Love spanning a lifetime mixed with all the carefree summer feels made a perfect summer beach read!

Sam is set to marry her perfect Dr fiancé, has a seemingly perfect job, and is about to go back to her family summer vacation home to tour a wedding venue… what more could she ask for?? But then she hears the strums of a guitar floating across the breeze from the treehouse, and her “perfect” life is about to veer off course when she runs into her first love, Wyatt.

I loved the nostalgia, the emotions it evoked, and Monaghan set the beach scene so beautifully that I could picture myself there. The only thing I didn’t like about this book was that it was over! Absolutely devoured every page!

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for my ARC in exchange for my honest feedback!

Really cute read but the first 50% really drug me along. I enjoyed a few flashbacks but found myself way more invested with the present-day. We didn't see as much of their current relationship as I would have liked. Overall, solid read and I love this trope!

Thank you to Penguin and NetGalley for the e-arc of this book.

This is all the feels. A perfect summer beach read. I was able to feel the ocean without being there. I loved the characters and was rooting for Sam and Wyatt. I love the second chance romance trope, so it was a definite win for me. I enjoyed the alternating chapters, to hear about their past. I did not want to put this one down. I will be sure to check out this author. 5 stars

This is a quintessential summer read in that it perfectly evokes the feeling of summer. Those lazy days spent in the sun with no obligations and a wondrous mid-afternoon nap before dinner outside chatting long into the night with people you love. Side note: can you tell I’m desperately craving a vacation?? Well, until I can schedule can, this book perfectly scratches the itch.

There is also a lovely second chance romance between Sam and Wyatt, teenage sweethearts who are pulled apart by circumstances (minor enough to still root for them to work it out) and brought back together when Sam is back in their summer enclave to plan her wedding. It’s very by-the-numbers and predictable as far as these stories go, but that only lends to the easy, breezy vibe. When you’re on vacation you don’t want to think too hard. So, just let this book wash over you. I promise it will be revitalizing!

I loved this authors first novel so couldn’t wait to read her second. It did not disappoint! I love a good “across the lifespan” novel and this one follows Sam and Wyatt’s love story through the years. I found it to be beautifully written and an absolute delight to fall in love with these characters.

The ending of this book truly sparkled, and I finally felt connected with the main characters by the end. But it was slow plot-wise, and the dual/alternating timelines didn't really work for me. I think it would have read better if it had been chronological. For most of the book, I didn't really feel invested or connected with the characters.

This was missing some of the magic from Nora Goes Off Script.

Thank you to Penguin Books, NetGalley, and Annabel Monaghan for the e-arc of Same Time Next Summer!
I read Nora Goes Off Script before I read this book so I could get a sense of the author’s writing style. I really enjoyed Nora Goes Off Script, but I LOVED Same Time Next Summer (it must be because I’m a sucker for small beach town romances).
This was such a perfect read: summer in a small beach town, a little bit of family drama, and reconciliation between two people who went from best friends to lovers in their childhood.
This book had me reminiscing of my own childhood/teenage years growing up on Lake Michigan. Wyatt and Sam were great MCs, and their connection and chemistry felt real the entire time I was reading the book. The conflict was realistic, their love palpable, and their own personal growth measurable.
Anyone who needs the perfect beach read this summer, look no further

I finished this one in a few hours on my trip back to Michigan from Florida and was ABSOLUTELY obsessed with this summery second chance romance. Told in alternating present and flashback chapters, we follow Sam make her way back to her family's beach house with her fiance as they make wedding plans for later that year. It's apparent there is a reason why Sam has avoided the house, and the beach, but you don't immediately find out the why of it. And then....and then. Wyatt makes his way back into the picture and I was gone. Sometimes in these situations, I still end up feeling back for the current partner who is clearly going to wind up getting left in the dust but Sam's relationship with Jack didn't hold a freaking CANDLE to what she had had with Wyatt. I really enjoyed the flashbacks and seeing their romance unfold and seeing just how much the two loved each other.

I swear to God my entire body was pulsing and aching with all of the UST and my need for Sam and Wyatt to get back together. DEF RECOMMEND for this summer.

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Putnam for allowing me to read this eARC and exchange for my honest review!

This was another contemporary romance that I have mixed feelings about—giving it 3.5 stars, rounded to 4.

Summary: Sam’s life appears perfect from the outside, with her doctor fiancé and a great job in HR. But, when she visits her family’s beach house on Long Island to check out a potential wedding venue, her teenage love Wyatt is there. And even though Wyatt broke her heart badly, Sam’s life doesn’t feel so perfect when she starts to remember who she used to be when they were together all those years ago.

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed the story for the most part, but had a hard time with the pacing the entire way through, and I never felt anxious to get back to it in between reading.

Part of that is because the second chance romance trope isn’t my favorite, and this book further complicates that with a fiancé in the mix who isn’t a bad person, but is written to be so obviously wrong for Sam.

I did truly enjoy the relationship between Sam and Wyatt, though, and liked the overall theme of finding yourself and deciding what you want in life (and not just settling for what you think pleases others or that you’re supposed to want).

Overall, I really did want Sam and Wyatt to have a happy ending, and was rooting for it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an e-ARC. This is my honest review.

3.5 rounded up!

I at least liked this one a lot more than her first book, so that’s a huge win. But this story is pretty forgettable. A second chance romance like this never makes sense to me and I hate any kind of emotional cheating, which this definitely has.

It was super bingeable (on audio for sure) but there was a lot of fluff in the middle I didn’t totally care about. Overall good not great!

first, i would like to express my deepest appreciation and thanks to netgalley, penguin group putnam, and g.p. putnam's sons, for the advanced reader copy! i want to emphasize that my opinions from the review are completely my own. ⋆˚🐚🫧𖦹⋆🥥

i rated this book around the range of 2.5 to 3.0 ⭐ (but will round it up). it pains me that i have to rate this book very low because i heard great things about "nora goes off script." "same time, next summer" reminded me very much of "the summer i turned pretty" series but the adult version. particularly, i think it reminded me of tsitp due to how the main character goes back to the beach house every summer. i thought the whole storyline was very cute, almost too cute to where i was cringing at some parts. i do love a good hallmark christmas movie though, which can be the equivalent of a hallmark summer movie. however this was just meh due to how i consider romance to be my number 1 genre (to read!), and i found the characters not to be so memorable. the dialogue was so cheesy that i forgot that the main character is 30 years old because she spoke like a high schooler. like i understand the dialogue from when the book talks about the "then" portions since they are teenagers, but the dialogue when it reaches the "now" just felt like a really cheesy summer movie. there was a point where sam realizes she was acting like a teenager in love and i was like, "good thing she is self-aware." 🥥🌴🌺🍍🌸

to talk about the characters...sam, i had a love-hate relationship with her. her whole personality was basically how she loves the beach and how the long island beach town knows her as the girl who dated wyatt. all she literally talked about which i guess is the premise of the book. she was just boring, but i like how she has a coming to a realization in the end. jack...her fiance was so boring and insufferable. i think the only pro of him is that he likes playing and watching tennis (i am a tennis girlie). i know that there are couples that are opposite from one another that work but not them! he had the traits of being grumpy, someone who whines a lot, and someone who was controlling. i mean that was how i saw jack since that was how sam viewed him (no jack's pov). wyatt, i mean should i say more? i felt like we didn't get to really know him since most of the chapters were in sam's pov. we did get chapters from wyatt's pov but from the past and one chapter from the present, but all i got from it is that he likes to play music and surf. personally, to me, i thought there was emotional cheating in the book between sam and wyatt (when she was still with jack). i did not like nor appreciate that part at all as even sam's family and wyatt were calling her out for it. the "then" chapters were in the third person, and the "now" chapters were in the first person which i was confused the first time i read it. i don't prefer third person but i wished it was consistent throughout the book. and the ending was rushed like what many others said. i felt like monaghan could have dived deep into wyatt and sam's relationship and constructed their love story to be bittersweet when they first broke up. i think to tie it all up, the book was just very rushed in my opinion. ☀️🌊🍉🌴⛱️🍦

of course, people have different opinions about the book! please do not let this review steer away from monaghan's books! i think her books are a great pick-me-up read, as her chapters are very short! i just think this book was very unmemorable, but i did enjoy the summer aspect of the book! thank you annabel monaghan for writing the book. and once again, thank you netgalley, penguin group putnam, and g.p. putnam's sons, for the advanced reader copy! 🐚🪩🌊⚓🫧

book releases on june 6th, 2023! 🍉🦩🌴🐚🍍

A bit disappointing. I loved “Nora goes Off Script” and was super excited to get this ARC from @netgalley. It just did not hit the same mark as Nora.
I felt that this was the same trope we have seen before, someone is engaged has an old lover in the background and all of a sudden finds fault with the current love and conveniently is again face to face with the long ago love.
I expected more. It was just ok.

Annabel Monaghan's previous novel Nora Goes Off Script was such a gem, so I was excited to get my hands on a copy of her new book. This one is nowhere near as satisfying for me as Nora was, but I still enjoyed the read. I was worried about the premise, because it seemed awfully close to the premise of Carley Fortune's Every Summer After (and there's even a blurb from her on the cover). Many, many people loved the Fortune book, but I absolutely detested it. I worried that this book would suffer from the same uncomfortable juxtaposition of adult characters with their teenage selves. In the Fortune book, it was intensely awkward to read and there was entirely too much content about the younger versions. In Monaghan's book, that content was mostly in the first half of the book and was just enough to give us the background that created their current situation. I had a few minor issues with the book, but it was a fun, quick read. I recommend it for anyone who wants a light romance that doesn't have overly annoying protagonists (this is unfortunately hard to come by, especially if they are under 40).

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance reader's copy of this novel.

Overall a cute, beachy summer romance for mature women figuring out what they really want in life. What I loved most about this story is that the character's motivations are really so relatable. Parental issues affecting us later in life etc... and then figuring out what we want all lead us to real happiness if we're willing to fight for what we want!

A SHORT PREVIEW:
Sam and Wyatt spent every waking moment together in the summers until they were 17 and life split them apart. Now as Sam is on track with a successful career, a fiance every girl would dream of and a great apartment in the city. But what happens when a tightly laced gal from the city lets loose at the beach and reconnects with her roots... and the first boy she ever loved?

THOUGHTS:
- The main point of this story is that who we think we should be and who we really are aren't always the same person, and it takes a lot of work to get to who we're meant to be - but it's always worth it!

- A major part of this story revolves around past cheating but not between the main characters. When I read the situation - I quite literally gasped out loud!! That was a fun/terrible reveal because I absolutely didn't expect it, and then when I read it- everything else made sense.

- One thing I didn't love is that while Sam is engaged, she's thinking about, etc, another man. It's one thing to be dating and decide that you're really too attached to your ex etc... but as a fellow 30-year-old woman.. I find it kind of silly that Sam would allow herself to be so emotionally involved with someone who isn't her fiance.. without first breaking up with said fiance. She should have known that the stuff with the fiance wasn't right if tempted at all? Romance lover's everywhere talk about fighting for the people we love.. but loyalty matters, and Sam's character struggles with that so it was hard for me to like her.

- Other than not loving that part of the story.. I absolutely loved the resolution of Sam's life path choices. I think so many people are guilty of not living lives they love and they become bitter to people and the world around them. It takes massive courage to change your life and walk away from people who don't support you!
---- I'd also like to note that I don't think Sam's fiance was a bad guy! Just one who thrives in conditions that others might find stifling. When he says, 'Lots of people hate their jobs sometimes, Sam. I just had a full day of adult acne. I didn't quit." -- I FELT HIS PAIN. So many people give up on things the second they don't like something, and I can understand being a pragmatic person! Sometimes you have to do hard things... BUT Sam's situation was entirely different. And if we can't be ourselves with the people we love - then they aren't right for us.

NOTES:
- Love a bright and summery cover!
- Cheating thematically present (emotional cheating is really just as bad...) between main couple and other couples

**Thank you to PENGUIN GROUP Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons & NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. I received this book for free, but all thoughts are my own. – SLR 🖤

Lovedddd this one! Such a good summer read for readers of Every Summer After and Love and Other Words!

Same Time Next Summer follows Sam as she visits her family's beach house with her new fiancé, Jack, to look for potential wedding venues. Once she arrives, she finds Wyatt, her first love and next door neighbor, back after spending time in LA not responding to her calls. Sam struggles with her future and past as her family tries to support her in her new relationship.

I loved the alternating timelines in this one and was pulled in from the start. This one was a quick read and I am looking forward to reading more of Monaghan's books!

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam books for the ARC!

Thanks to Putnam for the copy of this book!

Same Time Next Summer is very much in the same vein as Every Summer After, Happy Place, and Meet Me by the Lake - second chance romance by a lake is hot right now!

How is this book different? Sam's life is perfectly on track and she is happily engaged to Jack when her past love Wyatt, comes back into her life, so we see her wrestle through her feelings as she's supposed to be planning her wedding. There's also a very special treehouse in this book and a really wise and supportive father - I loved their conversation toward the end of the book. I appreciated having dual POV and dual timelines in this one, and it worked really well on audiobook narrated by Brittany Pressley and Dan Bittner.

Read this if you:
- are looking for a good summer/beach read
- enjoy second chance romance with a first love
- liked Every Summer After, Happy Place, or Meet Me by the Lake
- appreciate dual POV romance

I was a huge fan of Annabel Monagahn's debut novel, Nora Goes Off Script, and found myself enjoying her follow up: Same Time Next Summer.

Sam's life is just the way she wants it to be. She's getting married to Jack, her tennis player doctor fiancee, she's in a good HR job and is about to see if the family ;vacation home is the right venue for the wedding. What she doesn't expect is for Wyatt to appear. Wyatt, who she hasn't seen in YEARS. But when they reconnect, it feels like just yesterday that Wyatt and Sam were in the treehouse, Wyatt playing on his guitar. She's going to have to make a choice: Wyatt who broke her heart years ago or the perfect on paper Jack.

Same Time Next Summer has the short chapters and pacing that flows from the first page. While I felt that some sections were redundant and unnecessary, the story tied itself together in the end. I was definitely rooting for one suitor over the other from the beginning but didn't predict why one couple had spilt. I recommend Same Time Next Summer to those who enjoy contemporary fiction.

Really enjoyed this read! Fast paced read that keeps you captivated the entire time. Super sweet love story between the two main characters.

This is a perfect summer read. It makes me want to pack up, go to the nearest ocean and shove myself into the sand to listen to the waves. And also go back to childhood simplicities.
I love the message that the truest parts of you are not necessarily childish or unworthy of your time and, in support of that, people who don't listen to you and support you are unworthy of your time.

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Nora Goes Off Script was my favorite read of 2022, so when I learned that Annabel Monaghan wrote another book, I knew I had to get my hands in it ASAP.

Same Time Next Summer is a beautiful story of friendship, love, growth, and second chances. The picturesque setting of Nantucket, dual timeline, and the incredible character development will keep you wanting more - quite literally, as I wish there were about 100+ more pages so I could see more of where the characters end up.

This will easily be one of the best beach reads of the year and I will be recommending it to all of my friends.
Thanks for the gifted book @PutnamBooks!