One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
So, I did not like the first book in this series at all. I was frankly…horrified by the reveal and even the ending. Maybe because I thought the character of Charlie was treated like the bad guy, but I honestly felt like he was the only one who saw Percy for who she was and what she could offer. Do not get me started on Sam’s mess. Now in book #2, it’s a few years after Sam and Percy have married, and this is finally […]
This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune
Honestly it wasn’t a bad book, just beyond boring. I think I would have liked this more if Fortune had dealt with the insane amount of codependency the lead character (Lucy) had with her best friend (Bridget). I also won’t lie, with how Lucy and Bridget were both acting, I kept thinking we may get best friends declaring they were in love with each other at some point. It just felt off-putting that Lucy really seemed to have no idea how to live her life […]
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
“Every Summer After” follows Persephone (Percy) Fraser who is living, but not happy. She still is coming to grips that none of her relationships matter to her, and that the one boy she fell for, Sam, she hasn’t spoken to in about 12 years. When Percy gets a phone call letting her know that Sam’s mother has passed away, she decides to return to the lake she hasn’t been to in years. And with that trip back to the lake, she has to come to […]
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
(NOTE: I wrote this review in August and then forgot to post it! See text below about having a busy summer….) I’ve been having an issue with my Libby queue lately: all of the books I’m most excited about reading become available at the same time, and then I get caught up in all of the hubbub of summer, then I get halfway through just ONE of the books I’ve been waiting on before they all go back into my queue. After a few years […]
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
On the surface this should be my jam–old lovers reunited is one of my favorite tropes, and even more so when there’s a friendship at play as well. Plus small town dynamics? All the way! But I had many issues with Persephone and how she’s written as a character, which is to say she’s just a foil for Fortune to hang a romance on. Nothing makes sense about how she ditches her best friend (a Token Character of Color, to boot) in the Big City […]
