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3.89 AVERAGE
Caitlin Elizabeth and Teddy Hamilton narrate [a:Elle Kennedy|1935000|Elle Kennedy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1403918688p2/1935000.jpg]’s new adult, friends-to-lovers romance, [b:The Summer Girl|168396071|The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)|Elle Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1685499680l/168396071._SX50_.jpg|97563852] (Avalon Bay #3), exploring how small-town secrets threaten a summer fling that unexpectedly evolves into first love. College student Cassie Soul returns to Avalon Bay for her first summer since her parents’ divorce to visit her grandmother, who plans to sell their family’s boardwalk hotel. Cassie’s turning twenty-one and hoping for a summer fling. She thinks she’s found the perfect guy when she meets Tate Bartlett on her first night in town.
Despite being a player and no stranger to flings, Avalon Bay’s fun-loving golden boy, Tate, is a surprisingly sweet guy. And he’s not a heartbreaker. It’s obvious Cassie isn’t a girl you can have a casual fling with, and nobody gets hurt. So, he puts her in the friend zone. But the more he gets to know her, the harder it is for him to deny and fight his attraction to her. He quickly realizes, too late, that friends-zoning Cassie was a monumental mistake. Soon, all Tate can think about is how much he wants more than anything to have a fling with Cassie this summer.
Because of their intense attraction, they surrender to their feelings for each other and become intimate, stretching the boundaries of their new friendship. They agree to keep their fling a secret, not realizing that there are far more dangerous secrets than theirs at stake. Like many small towns, Avalon Bay has secrets that could devastate Tate and Cassie’s relationship and their lives once revealed.
Elizabeth and Hamilton’s vibrant, expressive narration drew me into Kennedy’s steamy, captivating summer romance and kept me avidly listening as the novel flew by. Their narration perfectly captures the character’s personalities and the novel’s shifting moods, tones, and depths of emotion that Kennedy wrote into this story. Elizabeth’s narration is exceptional. She becomes each of the characters, regardless of age or gender. Elizabeth’s Southern and French accents are lovely. Her voice for Tate is closer to how I think the character might sound. Hamilton’s narration for Cassie and Tate is fine. However, his narration/voice captures Tate’s friends and parents better. Elizabeth and Hamilton provide distinct narration that differentiates between the characters using pacing, intonation, inflection, and emotion to give them distinct voices that reveal their personalities, feelings, quirks, and states of mind. Both narrators brilliantly express their characters’ moods and emotional turmoil.
Elizabeth and Hamilton breathe life into every emotional beat within Kenndey’s novel such that I can’t imagine anyone else but them narrating [b:The Summer Girl|168396071|The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)|Elle Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1685499680l/168396071._SX50_.jpg|97563852]. Elizabeth’s narration of Cassie’s emotional trauma and angst when dealing with the trauma of her parent’s divorce and her mother is phenomenal. Elizabeth imbues Kennedy’s emotional scenes with so much raw emotion that Cassie’s pain is so visceral it’s a living, breathing entity. She becomes Cassie’s cruel, calculating mother entirely. Hamilton’s narration shines most with the emotional, humorous, and steamy scenes. In Tate’s scenes with his family, Hamilton captures Tate’s feelings perfectly.
The novel’s tone ranges from humorous, intimate, angsty, intensely emotional, and sizzling hot, and the narrators deftly shift between these tones without affecting the novel’s excellent pacing. During the novel’s intimate scenes, Hamilton and Elizabeth use their full vocal ranges to express/portray the intimacy between the characters and their chemistry, sensations, desire, and passion for each other. Both narrators wonderfully capture Kennedy’s emotional and romantic story. I love Elizabeth’s narration for both Tate and Cassie more.
Kennedy develops Cassie and Tate’s relationship through humorous, sexy, and sweet banter and interactions and sweet, steamy, intimate, and sexy love scenes that also contribute to the characters’ development and evolution and the story’s progression. Cassie’s down-to-earth, sweet, funny, relentlessly optimistic, and girlfriend material. Kind, thoughtful, compassionate, and a good friend who genuinely respects women. I love how being friends first, then lovers, helps Cassie and Tate grow and encourage each other to face their fears, follow their dreams, and be honest with their parents about what they want from their lives and how their parents treat them.
Kennedy skillfully writes a vividly and descriptive multifaceted story that, at first glance, is simply a fun, lighthearted, steamy friends-to-lovers, summer fling that becomes something infinitely more profound and more vital to Tate and Cassie but is unexpectedly threatened by small-town secrets. Sweet, funny, sexy, emotional, steamy, angsty, and romantic, [b:The Summer Girl|168396071|The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)|Elle Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1685499680l/168396071._SX50_.jpg|97563852] explores themes of first love, falling in love, taking risks, small-town and family secrets, self-esteem, toxic parents, second chances, self-confidence, belonging, and following your dreams. I highly recommend the audiobook to fans of steamy new adult romances focused on friends-to-lovers, summer flings, and timed relationship tropes where heroes fall fast and hard for the heroine.
Advanced review copy provided by St. Martin's Griffin and advanced listening copy provided by Macmillan Audio via Netgalley for review.
Despite being a player and no stranger to flings, Avalon Bay’s fun-loving golden boy, Tate, is a surprisingly sweet guy. And he’s not a heartbreaker. It’s obvious Cassie isn’t a girl you can have a casual fling with, and nobody gets hurt. So, he puts her in the friend zone. But the more he gets to know her, the harder it is for him to deny and fight his attraction to her. He quickly realizes, too late, that friends-zoning Cassie was a monumental mistake. Soon, all Tate can think about is how much he wants more than anything to have a fling with Cassie this summer.
Because of their intense attraction, they surrender to their feelings for each other and become intimate, stretching the boundaries of their new friendship. They agree to keep their fling a secret, not realizing that there are far more dangerous secrets than theirs at stake. Like many small towns, Avalon Bay has secrets that could devastate Tate and Cassie’s relationship and their lives once revealed.
Elizabeth and Hamilton’s vibrant, expressive narration drew me into Kennedy’s steamy, captivating summer romance and kept me avidly listening as the novel flew by. Their narration perfectly captures the character’s personalities and the novel’s shifting moods, tones, and depths of emotion that Kennedy wrote into this story. Elizabeth’s narration is exceptional. She becomes each of the characters, regardless of age or gender. Elizabeth’s Southern and French accents are lovely. Her voice for Tate is closer to how I think the character might sound. Hamilton’s narration for Cassie and Tate is fine. However, his narration/voice captures Tate’s friends and parents better. Elizabeth and Hamilton provide distinct narration that differentiates between the characters using pacing, intonation, inflection, and emotion to give them distinct voices that reveal their personalities, feelings, quirks, and states of mind. Both narrators brilliantly express their characters’ moods and emotional turmoil.
Elizabeth and Hamilton breathe life into every emotional beat within Kenndey’s novel such that I can’t imagine anyone else but them narrating [b:The Summer Girl|168396071|The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)|Elle Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1685499680l/168396071._SX50_.jpg|97563852]. Elizabeth’s narration of Cassie’s emotional trauma and angst when dealing with the trauma of her parent’s divorce and her mother is phenomenal. Elizabeth imbues Kennedy’s emotional scenes with so much raw emotion that Cassie’s pain is so visceral it’s a living, breathing entity. She becomes Cassie’s cruel, calculating mother entirely. Hamilton’s narration shines most with the emotional, humorous, and steamy scenes. In Tate’s scenes with his family, Hamilton captures Tate’s feelings perfectly.
The novel’s tone ranges from humorous, intimate, angsty, intensely emotional, and sizzling hot, and the narrators deftly shift between these tones without affecting the novel’s excellent pacing. During the novel’s intimate scenes, Hamilton and Elizabeth use their full vocal ranges to express/portray the intimacy between the characters and their chemistry, sensations, desire, and passion for each other. Both narrators wonderfully capture Kennedy’s emotional and romantic story. I love Elizabeth’s narration for both Tate and Cassie more.
Kennedy develops Cassie and Tate’s relationship through humorous, sexy, and sweet banter and interactions and sweet, steamy, intimate, and sexy love scenes that also contribute to the characters’ development and evolution and the story’s progression. Cassie’s down-to-earth, sweet, funny, relentlessly optimistic, and girlfriend material. Kind, thoughtful, compassionate, and a good friend who genuinely respects women. I love how being friends first, then lovers, helps Cassie and Tate grow and encourage each other to face their fears, follow their dreams, and be honest with their parents about what they want from their lives and how their parents treat them.
Kennedy skillfully writes a vividly and descriptive multifaceted story that, at first glance, is simply a fun, lighthearted, steamy friends-to-lovers, summer fling that becomes something infinitely more profound and more vital to Tate and Cassie but is unexpectedly threatened by small-town secrets. Sweet, funny, sexy, emotional, steamy, angsty, and romantic, [b:The Summer Girl|168396071|The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay, #3)|Elle Kennedy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1685499680l/168396071._SX50_.jpg|97563852] explores themes of first love, falling in love, taking risks, small-town and family secrets, self-esteem, toxic parents, second chances, self-confidence, belonging, and following your dreams. I highly recommend the audiobook to fans of steamy new adult romances focused on friends-to-lovers, summer flings, and timed relationship tropes where heroes fall fast and hard for the heroine.
Advanced review copy provided by St. Martin's Griffin and advanced listening copy provided by Macmillan Audio via Netgalley for review.
emotional
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
I absolutely loved this book. I wasn’t expecting much or too fall in love with the characters individually and them being together.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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:
Yes
Thank you @netgalley!
4.75 stars!!
The summer vibes on this book!!
It was hilarious from the get go and I loved both main characters from the minute they were introduced.
I enjoyed the way it was sort of a slow burn. Elle Kennedy really does know how to write romance!
I love it so much!
4.75 stars!!
The summer vibes on this book!!
It was hilarious from the get go and I loved both main characters from the minute they were introduced.
I enjoyed the way it was sort of a slow burn. Elle Kennedy really does know how to write romance!
I love it so much!
emotional
funny
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:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes