#Every Summer After

[bookishfreedom]

this one was pitched to me as “if The Summer I Turned Pretty grew up” - and somehow it’s totally true and I still ended up loving it ?

[mybookdiaries]

You’re not an escape. You’re everything.

Meet me at the lake, Carley fortune

[bass-alien]

not me starting a new book and crying after just reading the 1st chapter lmao

[vanserrass]

books i read in 2023: every summer after by carley fortune

“i lean in to give him a hug, and it feels like coming home and saying goodbye and four thousand days of longing”

[maddiesflame]

Olá! Poderia fazer headers do livro every summer after com essas cores, por favor?

[rissyrosie]

I decided too name my favorite couples on my ‘favorites’ bookshelf from what I read:

~ Laura Jean and Peter Kavinsky from ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ by Jenny Han

~Jaewoo and Jenny from ‘XOXO’ by Axie Oh

(Yes I pictured Wony as Jenny and Taehyung as Jaewoo)

~Macallan and Levi from ‘Better Off Friends’ by Elizabeth Eulberg

Quentin and Margo from ‘Paper Towns’ by John Greene

~Jo and Laurie from ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott

Percy and Sam from ‘Every Summer After’ by Carley Fortune

~Levi and Cather from ‘Fangirl’ by Rainbow Rowell

America and Maxon from ‘The Selection Series’ by Kiera Cass

~Beyah and Samson from ‘Heart Bones’ by Colleen Hoover (only coho book I liked from her)

~Felicity and Alec from ‘Paper Hearts’ by Ali Novak

[noemyreads]

every summer after - carley fortune

book synopsis

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.

review

I didn't expect much from this book (truth be told, I didn't expect anything), I only read it because it was chosen in my friends' book club. it was so random I didn't even bother to read the synopsis.

i rated 2/5. like I said, I didn't expect anything from the book, but as the reading flowed I started to think that the story would be something more than just friends to lovers with slow burn, BUT THAT WAS IT.

pers lived her whole life waiting for a teenage romance that took one step forward and two steps back and never engaged in anything more than a friendship. I was very uncomfortable with this co-dependence of the two, both dated (at different times) and still wanted each other. I feel sorry for their partners, God forbid dating someone who is in love with their best friend and doesn't dare to give direction to this relationship.

i found sam a little annoying, i wanted pers with charlie or mason, I think sam lacked something and those two had.

anyway, this book reminded me of “the summer I got pretty”, the difference is that TSITP is good.

[edelweiss-o]

[melodysbookhaven]

Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.

Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

[ismahanescorner]

Book Haul | 📚🩵

the newest editions to my biblio-family!! 

🌟 The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah (very excited to read an Arabian fantasy written by an actual Arab author!!!) 😁😁😁

❣️Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (heard loads of good stuff about this one!!)

⛺️ Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (the hype got to me, hopefully it’s worth it!)

⛱️ Every Summer After by Carley Fortune (literally have no idea what this is about!)

♦️Solitaire by Alice Oseman (i loved everything i read by this author!!) 💗

🪄Back In A Spell by Lana Harper (witches?? count me in!!) 😌

[2003bookstoread]

3/2,003

Every Summer After

Book Description: 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. Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.

Genre: Fiction/Contemporary Romance/Young Adult/Adult/Chick Lit

Stand alone novel- 320 pages

Rating: 4/5 ⭐️

If you’re craving those summer vibes, this is the book for you! Personally, I don’t look for characters that I can relate to in a book. I really don’t find that necessary for it to be a good book, however this MC was definitely relatable! She would break out into a nervous sweat like every other chapter which I thought was funny. The author has a really cool writing style, and I am looking forward to getting into more of her books.

A good romance, but fair warning the mid/end made a lot of people mad. I won’t say anything more 👀

[nessaandreaa]

every summer after aesthetic <3

[skyler-reads28]

March Wrap Up 🍀📚

I read 3 physical books

🍀 Aristotle and Dante II

🍺 All Our Hidden Gifts

🍀 The Assassin’s Blade

I listened to 9 audiobooks

🍺 Red, White, & Royal Blue

🍀 A Touch of Darkness

🍺 Coraline

🍀 Daughter of No Worlds

🍺 Every Summer After

🍀 The Watchmaker’s Daughter

🍺 A Game Of Fate

🍀 A Touch of Ruin

🍺 The Tattooist of Auschwitz

My favorite physical book I read was Aristotle and Dante II and my favorite audiobook was Daughter of No Worlds 🫶🏻

What was your favorite read/listen this month?

[h-o-b-b-y]

Bem o futuro da Pers e Sam em Depois Daquele Verão 🥹

[lafleshlumpeater]

i'm actually so bad i need to be reading like 1000 things at once

[dudacanread]

Every Summer After -Review

spoilers under the cut!

Rating: ⭐⭐/5

Honestly, I'm so disappointed... I really thought this was going to be a five star read but the end really ruined it for me. Although, the falling in love process really captivated me, I think Carley Fortune has a beautiful way of writing her characters and I couldn't stop thinking about this book until I finished it.

I kind of guessed that Percy was going to cheat with Charlie in the beginning, but as the book went on and I saw the way they [Percy and Sam] loved each other so I thought I was wrong.

I wish I was wrong! I just cant forgive Percy (and Charlie either, who does that to their own brother??), also I think Sam deserves better.

I just felt like in the end Carley was trying to justify Percy cheating and that didn't go well for me. I would've loved this book if the reason they stopped talking was a misunderstanding, like they agreed to meet on a specific day to talk and when the other wasn't there they just assumed it was done. Anything but cheating!!!!

I'm thinking about reading her other books, should I? And if you liked the ending could you tell me why? I really don't mean this in a mean way, I just don't understand.