Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan – 320 pages
ARC from GP Putnam and Netgalley for an honest review
Book Blurb:
Same Time Next Summer: Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a stable job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?
Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed–Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice. Is her heart worth the risk?
My Review: 4 stars
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan is like taking a vacation to the Long Island beaches and you, the reader, are the fly on the wall. This book is a moving romance about your first and truest love versus the man you’re engaged to.
I have a feeling that many readers can relate to the itch of always comparing the new guy with the first guy. Even if you can’t relate to that, Monaghan will put you in place and time and the story will wash over you like the waves of the ocean. My happy place is by the ocean so having a main character love the ocean and the sand between her toes was ideal.
This book reads quickly and the romance level of the book was just right. Of course, it was predictable that the new guy, Jack was perfect on paper only and the ex boyfriend, Wyatt, was perfect on paper and in real life. This was an enjoyable summertime romance and I think it belongs in everyone’s pool bag!
Quotes I liked:
Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future.”
“The limitlessness of the ocean beyond the horizon exhilarates me. I can’t see what’s just past that line, and if I swam out to it, there would be another line I wouldn’t be able to see past. I just know that what’s ahead of me is the rest of my life, starting with tonight. And then tomorrow.”
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