Description
Title: Every Summer After
Author: Carley Fortune
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 2022
Summary:
Every Summer After is an nostalgic, heartwarming romance that spans six years of summers and one momentous weekend. The story follows Persephone “Percy” Fraser, who spent every summer at her family’s lake house in Barry’s Bay, where she met and became inseparable from Sam Florek, the boy next door. Their deep friendship gradually blossoms into love but, one pivotal mistake shatters their bond.
Twelve years have elapsed, and Percy comes back to Barry’s Bay for a funeral. Here, she meets Sam. The novel oscillates between their shared past and the present reunion as the two are compelled to drag up again all the unresolved feelings and the pain attached to their memories that loiter around their lives and which were kept outside their conscious world. It is a story of second chances, forgiveness, and rediscovering lost love.
Themes:
First Love and Heartbreak: The novel discusses the deep things associated with first love, happiness, and the pain of losing it.
Friendship and Family: The friendship of Percy and Sam is at the center but movedly focuses on how such meaningful relationships shape us over time.
Forgiveness and Redemption: In the book, we know how an individual develops and heals or comes to forgive past mistakes on the journey of moving onward.
Nostalgia and Memory: Alternate timelines first presentation does convey the bitter-sweet nature of memories because Percy considers her past summers and their impact on life forever.
Style:
Let me give you some more information about what it is that Carley Fortune does well to draw readers in through the emotional charges that inhabit her writing, and draw you, too, into the lives of the characters. She gives exquisite settings for summer and tender moments. The dual timeline structure will draw you in, as Percy and Sam’s history slowly reveals itself, keeping hope alive for their future.
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