I love this author and her latest does not disappoint. While her debut was one of my favorite books of the year, this is softer and more nostalgic. I love how she describes feelings and paints the scene -- it is almost unmatched and made me long for summer days at the beach. Definitely recommend and this will be your perfect beach/summer read. I know that I will looking forward to this author's books every year now just like I do with Elin Hilderbrand, etc.

Same Time Next Summer comes out next week on June 6, 2023, and you can purchase HERE!

Her skin felt so soft against his that she wondered if it had been changed somehow, as if the cells of his body interacted with hers to create a whole other thing.

This is perfect for fans of Every Summer After - similar vibes/relationship. A great beach read that I couldnt put down!!

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

A sweet, nostalgic summer read. Sam & Wyatt’s summers together in childhood, their high school breakup, and then their reconnection as adults all made me smile.

I’ve never spent a summer at the beach, but I’ve read / watched enough stories set there that this felt comfortingly familiar.

I enjoyed the beach vibes & second chance romance. Sam’s struggle between her life with Jack and what was & could have been with Wyatt was tough for me. I’m not sure I 100% agree with the path she chose, but at the same time I get it. This book is a perfect summer read!

Summer beach house • Small beach town • Friends to lovers • Dual POV • Now & then timeline • Every Summer After vibes

Need a beach read for your long weekends or summer trips? Absolutely add this to the list.

This was my first Annabel Monaghan read and I really loved it. It was short, sweet, and gave me all the butterflies! I'm an absolute SUCKER for the tropes in this book (see below) and they're all so beautifully woven together in this story. It also brought back all the childhood memories of family vacations and first love!

The main reason this is getting 4 Stars? I wish it were longer! Part of me liked that it was a short, quick summer read, but I also would have loved some extra pages to dive into this story more. I LOVED the side characters and wanted more of them. I also felt Sam and Wyatt's reconciliation/the ending was a bit rushed. I would have loved a little more between them.

Read If You Like:
-Childhood Friends to Lovers
-Second-Chance Romance
-Now/Then Timeline
-Beach House Setting
-First Love
-Soul-Searching

Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons, BookSparks, and NetGalley for the gifted copy and eARC in exchange for an honest review!

I loved Monaghan's previous book Nora Goes Off Script. However, I felt like this one hits the sophomore slump. I feel like it's the same exact book as Meet Me at the Lake.

Another great one from Annabel Monaghan! I loved "Nora Goes Off Script," and was so excited to receive an ARC of her latest.

This was so nostalgic, and had that perfect summer feeling. I loved how the story switched between past and present, and it was so easy to fall in love with Wyatt. It was a little tricky to read about Sam's character development and not feel like it was entirely about Wyatt, but I do think that the plot/development beyond Sam/Wyatt's romance was there!

This was a book about your first love, and soulmates, and the beach and the magical energy around the summertime when you're young. I really liked the concepts of growing up, but maintaining childhood joys and splendor. Just because we get older doesn't mean we can't enjoy what we enjoyed when we were kids anymore. It was a great story!

Same Time Next Summer unfortunately had none of the magical little bits that Nora had.

Summary
Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off...

I don't know if the comparison to Nora hurt this one for me, I don't know if I've just read too many second chance romances lately but whatever the case, reading Same Time Next Summer was a pretty big let down. Sam and her current relationship had zero chemistry and even the chemistry between Sam and her teenage love interest didn't pick up until way too far into the book.

I'm not going to post this review to my Instagram because I'm not sure it was solely the book or more a "me problem."

Tagline: Don’t forget to pop this gem into your beach bag this summer!

Full review to come on FreshFiction.com.

Thank you to the author, Putnam Books and Netgalley for sending me this ARC in exchange for my honest review…official release day is June 6, 2023.

I absolutely loved and adored Nora Goes Off Script and was so excited when I learned that the same author had a new book coming out just in time for summer. @annabelmonaghan how did you conjure up the tea house in Nora (which I still dream about) and then decide to give us more in this book with a beach front tree house, which also has amazing sunset views, AND the linden tree at the cove with all of the beautiful shells!? Who makes paper out of driftwood? You’re a literary magician and I am so happy I have discovered your magical books. You make me smile the entire time I am lost in your stories. Thank you so much for this little treasure!

I absolutely loved how you described the clutter and “chaos” of this happy little Long Island beach house….how “chaos in the cluttered beach house looks happy"! I fell in love with this family and hope you come out with a sequel to this story line ASAP. Granny and Gramps may have been my favorite characters and they were hilarious! I love how grandparents are like children in that they too are little observers. Just like children, they’re sponges taking it all in and then BAM, they hit you with the greatest advice you’re ever going to get because their insight comes from their life experiences….and they were right all along! Being born and raised in Florida, I couldn’t agree more when you said that the people in California are staring at a beach "that is facing the wrong way!"

If you loved the movie Sweet Home Alabama, and the books Love and Other Words AND Every Summer After, then don’t even think about it and pre-order this book NOW so that you can have it just in time to pack for your summer travels.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me ❤️

I loved it! I found Same Time Next Summer with a bit more emotion and longing then Nora Goes Off Script, and the better for it. Samantha aka Sam and Wyatt have spent every summer of their lives until age 16, and loved each other every year since, even when they've tried not to. 14 years after their break up, they're thrown back together when Sam is planning her wedding and Wyatt is hosting a music festival back in their summer town. Answering the question can young love be true love, fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and Every Summer After will love this one.

REVIEW FOR SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 stars

Thank you to @netgalley, @putnambooks and @annabelmonaghan for the gifted copy!

I fell in love with Annabel’s writing last year when I read Nora Goes Off Script. It was an easy read that I got through super quick. When I saw Same Time Next Summer coming out I knew I had to get my hands on it. And to put it simply, this did not disappoint!

𝕊𝕐ℕ𝕆ℙ𝕊𝕀𝕊:
Sam has spent the past decade getting over her childhood love and organizing her life into controlled compartments. Spending a few summer days at her childhood beach house with her family and her fiancé for wedding planning, the last person she expected to run into is her first love, Wyatt. She has no reason to feel thrown, but after seeing him and hearing his guitar from their treehouse, she can’t help but reminisce about the times when he was her Wyatt- and the event that forced them apart to begin with.

𝕎ℍ𝔸𝕋 𝕀 𝕃𝕀𝕂𝔼𝔻:
• alternating POVs and chapters in past and present
• all the summer love feels
• loved Sam’s growth fully into the person she is meant to be

𝕎ℍ𝔸𝕋 𝕎𝔸𝕊ℕ’𝕋 𝕄𝕐 ℂ𝕌ℙ 𝕆𝔽 𝕋𝔼𝔸:
• I would have loved to have learned more about Sam’s life meeting her fiancé, building her career, and what her thoughts were during the 14 years between her childhood and now
• I thought I could have throttled her terrible therapist lol

𝕆𝕍𝔼ℝ𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝕋ℍ𝕆𝕌𝔾ℍ𝕋𝕊:
I believe this is gonna be one of the reads for the summer. It’s like an old pair of jeans that you put on after not having worn them in years- feels good and reminds you of a time when you were more carefree. I loved the way Annabel handled that aspect- we all remember our last summers without responsibility where we lived more through emotion as opposed to logic, and I felt that throughout this whole book.

Same Time Next Summer comes out 6/6/23, so if you haven’t preordered it do it now!

I loved this book. I’d been reading a bunch of summer books that had a beach backdrop recently and this was one of my faves, i related to Sam a lot. Being at a crossroads with work in my own life I could relate to her. I loved her story with her family and the forgiveness that came out of it.
It was very well written and I definitely wish there was an epilogue. But ah now I have to read Nora goes off script!

I read this in one sitting today! I could not put it down and idk why this almost made me tear up🥹I was so emotionally invested, it hurt my heart at times.

It's told from two POVs in alternating chapters between the past and now. Besides Wyatt and Sam, I loved how the author added in side characters like Sam's sister and grandparents. It really helped bring the story to life.

If you're looking for a second chance romance to read this summer, this is it! I think fans of Every Summer After or Love and Other Words will love this one. Also, somebody needs to adapt this into a limited series PLEASE. 4.5/5⭐️

Thank you @prhaudio for a copy of this audiobook. This book is the perfect summer read. A story about Sam, who is engaged and married planning her marriage to Jack at her family's beach side home. She crosses path with her first love, Wyatt, and starts questioning her life.

I enjoyed seeing the flash back of Sam and Wyatt's young love and what led to the breakdown. I struggled with how Sam handled her feelings with Wyatt and her lack of communication with Jack. Overall, I enjoyed the narration and pacing of the story.

Squeal! Eeek! Love! I bet this is going to be my favorite book of 2023. I read it in a day. Sam’s life looks good on paper and checks all the right boxes. Yet a trip home to the beach, bumping in to her dreamy ex, and revisiting her past, make her question what she really wants. Quirky, fun and precious- this one is 5 star all day long!

Sam is months away from sealing the deal on the life of her dreams. Her HR consulting career is rock-solid and no nonsense. Her fiancé, Jack, is an even more rock-solid, no nonsense doctor, and their upcoming wedding is slated to be the ultimate elegant affair at Sam's family's beach haven in Long Island. As the summer opens, there's nothing that could throw Sam's carefully-orchestrated plans out of orbit.

With the exception, however, of her first summer love. Wyatt.

When Sam and Jack return to Long Beach to iron out the final details of their wedding, Wyatt's unexpected and seemingly untouched-by-time presence on the shore is enough to throw Sam headfirst into a reverie of untapped, painful memories from their teenage summers together, and the time Wyatt broke her heart for good.

An ode to first loves set against the sweet backdrop of summertime on Long Island, "Same Time Next Summer" is an easy, breezy read to kick of the season. While I loved Monaghan's descriptive writing and the all-too-familiar rom-com feel of the story, both Sam and (especially) Wyatt felt far too unformed as characters for me to connect with them. In a world oversaturated by a sea of summertime love stories, "Same Time Next Summer" needed a less been-there-done-that plot to hold promise with me, or at the very least, a more emotional punch-packing cast of characters. I breezed through the story in 24 hours but can't say it left an impression on me. Cute but almost too much so for it's own good, this is a fine summer romance but one I predict will be overshadowed by those with more substance and originality.

4.5 🌟 Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review. I was hooked from page 1. The author’s writing is atmospheric and beautiful, and this couldn’t be a better summer read. I felt so connected to these characters, and loved reading about their families too. The love in this book was endearing, sweet, wholesome and fateful. Absolutely recommend and hope romance readers pick this up on this beach this summer 🌞

From the beloved author of of Nora Goes Off Script -

Sam lives in Manhattan and is engaged to Jack. Jack is perfect. He's a dermatologist. He follows a strict gym regimen. He's predictable. He's safe.

Sam's mom really wants her to get married in Long Island, where the family has spent every summer since Sam was a child. Which would be totally fine, but Long Island brings back memories of Sam's first love, Wyatt. To appease her mom, she agrees to come for a couple days just to see the venue options. As luck (or fate?) would have it, Wyatt is back in town helping with a huge concert.

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I absolutely loved this! @annabelmonaghan is now a must-read author for me. I loved Sam and Wyatt. I also adored Sam's grandmother. She said what she thought, without much of a filter. But, hey, when you're right, you're right! Perfect summer read!

I loved this one so much I didn’t want to wait to post 😂 so now you have time to preorder it, and read it right when it comes out! 🤪🩷

Thank you to @prhaudio for the gifted audiobook, and @netgalley for the ebook. All reviews and opinions are my own.

Get ready to read the book of the Summer!! This second chance romance is about to hit you in the feels. If you’re a fan of Every Summer After, I highly suggest grabbing this one.

I purposely cued this one up right after finishing Nora Goes Off Script. While they have nothing in common I loved reading them back to back.

This one follows Sam, and her “perfect” life, complete with fiancé and job…errrr.. well maybe not the second one. Sam’s self proclaimed perfect life isn’t looking so perfect at the moment. She and her fiancé Jack, head to her parents beach home for a visit and to check out a “possible” wedding venue. Little does Sam know that her first love Wyatt would be making an appearance as well.

I loved how this one played out. Jack is just annoying enough that you can’t root for him 😂 and honestly I’m not sure how he was able to stand so close to Sam and Wyatt and not catch on fire from their spark. 😘

This one has a dual time which helps the story move along quickly and the narrators absolutely killed it. Honestly for a minute I thought I was Sam and my heart was breaking. It was so good. This one has both a female and male narrator for their respective parts.

If you can’t tell I loved this one… it has received the coveted Melli’s 6 Star Rating! 🥰 And just went to the top of my favorite reads of 2023! 🩷