A review by bookishwelshie
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

4.0

This one was fun! Just For The Summer starts with an AITA-style Reddit post by the MMC, Jacob. Every women he dates ends up not being “the one”, and as soon as they break up - the women end up finding their soulmates. Jacob is perpetually unlucky-in-love, this feels like a curse.
Enter Emma, who writes to Jacob saying she has the same problem, but with the men she dates. They hatch a plan to date each other, have a quick fling, and then break up, to hopefully cancel out their bad luck. Hopefully they will then go on to find the love of their lives.
Or could they find that in each other? Could fate have brought them to one another?

Some difficult themes like parental neglect are brought up, with Emma’s Mother, and how this is impacting her as an adult. I like the way Abby Jimenez has these realistic themes of mental health struggles throughout her romance books. It makes them feel more real.

Buddy read with my GR/Fable friend, Angelpompom!