Every Summer After

Really good book!

5 Star... this was so well written and gave me all the emotions!

my first carley fortune book & it wasn’t so bad. I found the pacing to be extremely slow and figured out what secret was being withheld (that wasn’t revealed until the final like 30-40 pages)😭 like miss girl just tell me the hot goss so i know what all the fanfare is about. i promise i wont tell the main character. this was a beautiful love story tho… it just didn’t do much for me

Por el final más inoperante que existe bajo a 4 estrellas, pero todo el desarrollo del libro y el sentido de la historia muy buenos

Every Summer After broke my heart several times, made me smile through the tears, and confirmed Carley Fortune as an automatic purchase author for me. Her writing is romantic and devastating. Carley Fortune understands how to make first love feel enormous, regret feel unbearable, and forgiveness feel worth waiting twelve years to receive. Percy Fraser meets Sam Florek during her first summer at her family’s cottage in Barry’s Bay. Books, swimming, horror movies, and long days at the Florek family restaurant turn their friendship into the defining relationship of their lives. Fortune fills those summers with so much warmth and nostalgia that I could almost feel the lake water and sunshine on my skin. Percy, Sam, Charlie, Sue, and Delilah all became people I cared about because of their imperfections. They were shaped by love, grief, insecurity, and the recklessness of youth. Percy and Sam fall in love before either of them understands themselves. Sam spends so much time planning their future that he fails to recognize how lonely Percy feels in the present. He believes their love is secure enough to survive distance, pressure, and uncertainty. Percy does not share that confidence. Her insecurity convinces her that Sam no longer wants her. One impulsive decision destroys the future they both assumed they would share. Fortune never excuses the betrayal, but she makes the emotions leading toward it understandable. Percy is frightened, lonely, and desperate to feel wanted. Charlie has spent years testing boundaries and shooting his shot. Their choices are selfish and deeply hurtful, but they come from damaged people making desperate decisions. I hated what happened while understanding exactly how they reached that moment. Twelve years later, loss brings Percy back to Barry’s Bay and places her face-to-face with the man she never stopped loving. Sam understands that repairing their connection requires more than forgiveness. He needs Percy to believe that he still wants her. He takes that responsibility very seriously. Their adult bedroom chemistry had me fanning myself through several scenes. His confidence, attention, and declaration that Percy made him ravenous nearly finished me. Every woman wants to feel desired. Sam makes sure Percy never doubts his hunger for her. Sam knows Percy’s fears, dreams, habits, and insecurities. Percy knows the boy he was and the man he hoped to become. Watching them rediscover each other as adults felt intimate far beyond the bedroom. Every Summer After delivers lakefront nostalgia, flawed characters, passionate romance, complicated friendship, and enough heartbreak to keep tissues nearby. Carley Fortune writes love stories that tear open your heart and then carefully put it back together. I adored Sam, Percy, and every messy summer that brought them back to each other.