Friends who fall in love may seem like a simple plot, but as Shakespeare told us, “the course of true love never did run smooth”.

It’s my favorite kind of love story: simple but with complicated outcomes. My heart warmed, broke, and soared multiple times while reading this love story. Reading Every Summer After was a menagerie of emotions. I’m still not sure with what magic Carley Fortune has wrought this second chance summery goodness, but she made the best-friends-to-lovers story new again! While it’s a plot that isn’t unfamiliar-it’s even one I’ve read many variations of before-I greedily devoured every word. My thoughtsĮvery Summer After by Carley Fortune has been one of my most-anticipated reads of the year and I felt confident it would be a novel I would love in all its angsty glory. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever. 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. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. 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.įor 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.

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. 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.

Every summer after by carley fortune