Every Summer After
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW THE PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES EVERY YEAR AFTER
"A radiant debut." — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life
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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Editor's Take
Readers mostly praise Every Summer After for its nostalgic summer setting, emotional reunion arc, and strong chemistry between Percy and Sam. Review blogs and Goodreads-style reviews often call it sweeping, atmospheric, and an easy summer read.
Common criticisms show up too: some readers find the plot predictable, the pacing uneven, and the central twist frustrating or too similar to other romances. Several reviewers on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and independent review blogs mention that the characters can feel immature or repetitive at times.
Overall, the strongest theme across customer opinions is that this is a highly readable, sentimental romance that works best for readers who like second-chance love stories, lake-town nostalgia, and a bittersweet tone.
- Amazon reviewers and Goodreads readers tend to be split between “very moving” and “overhyped/predictable.”
- Reddit and forum-style comments commonly compare it to other summer romance books and debate the twist.
- Review blogs often highlight the vivid setting and emotional payoff, even when they note flaws in pacing or character choices.
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Specifications
| Illustrated | No |
Product Details
| Publisher | Berkley |
| Publication date | May 10, 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 336 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0593438531 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593438534 |
| Item Weight | 12.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.49 x 0.74 x 8.19 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #226 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #18 in Contemporary Women Fiction #46 in Contemporary Romance (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (104,343) |