📖Her Last Summer
📝Nina Manning
🗓️ 30 May 2024
✍️Boldwood Books

I like Nina Mannings book a lot. They’re easy to read and usually great page turners. I enjoyed her latest one a lot as well.
You always notice that she does a lot of research. Here you see the impact of trauma and Nina handles it beautifully.

Novels about the rich and famous are my kryptonite, especially when it also focuses on the darker sides of the game. But this is not (only) a book about trauma, it’s a fast paced thriller that makes you desperate to k ow what happens next!

Rey is traumatised if water. A tragic summer day is still haunting her. If she wants to get her career back on track, she has to take this new role. It involves swimming in the water. The summer is catching up with her again. Can she survive?

⭐️Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for my advanced copy. All opinions are my own, I was under no obligation to review.

Thank you to Netgallery and the publisher for this ARC. The publication date is the 30th May. This book had an explosive plot with suspenseful twists and turns that kept me gripped to my kindle. It was pacy with many nail- biting moments throughout that kept me on my toes!

I loved and would highly recommend everyone read this book just in time for summer! Nina Manning does it again with another addictive book. My favourite character was Rey.

I was intrigued by this story, but not enough to keep my focus. I couldn’t stick with it for the entirety of the book. I do love a good book that flips back and forth through present and past

Her Last Summer is cleverly written and pulls you right in immediately. Nina Manning does a nice job of going back and fourth between the past and present so that the reader gets a clear picture of the traumatic events that transpired.

This book is definitely a page turner and will keep you guessing until the very end.

Rey has not felt the same about swimming since her sister disappeared while on vacation years ago. When she is given a new role, she is scared when she finds out she must be able to swim. In the meantime, her other sister comes forward with a newspaper article and new information. The book goes between now and the vacation in which Franny disappears. When Scarlett approaches Rey and spills all she knows, Rey finally understands it's not her fault her sister went missing. The ending was not what I expected at all. Rey feels much better about swimming once she knows the truth.

actress rey levine opens the book by talking about her experiences struggling in the industry and dealing with the loss of her sister which is supposedly her fault …..

the writer has clearly researched how trauma can truly change a person. the writing is so powerful and accurate, a lot of people will be able to relate to rey.

from the get go the book hooks you in. as the plot unravels, the book swerves through the past as well as the present so you cannot help but get invested in rey’s story.

the story shows the prices of fame, how the paparazzi can haunt a person, how family generational trauma can linger and how trauma can truly take a hold on someone.

Thank you @netgalley and @boldbookclub for the eARC of Her Last Summer by @ninamanningauthor in exchange for an honest review

📖📖 Book Review 📖📖 Rey has the opportunity for her big comeback when she is offered a dream role…the dilemma lies in the need for her to get back in the water for the first time in fifteen years. Trauma and grief can do a number on our psyche and Rey knows this all too well. A summer day gone horribly wrong haunts her and even when she gets back in the water to film this movie, she cannot escape from the memories and guilt from the past. Her Last Summer is beautifully written and fluctuates between the present and that fateful summer, providing an absolutely gripping read! This book will have you turning pages and wondering if we can move on when we hold so many secrets and regret deep inside?

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Review is posted on Goodreads and will be on Instagram ahead of the publication date!