Every Summer After, Carley Fortune

Story Blurb

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.

My Thoughts/Opinion

I bumped this book to the top of my TBR because Prime just released the series and I wanted to make sure I had read the book ahead of watching it. This was my first Carley Fortune read though I have several friends who are big fans. She made it easy to stay in the story even with the dual timelines and I rooted for the young love that blossomed for Percy and Sam. I am not a huge fan of the twist though I saw it coming pretty early on. I also wish that a little more time was given to the present day story line at the end of the book. It felt a little rushed and could have been explored a little more deeply in my opinion. Looking forward to reading more from the author.

Favorite Quote:

“The way I felt about you was always so clear to me—even when we were young I knew you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a whole. I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem big enough for how I felt.”