I loved this book! It was the perfect read while on our yearly beach vacation. I definatly followed the "Beach Rule" of alwasy putting an umbrella in your drink. I really like a dual POV with romanaces as you get to know quickly how the main characters really feel about each other without it being one sided. I was quick to grab this after enjoying Nora off Script so much.

I adored this book! It shows first loves and first heartbreaks perfectly. I can’t wait to read more from this author. She will be an auto-buy from now on.

Thank you NetGalley and Putnam for the eARC! Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan is a fabulous summer read! Fast-paced, warm, wholesome (sorry ladies, very minimal spice in this one) – I breezed through this on the beaches of the cape last week, and highly recommend this experience from a beach chair, porch, or summer dwelling of your choosing!

This story follows Sam Holloway, a buttoned-up HR consultant who adored her summers at the beach in long island growing up, but has spent the last 13 years avoiding it due to a heart wrenching breakup with her teenage love, and beach town neighbor, Wyatt Pope.

Now 31 and engaged, Sam’s life is seemingly perfect until feelings and questions are stirred up when she and her fiancé jack go back to the long island shore to check out a wedding venue, & find Wyatt is back staying in the house next door.

There’s so much to love about this story—amazing imagery, teenage love, second chance romance, a lovely cast of characters—but I will say I struggled to connect at times, especially with the lookback chapters on Wyatt and Sam’s relationship; perhaps because of the third person POV, or the pace of the writing, it felt rushed and too high level. I’ll also say I had an uncorrected proof so that could be part of it! However, I did feel like the present-day chapters were more immersive, and I resonated with Sam’s first person POV more. Sam is witty and likable as a narrator IMO, even if she does get a tad sketchy relationship wise (lol).

Sam comes from a family of artists, and SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER is a beautiful tribute to the power of creativity, of following your instincts and breaking away from the confines of societal expectations. Writers, artists, musicians and creatives galore will adore this story!

Loved it!! Such a good summer read. Also loved the dynamic of the fiance not understanding the family and how she was returning to her routes and began to feel more connected to it. Wished we had just a smidge more of the past.

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan might be my favorite Summer read so far!

For all of the rom-com lovers out there, this book is like the movie Sweet Home Alabama and the series The Summer I Turned Pretty had a baby. A delightful, nostalgic, swoony baby.

Sam has the perfect life - a challenging yet rewarding career in Manhattan, a happy relationship with her fiance Jack, and she's in the middle of planning their wedding in a few months time. Her parents have a beach house in Long Island, where she has spent every summer of her childhood, and they convince the couple to come visit and tour a possible venue nearby for the wedding.

Record scratch - the only thing is that Sam has not been out to the beach house in over a decade because of the painful reminders that she has been avoiding of her first love. Wyatt, the boy at the beach house next door who she grew up with and fell head over heels for when they were teenagers. And wouldn't you know it, Wyatt is staying at his family's house for the whole summer, and Sam can't help but reminisce on all of her memories with the very first boy that she gave her heart to.

Told in a dual POV in alternating timelines, Sam and Wyatt's story comes to life and we finally learn about the breakup and the traumatic event that turned their families against each other. As they spend more time together in the place where they grew up and eventually fell in love, Sam starts questioning her upcoming marriage, career choices, and the life that she's built in Manhattan. Is there more to life than stability and just getting by with a man who doesn't really know who she is? Can she and Wyatt get past their traumatic falling out and forgive each other?

I loved everything about this book - the childhood nostalgia, the atmospheric backdrop, the growth and maturity between the main characters - and you better believe I'll be recommending this book to all of my friends!

Thank you to NetGalley, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and the author for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest feedback!

A charming dual timeline love story, with misunderstandings and second chances. Sam is reluctant to return to the beach for more than a few days, because she doesn't want to remember her time there with Wyatt, her first love. But her sister and mother have convinced her to come out to look at a possible wedding venue with her fiance Jack. She hasn't seen Wyatt in years, not since he ghosted her after that last summer, and his parents stopped coming to the beach and started renting out their house. But he's back, and Sam's world is shaken.
I absolutely loved Monaghan's NORA OFF SCRIPT, and liked this a lot too. But I'm not as much of a fan of the torn between two lovers/with the wrong man trope, and Jack was definitely the wrong man. As soon as I got to the part where Jack and Sam read books together that he chooses, and they're all meant to teach something, I said oh hell no, Jack's got to go. And he just got worse in my eyes, despite being great on paper. The end was satisfying, but there was some heavy stuff to get through first.

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan 4.5
An engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart.

A sweet second chance romance set in a quaint beach town with likeable characters. I found myself rooting for the main characters and loving the quirky cast of secondary characters. The short chapters kept me wanting to read more and it was light and breezy enough to read over a weekend.

“You’re the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out it’s spectacular. You’re the chocolate fucking cake, Sam, and you won’t even choose it.”

SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER by @annabelmonaghan

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I will officially read absolutely ANYTHING @annabelmonaghan writes, including her grocery list! Same Time Next Summer had me swooning! It was the perfect combo of first love, first heartache, finding yourself and all the good and hard stuff that comes with it.

My heart ached so many times for both Wyatt and Sam. And the setting was so spectacular. Every detail made you feel like you were in a small beach town and Sam’s parents house was the most perfect place to cozy up in with all its quirkiness.

Same and Wyatt have known eachother for as long as they can remember and spend their summers together at their neighboring beach houses. Naturally they become eachothers first love and think they’ll be together forever but something happens between the two families that cause them to fall apart from eachother. Now Sam is back to the beach house with her fiancé, Jack, to plan their wedding and none other than Wyatt shows back up.

Wyatt and Sam go through so much in these pages and yet the entire time I could still see them together. It wasn’t so far fetched that it could never happen in real life and as a reader, I found myself cheering for them the entire time!

Dual POV, then/now timeframes, second chance romance, small town beach setting- this book can do no wrong!!

I’m not usually a second chance romance lover but this book was everything!!! I read this book in two days and loved every minute of it. I am so glad I decided to give a second chance romance book a shot because it was so cute

Cute and satisfying summer read. Makes me want to go to the beach. The end felt warp speed and there wasn’t enough yearning for my liking.

A sweet, second chance beach romance. Sam thinks she has her life all set until Wyatt comes back into it one summer. I'm a sucker for a guy with a guitar, so I loved Wyatt!

A quick easy read. I'm definitely going to add Annabel Monaghan to my must reads list!

This is the summer romance novel everybody needs. I wish I could read it again for the first time each time I sit down in my beach chair with my toes in the sand. I could tell from the first chapter how the story was going to unfold yet I didn’t want to put the book down. The details in the lives of the characters held me. I wanted to be part of this family. I wanted to enjoy the artsy little cottage by the water and learn to be completely myself through the people who loved me most. Sam’s character is fairly predictable as far as development goes, but she reminds us of that summer version of us all. The kid who wakes up ready for summer adventure then grows into the adult who works and has responsibilities and struggles to see what life really needs. I loved this book for its simplicity.

I went into this book already knowing I'd love it because it has everything I love - the beach, summer houses, childhood friends to lovers, second chance romances, being your true self and musicians.

So I absolutely LOVEDDDD this book one of my all time favorites and I will be thinking about Sam and Wyatt for a long time.

The perfect summer read!

Same Time Next Summer is a perfect summer beach read! After getting her heart broken by the summer boy next door 18 years ago, Sam has made a life that is predictable and in line. She has a fiancé named Jack and things are going great… until she goes off script at work. Now Sam isn’t sure if she still has a job. She and Jack go to her parent’s beach house for a few days to check out a wedding venue. Sam hasn’t been back to the beach house much since Wyatt broke her heart. She loved spending summers there as a kid and is afraid of Jack not liking it. While Sam is there, she discovers why she loved the beach and the house so much when she was growing up. Nothing to do but swim and surf, hang out with friends, and spend time on the porch. Going back unlocks a lot of memories that Sam has tried to forget, and she discovers she buried a lot of who she really is with those memories. As she slowly discovers who she was and who she wants to be, Sam has to wrestle with a lot of old and new feelings for Jack, and Wyatt, and her family. I loved the characters in this book, their backstory and their connections to one another.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy. All opinions are my own.

I love a good friends to lovers trope. This is friends to lovers to strangers to lovers. I love that they have so much history and it’s a wonderful book for your summer beach reading!
One of my favorite parts:
“I walk back through the dunes and into my own yard, and I see legs dangling off the side of the treehouse. They are my favorite legs. I want to rush over and climb up that ladder, but I stop myself for a second just to look. She’s drawing and she’s completely in her head. Her hair is a mess, like she went for a long swim this morning and just let it dry in the sun. That’s the rest of my life right there.”
It’s a sweet, closed-door romance that’ll give you all the butterflies and swoons to add some joy to your summer!

I had really high hopes for this one but was let down a bit by the hype on this one. A second chance romance is a hard trope to get right and while this one had potential I didn’t like how things unfolded.

"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴."

Not only does this book contain dual POVs, but it also contains dual timelines. Which is one of my favorite things because you get such a well-rounded and full story!

This is such a sweet coming of age story, filled with summer and first loves, as well as second chances and learning to love, and be loved for, who you are.

Thank you @penguinrandomhouse, @putnambooks and @netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
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Sam finally has her life put back together after reeling from a broken heart by her first love Wyatt. Now Sam has a reliable job and is planning a wedding to her perfect fiance Jack. When Sam and Jack agree to head to her parents’ beach house to look at wedding venues she never expects to run into Wyatt again after all these years. The two agree to become friends and Wyatt helps Sam find herself again.

I loved this book! It is the perfect summer read. I’m not usually a fan of second chance romance but this one had me rooting for them from the very beginning. Thank you Netgalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for the egalley in exchange for my honest review.

Synopsis: Sam returns to the beaches of Long Island with her fiancée, only to come face-to-face with ex Wyatt, who broke her heart 14 years ago…

Thoughts:
What a fun beach read!!!
When I started reading this, I was in the midst of suffering from seasonal allergies and was not at all in the mood for a summer read. Now? I’m ready to don a bikini and soak in some rays at the nearest beach!

This is the first book I’ve read by Monaghan, and I definitely enjoyed the flow of it, especially with the flashbacks. The chemistry between Sam and Wyatt was great (although at points I felt that they veered into “emotional” cheating territory).

Take home message: If you are looking for a light-hearted, clean romance for your next vacay that is light in angst, this one’s for you!

3.5⭐️
I loved Monaghan’s debut last year that I couldn’t put it down and read it within 2 days. I love the cover of “Same Time Next Summer” and after reading The Summer I Turned Pretty - with the same plot of childhood crush going to the beach house each summer for the whole summer (maybe it’s an East Coast thing? But I can’t fathom that kind of like.)
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The first part was current with lots of flashbacks to the last to see Wyatt and Sam. It’s idyllic and slow pace of beach life in the past. You can see how Sam fell in love with Wyatt and how they fell apart. The second part was all current.
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The love triangle- you knew how it would end and Sam was so despondent that it was frustrating she couldn’t see it sooner. Or that family wouldn’t say anything. And I don’t think she had the best therapist. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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I love the bits of Sam wanting to be an art teacher but I get like that came out of nowhere and this is 75% of the move when she declares she’s always wanted to do it. I started and stopped reading this a lot.
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Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the arc copy. These are my own thoughts and opinions.
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Content: minimal language, closed door romance, grief and depression, cheating but not by the main couples