Until Next Summer ARC Review!

Title - Until Next Summer

Author - Ali Brady

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spice 🌶 - 3

scare 😱 - .5

plot 📖 - 4

characters 🧍- 5

stars ⭐ - 5

What a great read! Until Next Summer has it all: romance, friendship, nostalgia, spice, humor, serious moments, and even a touch of suspense. The book revolves around a summer camp and its director, Jessie. When it comes to light that the camp and all the surrounding land will be sold Jessie has to grapple with the fact that this will be her last summer.

The thing I liked about the book is that it made me feel things. I actually laughed out loud and I balled like a baby (if you read the book you'll know where that happened and you'll probably cry too). I also (could be totally off base here) think there were some nods to the summer camp portion of The Parent Trap movie.

There were a few things that I think were lacking in the book. First off, there was so much back and forth between characters (view spoiler) that just irked me. The other is that I was not immersed in a setting. The camp was obviously breathtaking and transformative. The buildings are over a hundred years old, there's a lake, and various other hidden gems on the property. You are told all of these things exist but you don't get to experience them along with the characters. I wish they would've put the same detail in the setting as in the sex scenes.

Until Next Summer is very character and dialogue driven and as much as I want to say the setting was lacking and that bugged me, the characters and dialogue more than made up for it. It is the
P E R F E C T summer read. I didn't even go to camp and I felt the wave of nostalgia that floated through the book. Definitely recommend!

❤ Les

P.S. 

Tropes - enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine, and forced proximity 

Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

View my review on Goodreads here.

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