Same Time Next Summer is perfect for anyone looking for a fun, heartfelt story about love and self-discovery. It’s the kind of book you can easily get lost in during a lazy afternoon. Highly recommend for your summer reading list!

🩷new release summer romance
🩷second chance love
🩷dual timeline
🩷east coast beach setting

📖Sam has the perfect life & finance and is visiting her familys beach house in Long Island to pick out a place for her wedding. When her first love and first heartbreak, Wyatt shows up so do the memories of their teenager summers spent together. Is Sam’s life as perfect as she would like?

I LOVED:

💛the dual time line, I love flashbacks and seeing how the present day relates to the past
💛the Long Island setting had me dreaming of a summer on the beach
💛Wyatt and his surfer chilled vibes however some of his decisions needed a little more explanation in my opinion. (hard to go into without spoilers so head to my DMs if you want more info!)

🏖️Same Time Next Summer was a great book to kick off the summer reading. If you enjoyed Ever Summer After & Love And Other Words this one is for you!

Thank you @hodderbooks for my #gifted copy.

I’m a sucker for second chance romances, especially when it’s a first love with flashbacks story. So I thoroughly enjoyed this!

I loved how the idea of your first love was handled. How intense the emotions are, how it feels like an addiction, and how it can be the most soul destroying thing when it ends. It felt very raw and real.

I also was swooning over Wyatt’s career moves. No spoilers, but no wonder Sam became even more confused about her emotions after that “Sam, I am” revelation!

I really enjoyed the individual journeys Sam and Wyatt went on too. Sam learned to be true to herself and not bury herself in a life that forces her to disappear to please someone else. Wyatt recognised that he was enough and his voice was enough in more ways than one.

A total treat - you’ll love this if you loved ‘Every Summer After’ and ‘Love and Other Words’.

Thank you for the DRC!

Growing up, Sam and Wyatt spent every summer living next door to each other on Long Island where they embraced beach life. After Wyatt breaks her heart, she avoids visiting her family over the summer. The Sam we meet at the beginning of Same Time Next Summer is a very different person to her younger self. There are lots of flashbacks that show how much she has changed.
Now planning her wedding to Jack, she has no choice and plans to stay for as short a time as possible, but it is obvious how much pleasure she has been denying herself as she starts to relax and enjoy living by the beach again. Jack seems very into rules and control, and likes having things his own way. Coincidentally, Wyatt is also back for the summer and Sam cannot avoid him for long. I struggled to believe that she has never looked him up on the internet, and has no idea if his musical career has taken off or not.
I did not enjoy this as much as her previous book Nora Goes Off Script, but that did set the bar pretty high. Same Time Next Summer is still a very enjoyable read, but perhaps relies too much on backstory at the expense of the here and now. The characters are well drawn and believable, and the Long Island setting just makes you want to go and live at the beach. Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley for a digital copy to review.

I somehow have this book downloaded twice. I provided feedback on a prior review. LOVED IT and will continue to read/request as many books as possible from Annabel Monaghan.

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.

It’s a story of Sam and Wyatt - childhood sweethearts that have a strong connection to a certain place and a pull towards each other.

I loved Nora Goes Off Script so I was really excited for the next book. However, this was a little predictable and disappointing for me. I didn’t manage to connect with the characters as the outcome was really obvious. It was a sweet and easy read but unfortunately not one that I feel I will remember for long.

Second chance romance isn’t always my favourite trope but I enjoyed this book. It also included dual POV, dual timelines and childhood friends to lovers. Sam’s journey of rediscovering herself was also an interesting addition to the storyline. This is definitely a great easy summer romcom but be warned it will have you craving a trip to the beach!

A sparkling follow up, this book was everything I wanted it to be and more. I’ll never tire of summer romance novels and this is why- the vibes are truly immaculate. This is everything I love about second chance romance.

Annabel Monaghan has done it again. I adored her previous book, Nora Goes off Script, and Same Time Next Summer did not disappoint. A great summer romcom with real heart - I will be recommending and handselling to all fans of Emily Henry!

Unfortunately I didn't love this book, I found it a little too predictable and found the characters annoying...

I really loved Annabel’s writing style and I was really intrigued at the start of the book. I loved Wyatt, he ticked all of the right boxes. I found myself a little bit bored while reading, I feel like the plot dragged out a little too long and I just wanted some information a bit quicker but I am quite impatient. I didn’t really love the FMC so it made it quite difficult to be fully invested. I think if you’re in the right mood, this book could absolutely be for you

I really loved Annabel Monaghan's "Nora goes off script" so was delighted that NetGalley gave me the opportunity to read and review her follow up. , I found the descriptions of locations really wonderful, she creates a nostalgia in the way she writes about summers past, she captures the emotions of Sam and Wyatt at different ages and the chemistry between them is evident both through their characters and the people around them - everyone can sense it.

Whilst I didn't feel quite as absorbed as I did when I read Nora (I think I liked that she was a mum), I really enjoyed this book and would absolutely recommend it.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Hodder and Stoughton for providing an Advance Reader’s Copy. The below opinions are my own.

Same Time Next Summer is a summer romance which takes place in a beach town in Long Island. Sam( Samantha) visits her parents’ home along with her fiancé Jack. She comes face to face with her childhood love,Wyatt. Wyatt and Sam spent their childhood together as friends and became lovers when they were teenagers. They break off while they’re 17 and now Sam starts wondering about herself and her love story.

The book alternates between the past and the present. This is a second chance romance and Sam’s character arc was done really well. From being a mere caricature at the beginning to later taking stock of her own feelings,it was good to see her rediscover herself. This book felt a bit more YA than the author’s previous book. There were some moments when I felt a bit frustrated and it was a bit unbelievable that Sam had never googled Wyatt all those years. The side characters were written well and the banter was fun to read about.

While this wasn’t quite upto the mark of Nora Goes Off Script,I ultimately did enjoy this one too.

This is a classic rom com, looking back on your first love and wondering what might have been, whilst congratulating yourself for being more grown up now. Sam is going back to Long Island with her grown up fiance Jack to scope it out for their upcoming wedding. She has been trying to avoid her first love Wyatt but that's not possible as their families are still connected as neighbours. Once Sam's seen Wyatt- boom -those pesky adolescent love feelings come back.... but she knows its not what she really wants, or is it?

From that paragraph, you can probably guess where the story goes, but the rekindling and quashing of the love story is deftly handled and leaves you rooting for Sam and her happiness.

I LOVED this book!! If you loved "Every Summer After" by Carley Fortune as I did, you'll love this one as well! It has very similar vibes, and I knew it would be a 5* read for me from very early on.

Here are some differences between this book and ESA:
- There's a TREEHOUSE in this one!!! (I've always loved treehouses, despite never actually having one.)
- It's based in the USA rather than Canada (One of the many reasons I love Carley Fortunes books - a rare Canadian setting!)
- They swim in an ocean rather than a lake.
- The conflict made a lot more sense to me than ESA

I do wonder why they chose this title, rather than "Meet Me at the Beach" which is said a few times throughout the book, but I'm happy with this title too.

I did kind of have to "just go with it" and suspend reality a bit for one part which I really don't think would happen in real life, but it was such a great summer read that makes up for it!

I loved reading this one. I just love this kind of books.
4 stars read for me. I love this author snd her writing style.
Thanks to netgally for this arc.

Great summer read I really enjoyed

I want to be care free living at the beach just like same

#netgalley #sametimenextsummer

Sam and Jack are due to get married in October and although conventional Jack would prefer to get married in Manhattan the pair head to Sam’s parents beachside holiday home on Long Island to look at an alternative wedding venue. However, Sam learns that Wyatt, her ex who broke her heart aged 17 is also there, next door, just as in their teens.
Has Sam really gotten over Wyatt? What really happened?
I was so engrossed in this book. Loved the little surprises in the book. Such a well written a book. A must read this summer

I enjoyed Nora Goes Off Script, so was keen to read this.

This is an easy summer read. However I thought it rather dragged on and I found Sam hard to like at times, she seemed rather spoilt.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review.