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A review by happyeverabigail
This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
2.0
Thank you to PRH Audio for the complimentary audiobook.
So much could have been resolved if these characters just talked to each other but instead they just waited 5 years to do it.
I really disliked the FMC’s friend. They are supposed to be BEST friends so little things would pop up and her friend would absolutely gaslight her. They seemed so incompatible to me. And yes this book is more about their friendship than the romance as I knew going in based on other reviews but I didn’t expect to dislike the “moral” of the friendship story so much.
Felix was interesting and swoony I’ll definitely give the MMC that. I don’t understand this author’s decision to have some open door spice and some closed because per the premise you know they have a night together and it fades to black immediately after they meet and the FMC reflects the next morning that it’s the best of her life. That’s fine to be closed door albeit a harder feat to pull off when so much of the plot hinges on this one night we see none of and yet later on in the book there is on page intimacy but it’s too little too late as I was already feeling in the slog of the slowness of the middle section of this book unfortunately.
The saving grace of this for me were the descriptors of PEI. Absolutely my favorite part and I do think the narrator did a great job.
So much could have been resolved if these characters just talked to each other but instead they just waited 5 years to do it.
I really disliked the FMC’s friend. They are supposed to be BEST friends so little things would pop up and her friend would absolutely gaslight her. They seemed so incompatible to me. And yes this book is more about their friendship than the romance as I knew going in based on other reviews but I didn’t expect to dislike the “moral” of the friendship story so much.
Felix was interesting and swoony I’ll definitely give the MMC that. I don’t understand this author’s decision to have some open door spice and some closed because per the premise you know they have a night together and it fades to black immediately after they meet and the FMC reflects the next morning that it’s the best of her life. That’s fine to be closed door albeit a harder feat to pull off when so much of the plot hinges on this one night we see none of and yet later on in the book there is on page intimacy but it’s too little too late as I was already feeling in the slog of the slowness of the middle section of this book unfortunately.
The saving grace of this for me were the descriptors of PEI. Absolutely my favorite part and I do think the narrator did a great job.