“It’s how I learned that the families we make are as significant as the ones we’re born into. It’s how I learned that the greatest loves are not always romances.”
This Summer Will Be Different
Carley Fortune keeps coming for my heart. Her romance novels are really emotional reads, but they are amazing, and I am completely devoted to reading all of them now. This Summer Will Be Different is a gorgeous novel set in both Toronto and (mainly) Prince Edward Island. Cue the Anne of Green Gables corner of my heart.
Five years ago, Lucy went to PEI with her best friend Bridget. But before Bridget got there, Lucy met a man named Felix and had a very quick fling, not realizing he was Birdget’s brother. And falling in love with Felix is not allowed. Felix had already been through a bad breakup and that had cost Bridget a really close friend. Lucy knows this so she plans to steer clear of Felix romantically forever. But each summer or holiday she goes home with Bridget to visit PEI, she can’t deny the way Felix makes her feel and it becomes harder and harder to deny what is blooming inside her heart.
But five years of the trips pass, and Lucy spends most of her time working as a florist in Toronto. She puts all of her focus into her job and takes very little time for herself. The week before Bridget is supposed to get married, she takes off to PEI and Lucy follows her to make sure she is okay. But she will have to come to terms with seeing Felix again and unpacking what he means to her, and also the future she wants for herself.
Could a book be any more atmospheric?? I have loved Prince Edward Island my whole life (though I have never been there) from a childhood rooted in a deep love of Anne of Green Gables. There are nods to those books here too, which I loved. This book is utterly gorgeous. The relationships between all the characters is incredible. I love when romance novels balance female friendships too, and Lucy and Bridget are kindred spirits and sisters in every way it truly matters.
If you want to read a romance with the forbidden romance trope with a little hint toward second chance romance in one of the most gorgeous settings imaginable, this is not one you want to miss.
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