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Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
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. 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.
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.
For 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. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. 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.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
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- ISBN: 9780593438541
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- ISBN: 9780593438541
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Starred review from March 7, 2022
Old wounds finally get a chance to heal in Fortune’s spectacular debut. At 13 years old, Persephone “Percy” Fraser spends the summer in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, aka “cottage country,” where she meets Sam and Charlie Florek. Percy and Sam form an immediate bond and, over the next six summers, fall deeply in love—until everything goes horribly wrong. Fortune teases out what happened during that last summer to tear Percy and Sam apart as Percy, now 30, returns to Barry’s Bay for the first time in 12 years to attend the funeral of Sam and Charlie’s mother, a woman she adored. She and Sam, who haven’t spoken since things ended, must finally confront their history and find the courage to accept responsibility for their mistakes. Alternating between the past and present, the story flawlessly conveys the lovers’ growth both together and apart, and the summery setting provides an idyllic backdrop to their path back to each other. Centered on redemption and forgiveness, this sweeping, heartfelt romance proves impossible to put down. Agent: Taylor Haggerty, Root Literary. -
March 1, 2022
DEBUT Split between "then" and "now," Fortune's debut follows the summer exploits of teenagers Persephone and Sam interspersed with their reconnection more than a decade later at Sam's mother's funeral. Their fast friendship and burgeoning romantic relationship as teens gives weight and an underlying charge to their reunion, but most of the novel's many conflicts could have been solved if she and he just had honest conversations. While the author eventually reveals the reason why Persephone and Sam stopped speaking, the payoff is drawn out and, ultimately, uninspired. Set against gorgeous scenery and closely following two people as they fall in and out of love, this novel works best when its leads are dramatic, hormone-filled teens but is overblown when they're adults. VERDICT Readers seeking a drama-free romance should look elsewhere, but hurt/comfort fans will eat it up. Recommended for those who like Sarah Dessen and K. A. Tucker.--Rachel Alexander
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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April 1, 2022
Fortune's debut novel is a nostalgic love story of two childhood friends turned lovers who lost touch 12 years ago. After she became a social outcast, Percy's parents purchased a summer home to find some peace for their daughter. Their neighbors were a single mother named Sue and her two sons, Sam and Charlie. Sam was Percy's age, and they became friends instantly, spending entire summers together. Readers dive back and forth from past to present to get a first-hand account of the love between Sam and Percy and the grave mistakes that drove them apart. After hearing about the death of Sam and Charlie's mom, Percy returns and is forced to deal with telling Sam the truth about why she refused to marry him years ago. Even though the years kept them apart, the moment Sam and Percy see each other again the love between them is ignited. Readers who enjoy a steamy love story in the mold of Jill Shalvis won't be able to put this novel down.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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