chaptersofchase 's review for:

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Book Review  || Thank you, Berkley Publishing, for the gifted book! {partner}

Genre: Romance
Trope: Second Chance
Format: 📖
Pub Date: 5.10.2022
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

"I lean in to give him a hug, and it feels like coming home and saying goodbye and four thousand days of longing."

This book gave me ALL of the feels. This is how coming-of-age romance stories should be written - it was beautiful, heartbreaking, and just over everything that I hoped it would be.

Why do I love these books that center around first love? I think it's a reminder of a feeling that you only get to experience once in your life. As you get older, you'll have those feelings with each new relationship, but there's nothing quite like experiencing it all for the first time. If an author can put together all of the looks, touches, etc., and make them come alive, that's the mark of an exceptional writer.

There were oodles of beautiful moments captured within the pages of Every Summer After. I sat down to read at one point, and before I knew it, I'd read 200 pages because I just got lost in the book. I would be brushing away a tear one moment and then feel my face grow hot as I read through the steamier pages. I genuinely did not want the story to end.

💛 First-Love, Summer romance
🥰 All of the feelings
😢 First heartbreak reminders
💯 A must-read

I recommend you read Every Summer After if you enjoyed reading Love and Other Words. The two books definitely have that same first-love vibe, but in my opinion, they're entirely different stories.



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