ARC REVIEW - One last summer by Kate Spencer - 4⭐️/0.5🌶️

Tropes:
-rivals to lovers
-second chance romance
-0.5🌶️

What was there not to love about this cute summer read? It was cute, heartwarming but with a dash of quarter life crisis and romance that hit me harder than I was expecting it to.

Not knowing what you want to do with your life and not living the life you expected is a tough pill to swallow but it was very well approached and I related to Clara so much. As much as I liked the romantic relationship in this book, I specially LOVED the friendships, characters and personal growth! I honestly loved this book, very well written and easy-to-read, and would recommend to anyone that also enjoys Emily Henry’s books. Perfect to add to your summer TBR!

Thank you Netgalley and Pan Macmillan for the advanced copy of One Last Summer in exchange for an honest review!

A real feel good nostalgic read of summers gone by and how those years affect our adult selves. I really loved this book.

This book brought back so many great memories for me and reading this gave me such a great and happy feeling. The writing is great and I absolutely love all the characters. Would definitely recommend reading this book, it's 5 stars from me. Love it.

Thank you NetGalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

“Don’t worry, Millen,” he said. “I’ll happily take second place if it means you finish first.”

I found this book to be enjoyable but tbh, I did not like it as much as I liked In A New York Minute. Still, I liked the overall vibe of this book. The camp setting and the friend group was perfect and I loved the last few chapters of the book but the beginning was very slow and boring. Clara was pessimistic and Mack was still stuck in the past. Both of them were immature and I couldn't relate with it because they were supposed to be 35 but still acted like they were teenagers. So it kinda threw me off. The only bonus points I can give would be for the last half and the epilogue. So while this book was fun, it wasn't anything extraordinary as I had imagined after reading the blurb.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review

This will be a lovely summer read. I enjoyed this story overall, but I did find myself drifting in places, I just didn’t fully get Clara for parts, I loved in a New York minute, so expected to really love this as well, maybe I went in with too high expectations, I don’t know, and I hope others will love this more. It has good bones; the friends make this story for me. They did a lot of the work for the story, and I really enjoyed that aspect. Pick this up if you fancy a nice summer story, with a little romance, but a good story.

I enjoyed the setting of this story the most I think, it sounded absolutely idyllic. Beautiful lake and quality time with friends. I empathised with all the characters in this- those feeling guilty at drifting from friends and the friends that felt ghosted or ignored at times. Mack was dreamy, Sam was an amazing friend, Lydia was barmy! A throughly enjoyable read.

This is a bittersweet tear jerker. A beautiful group of friends who are all growing older and sometimes wiser, and who use their week at the lake to jostle and fight and remember the good times. Mack and Clara are clearly each other’s person and the ups and downs is lovely to read, along with their discoveries, fears and hurts. A good food fight goes some way to clear the air, a long drive and a baby does a lot too. The friends are not all sugar sweet and bicker and fight and over share, however they are all real and well described and got hold of me.