Persephone, also known as Percy, spent her childhood summers at a lake in northern Ontario where she formed a deep bond with Sam, transitioning from best friends to something more over six summers. However, their relationship abruptly ended, leaving Percy heartbroken and disconnected for 12 years. When a family tragedy brings Percy back to the lake, she is forced to confront her unresolved feelings and the secrets that tore her and Sam apart. The narrative seamlessly weaves between past summers of young love and present-day grief, exploring themes of friendship, growth, forgiveness, and second chances in a heartwarming and nostalgic manner, ultimately leading to a poignant and unexpected twist in the story that leaves readers emotionally invested.
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Triggers include themes of cheating and sexual harassment, which may be distressing for some readers.
Has Romance?
Romance is a central theme in the story, focusing on the rekindling of past relationships.
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"A radiant debut." - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry's Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she'd have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family's restaurant and curling up together with books-medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her-Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam's mother's funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she's spent punishing herself for them, they'll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
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4 comment(s)
Juvenile and predictable
I didn’t think it wrapped up the ending well. Does Charlie get over her feelings for her? I’d like to know his perspective.
I'm so disappointed. After all these enthusiastic reviews, I was expecting something really spectacular.
In general, I was expecting a lot more adult romance, not a coming of age story. And here the whole romance unfolds in the past. The vast majority of the book is devoted to past events. They are also the most important for the plot. This is where the secret is, although it is very easy to guess from the very beginning what will happen. It was all rather frustrating.
This book was definitely not for me. It had a few elements that I avoid in my romance novels. For example, I don't like flashbacks, usually I think they take space and distract you from what's going on in the current plot. And in this case it was exactly like that. I have also avoided the YA story for many years. I'm not interested in teenage feelings and drama. That's why the slowly developing friendship and love between Percy and Sam when they were still kids didn't interest me at all. I also don't like reading coming-of-age stories, I usually don't care how characters grow up over the years and become adults. I'm impatient, I want them to get down to business. Therefore, chapters from the past not only dragged on me, but I was also not entirely interested in them. Unfortunately, I soon realized that they would be the most important, which really disappointed me.
I really like the second chance romance theme. But only when the main characters parted were already fully formed adults, and if they were still teenagers, at least they had enough time to discover how they changed and grew up. I also don't like when the main characters take up their relationship where they left it fifteen years ago. People change over time, feelings fade, I want to see these two people have time to get to know each other again. In my opinion, Sam and Percy did not have that time at all.
Despite the whole story, I don't think I know the main characters. Of course, I know their childhood, but I don't know who they are now. What is important to them now, what are their goals and dreams, what kind of people they have become. That's why it's very difficult for me to connect with Percy and Sam as adults and cheer on their relationship. In fact, if it weren't for the epilogue, I wouldn't even be sure if they were going to be together in the end. Their entire romantic relationship is in the past. I have no idea if they fit together now. After all, they may have changed so much in the last 12 years that they have nothing in common with each other anymore.
It's not a long book, but somehow it dragged on for me. I could barely finish it. And to tell you the truth, at least once I thought about not finishing it at all. I also admit that at the end I skipped the last few chapters from the past. I was really tired of them. It was definitely not a book for me. Although I guess some might enjoy it.
Very sexy. Relatable narrator. Tension between 2 brothers a the girl next door. By the end I was almost cheering for the older bro.
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