Reviews - Summer Ever After

152 reviews for:

Summer Ever After

Jane Crittenden

3.18 AVERAGE

bgreiner87's review

3.0

emotional funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

jessimarie's review

2.5

hopeful inspiring relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

jaxxm_'s review

0.5

lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Slow, overly descriptive a lot of the time, kept coming back to miscommunication which is my least favorite trope. Characters kept making decisions based on their insecurities and not communicating at all and it barely changed by the end of the book which was incredibly frustrating. So much happened for almost nothing to happen.

kyleeshaereads's review

3.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mrskristineg's review

4.0

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

mollified_moments's review

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book dragged on way too much; I wished it was more to the point and enjoyable. The characters felt pretty shallow, and even their “complicated issues” were kinda predictable and didn’t hit deep.

They relied a lot on stereotypes for the characters and their sexuality, which was disappointing. Like, the bi/pan character was portrayed as all flippant about cheating, and the Catalonian lady was just cold and greedy, which felt old-fashioned and not cool.

The disabled character was frustrating too — always needing help and never wanting to do things on her own, not because she couldn’t but because she wouldn’t. Then magically, at the end, she’s all better just because she lost weight and got her man back. Honestly, I should have DNF’d this one.

But hey, it did help me tick off a box for my BookIt Bingo because it had “Summer” in the title. That’s about the only good thing I got out of it in the end.