that seem to tear your heart out page by page. This book is one that I hated to put down at any cost.

Young love that spans through the ages and a heartbreaking secret that hovers over your head throughout the book was emotional yet hopeful at the same time.

Fortune dials us in with a dual time frame story that puts you thru the emotional wringer as you try to figure out what broke them. The term “best friends forever” was epitomized in this story and you cannot wait to see if all can be healed.

I love the deep-felt connection between all of the characters. Beautiful dreamy days at the lake with the buzz from young love pulls you right into Every Summer After. It is everything you look for in a fresh, tingly read!

So why only 4 stars? I just need more at the end of these emotionally draining stories. I want the feel-good to last longer! Plus, the secret stretched out for a long time! (Okay, bumping to 4.5 stars!)

This author has a fabulous writing style and the touch that will keep her out front for a long time to come! Cannot wait to read more from her!

4.5 STARS!

Disclaimer: Chris has personally reviewed the product listed above. She has not received any monetary compensation for her review but did receive a free ebook so she could evaluate and use it for this post. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ.