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A review by sarahkorn
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.5
Cute, lighthearted beach read, but I've heard this described as the "romance novel of the summer" and I just don't think it is, especially coming up against Carly Fortune's "Meet Me at the Lake."
Sam is a flat protagonist in a hell of her own making. Her relationship with Wyatt was sweet but had very little build up or tension to get me invested, and then she returns to Long Island 13 years later helplessly miserable in her job and her relationship with a man whose only real flaw or personality trait is that he plays tennis (read: rich and uninteresting, though Sam is also rich and uninteresting, so I fail to see where he went wrong).
She runs into Wyatt again and instead of being a healed, grown woman she hyperfixates on their past, though it doesn't help that her family keeps bringing it up, in front of her fiance (there is a brief therapy storyline, but I think that family as a whole needs a lot more of it). She also pities him for being a mechanic in LA, because he had sooo much potential (see how she isn't much different than Jack?). Eventually Wyatt tells Sam that she's making herself miserable, in part due to this totally outlandish flash mob situation at work, and it's like a lightbulb moment she couldn't put together on her own. She realizes Wyatt is actually more successful than he let on, and no longer pities him because surprise! He's rich too. They get back together and her world becomes technicolor, the exact thing she avoided for the last 13 years.
Sam is a flat protagonist in a hell of her own making. Her relationship with Wyatt was sweet but had very little build up or tension to get me invested, and then she returns to Long Island 13 years later helplessly miserable in her job and her relationship with a man whose only real flaw or personality trait is that he plays tennis (read: rich and uninteresting, though Sam is also rich and uninteresting, so I fail to see where he went wrong).
She runs into Wyatt again and instead of being a healed, grown woman she hyperfixates on their past, though it doesn't help that her family keeps bringing it up, in front of her fiance (there is a brief therapy storyline, but I think that family as a whole needs a lot more of it). She also pities him for being a mechanic in LA, because he had sooo much potential (see how she isn't much different than Jack?).