Same Time Next Summer Paperback – 6 Jun. 2023

I think this story had a bit of everything – first love, heartbreak, redemption. Loved the characters, particularly Wyatt. Sam took a while to find herself but I did want her to get what she wanted. The sub-plot about the quirky parents was an interesting twist on the betrayal front. Really enjoyed the summer vibe and found it hard to put down. Highly recommended.

Argh! I read this with about 10 other books and forgot to write a review.Sam and Wyatt were childhood sweethearts whose families spent every summer on Long Island at their beach houses. Then 'the thing' happened, they split up and Sam has been avoiding the Beach House ever since, choosing instead to spend all year in New York. However, her fiancé Jack is keen to plan their wedding at a local venue, over Sam's objections, and has insisted that they spend a few weeks at the Beach House, not realising how different everything will be.Practically the first thing that happens is that Sam runs into Wyatt again, apparently he is organising a music festival in town. As the weeks wile away, Sam recalls her bygone summers as a child with Wyatt and begins to compare and contrast Wyatt's easy-going, genuine kindness with Jack's (and his family's) snobbery.Sam is going to have to decide whether she chooses the life she and Jack have created, her job, her apartment, the swanky wedding, etc or the life she had before.I really enjoyed this and it is only now, several weeks later that I realise it has very similar bones to Sweet Home Alabama - totally different story but same (sort of) plot - IDK if that makes any sense? Anyhoo, that is still one of my favourite films so having a novel with the same vibes is a good thing in my book.

A great summer read. I enjoyed the story and the book wasn’t too long like some.

This was everything I wanted to read. Heartbreak. Love again. Friendship to lovers. Being happy but not truly just finding a safe place. I read this book in a few days.

I loved Nora Goes Off Script; it's one of my favourite romance novels, so Same Time Next Summer was an absolute must-buy. I'll admit, I started off feeling frustrated. I wanted to be sucked in. And yet. No sooner had the story begun, great swathes of back story was introduced, and at times I found it heavy-going, partly because it felt like a lot of 'telling' over 'showing'. However, once we got back to 'Now' I felt the story picked up again and I was racing to get to the end. In Wyatt I was hoping for Leo Vance v.2.0, and whilst Wyatt wasn't quite as swoony, I warmed to his salt-of-the-earth, surfer charm. Sam is very likeable and you really want her to get her HEA after all that painful heartache.Lovely characters (Jack was perfectly loathsome), a lovely setting (made me want to visit Long Island), this is a great read to soak up the sun with on the beach, on your sun lounger, cocktail in hand. And if you haven't read Nora Goes Off Script yet, what have you being doing with your life?!

An easy read though entirely predictable. Nothing really happened and I didn’t really warm to Sam or Wyatt, particularly Sam. That being said, I did finish the book and I was looking for an undemanding read at the time.

This book has some great reviews he se why I have bought it . Saving it for holidays tho

I've inhaled this book. The author's style perfectly captures the summer, the emotions, the passing of time in the story.The plot is interesting, but I must say that both the storyline (the premise of the first teenage love and the years-long fallout) and the alternating style of now-then (which isn't new, but still) really reminded me of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, yet another good book thay came 5 years prior to this one.The similarity is the only reason it's 4 and not 5 stars.