I enjoyed this fun summer read! I love seeing the past story play out and how it connects and weaves into the present. Love stories with history between the pair always gets me! My complaint is that it did feel a little fast for me for forgiveness and reconnection, I think it would have added to the story to see more time to earn back trust. Still, I really enjoyed this book and felt immersed in the town, the main leads and supporting characters! I’m now going to see what else the author has written and devour it!

It comes in waves is a second chance, friends to lovers sapphic romance that starts when the main characters Breezy (Tanya) and Juliette are 13 years old. Breezy is a townie she has lived in Coral Bay her whole life and Juliette is a tourist her and her parents visit Coral Bay on vacation during the summer. When the two first meet there is an immediate connection between them and they become friends. Every summer they are together brings them closer and closer together until their feelings for each other start to change into something more. But Juliette is under a lot of pressure from her parents and she leaves Coral Bay suddenly and they lose contact. This story takes place over many years, the first half when they are teenagers and the second half is when they are adults and Juliette returns to Coral Bay. I really enjoyed this book the characters were likeable, the story was good and there’s a little bit of spice. It was a nice summer read. 😊

Thank you to Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for the ARC.

Oh my god, I love this book. This is by far my favorite sapphic romance I’ve read so far. This book is the kind that you stay up all night devouring because you can’t put it down.

This is a second chance at love, friends to lovers story that starts with Breezy and Juliette as teenagers. One a townie of a small beach town and one a tourist who are drawn to each other immediately. They have to navigate the ups and downs of a friendship from a distance and of Juliette’s expectations and control from her rich real estate mogul parents who have started to buy up pieces of property in the small town moving it toward commercialization. Years later, Juliette returns to the town and finds this quiet town and all the people she loved is still everything she loved it for, the only problem is that Breezy is still recovering from the heartbreak years earlier.

This book has so much special about it. From the author paints a picture so easy to imagine, to the special friendships found in it, to the way you fall in love with this little town and root for it, and most importantly the way that you fall for Juliette and Breezy’s relationship, get your heart broken and then it gets mended back together. It really isn’t often that I find a book I can stay up all night devouring, but this is definitely it. 5 stars.

This was a lovely and heartfelt story. I loved both main characters so much and the setting was fantastic. Full of angst and heartbreak and tension and so much love.

This was for sure a binge read. I loved the 2nd chance romance between the townie Breezy (Tanya) and the tourist Juliet (Jules). Really interesting to get the vibes from a southern coastal town and a great love story throughout the years of their interactions. The book is fantastic and I so enjoyed reading it.

When I have the choice of which book to read next, I almost always go for a second-chance love story!
I love the uncertainty, the heartache, the longing, the deeply buried love that finally comes to light again.
All of this makes it an enormous reading pleasure for me and when the characters are all as wonderful and lovable as in this book, there is nothing better.
Well, hot scenes are always the icing on the cake and there are a quiet few of them in this wonderfully written love story of Jules and Breezy!
It's small town and big emotions from a teenage age onwards.
They get to know each other very early in life and are repeatedly separated.
Jules doesn't live in Coral Bay like Breezy.
Her family is wealthy and in the construction industry and just tourists, or so it seems when they first meet in Coral Bay at Crabby's, the restaurant/bar where Breezy works. Even though they are best friends from then on and feel more for each other, it takes a while to admit it.
And teenagers' lives are determined by their parents. That's why this story is one that is associated with a lot of pain.
You feel for Breezy, who lost her heart to Juliette Peralta from the very first moment and never gets it back.
Time, decisions - the right and the wrong ones make life difficult for everyone.
The path to a dreamed-of happy ending and life together is made extremely difficult for them, but nonetheless they get my beloved happy ending.
Thank you to the author for this wonderful love story and also for the ARC! My thanks also to Bold Stroke Books and Netgalley!

An adorable summer sapphic love story. Easy, afternoon read - which characters that were likable without being over the top or annoying. I didn't feel as connected to the start of the story, when they were teenagers, but had major warm feelings for the adult characters, and their stories.

Super sexy, super fun.