A sparkling summer romance guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

Sam is pretty sure she's gotten over Wyatt, the man who promised to love her forever and broke her heart 13 years ago. She lives in NYC, has a well-paying job, and is about to marry her dermatologist fiancé, Jack. Sam hasn't been back to her family's beach house on Long Island (the place she spent her summers with Wyatt) in years and she reluctantly visits with Jack so they can check out a potential wedding venue. She doesn't expect to see Wyatt there, and when she sees him on the beach, all those good and bad memories come flooding back. We find out what happened between Sam and Wyatt through flashbacks and spend time with them in the present day as well. The story is told in first and third person, mostly from Sam's perspective.

Sam is a lovable character and it was easy to cheer for her as she grapples with her professional and personal lives and tries to determine what is her version of success and happiness. I do wish we got to know Wyatt a little bit better in the present and that the final chapters were more drawn out. Still, this is a delightful second chance romance, full of sunshine, sea air, love, and self-discovery. Highly recommended (and if you haven't read Nora Goes Off Script by the same author, you should - it is just as charming as Same Time Next Summer!). 4.5 stars.

Thank you very much to Putnam Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy.

Same Time Next Summer, by Annabel Monaghan will definitely be on the 2023 Beach Must Reads List!
Labelling this book as just Romance or Woman's Literature seems dismissive.- It is a great story that faces the fact that relationships and families are complicated -and that all of that is what makes life worth while . This is the perfect vacation, heart warming, introspective book.

Samantha apparently has it all, a high powered job in New York City & a handsome dermatologist fiance. Jack has met her family within the confines of their New York City lives - but never during the summer at the Long Island beach house that is the family's getaway. Traveling through the tunnel from the city to Long Island changes her family. At the beach the "Porch House" seems to release inhibitions and turns the family into more of a hippie existence. The house embraces art projects, shell collections, and family history. The trip to the beach leads to self reflection for them all.

Much thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an honest review

I really tried to enjoy this book but the switching from present tense to past tense really made it hard to keep reading. I think this book would make a good emotional beach read if you’re into that but overall I’d give it a 3.5 stars. The story felt a little rushed and the characters felt a little underdeveloped.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC. All opinions are my own.

I enjoyed this book although I had higher hopes for it.
Sam brings her fiancee Jack to her parents beach house for a week in the summer. She is surprised to find Wyatt there as well. Sam and Wyatt spent every summer at the beach together as kids and fell in love as teenagers. Something happened between their families and Sam and Wyatt haven't spoken in 14 years.
This is told in dual timelines and we get to see what happened years ago to break them apart. We also see Sam in present day. She is realizing that her predictable life might not be what she really wants.
This will be a good summer beach read. I look forward to the author's next book.
Thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for a copy of this book for review.

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan tells the story of Samantha and Wyatt in the past and present. As kids, they spent their summers together on the Long Island beach. As teens, they dated and went their separate ways. When we join the "now" part of the story, Samantha is engaged to Jack and is headed back to Long Island for the first time in over a decade. The story progresses from there with flashbacks to the summers of their youth and now.

While the ending was predictable, I didn't mind knowing. I enjoyed the journey with Sam and Wyatt. I love the details that Monaghan provided about their days on the beach, their adolescence and their family members. I felt like I was on the beach or in the surf with the characters. Monaghan's descriptions of the beach and the various locations in town resulted in a strong sense of place.

Overall, I enjoyed Same Time Next Summer. It's a romance, but has well-developed characters and some plot bends that I didn't expect. It's a quick read and a fun read, but not a guilty one.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #PenguinGroupPutnam for an #ARC of #SameTimeNextSummer

4 stars- this feels like the older sister of the books series, The Summer I turned Pretty. I did struggle a bit with the flashbacks to the past in this book. It felt a bit disjointed. Thank you netgalley & the publisher for the ARC, in exchange for an honest review.

Sam and Wyatt's story follows the very distinct romance book recipe of growing up spending summers at the lake and gradually falling in love with your neighbor. It's oddly specific and overdone, but I'm a sucker for it. For a gal that grew up in the mountains, I'm weirdly nostalgic for lake summers, and second chance romances hit me in the feels every time.

What was off-putting about this book was that all of the past chapters were written in third person limited, with alternating dual POV, but the present chapters were all (with the exception of one strangely out of place chapter) written in first person from Sam's point of view. This led to a disjointed reading experience for me, and unfortunately, there wasn't anything extraordinary about the characters or their journey that made this book stand out.

Something about that first love! Sam and Wyatt's love story is no exception! A love so deep is bound to cause severe heart break if it doesn't work out. Very real to read about going through that process. I thoroughly loved this book and still have visions of the tree house overlooking the ocean. So serene!

Same Time Next Summer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 Romance
🎶 Better Together - Jack Johnson
🌟 Publication Date: June 6, 2023

One sentence synopsis:
A woman brings her fiancé to her family’s summer beach house and unexpectedly comes face to face with her first love that she hasn’t seen since he broke her heart 14 years ago.

My review:
What an absolutely stupendous book! I’m going to have a hard time writing a review for this book that differs from my other review of hers (if you haven’t read my review of Nora Goes Off Script you should go do that).

She did it again with one of the most picture perfect pure romance novels I’ve ever read. It has everything and more you love in romances and none of the things you hate. I loved the characters, the setting, the timeline, the dual perspective, everything. As with Nora Goes off Script, this is more of a light hearted rom-com and not your deep heart wrenching romance.

Some might read the full synopsis and say “hey, doesn’t that sound a lot like Every Summer After and Love and Other Words”. And I’d say “yea it kinda does”. But so what?! I rated those 4.5 and 5 ⭐️s too! I guess I found my niche. But one thing this book has that the other two didn’t….. none of that miss communication crap. There is a reason the relationship fell through and it’s NOT because someone didn’t say something or say how they felt. 🙌🏼

I chuckled to myself so many times while reading this book I lost count! This book is so unexpectedly hilarious in a very understated way. Just the way the internal dialogue is and some of the banter is just *chefs kiss*. Like I want to highlight them all and talk about them with someone and we can have our own little inside joke (#chickennoodle)😉

Put this book on your TBR folks!! It comes out June 6, 2023

What are your favorite rom-coms?

✨ebook provided by netgalley in exchange for an honest review✨

Thank you to the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

This story I feel had so much potential. I really like the characters and the plot, but something felt missing. I"m not sure if it was the back and forth flash backs in the first half, or the pacing in the second - but it just felt lacking. I'm aware I'm rather picky but, I liked the tropes in this book, and its a great summer/beach read, so I will be recommending this to others when it comes out next year!

Thank you to Net Galley, Penguin Group Putnam, and Annabel Monaghan for the eARC of Same Time Next Summer.

Sam and her family used to visit their beach house in Long Island every Summer where she met her neighbor turned first love, Wyatt. After a familial scandal, Wyatt moved to Los Angeles to become a musician, and him and Sam ceased contact. Now, 12 years later, Sam and her fiancé, Jack, are planning their wedding and visit Long Island to scope out a wedding venue. Conveniently, Sam discovers the her Wyatt has returned to his neighboring beach house to help assist with a musical festival.

I liked this book, but I feel like the reader would connect with it more if there was more Sam/ Wyatt interaction in the present or even more details regarding their past relationship (before things abruptly ended). I wanted to feel the jealousy from Wyatt and the magnetic pull Sam would feel towards Wyatt when she encounters him again... or maybe that's just me. I feel like I could have loved the story if there was a little more. I still liked and would recommend it.

- Dual Timeline : Now & Then
- Dual POV: Sam & Wyatt
- Second Chance Romance
- Summer Romance
- Neighbor Romance

Thank you to Putnam Books for our copy of Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan.

This books is available on June 6, 2023

Rating: 5 star
Genre: Romance

Thoughts: This book is the next book of the summer! If you loved Every Summer After or Love and Every Words, then you need to pick this book up!

This is a second-chance romance! It has a past and present timeline!

After reading Nora Goes Off Script, I knew that this author was an auto-buy for me! Excited to see what she continues to write!

Read this book if you like:
-Second chance romance
-Stories with a past and present storyline
-Books like Every Summer After

ARC REVIEW
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Fans of Every Summer After and The Infinity Between Us will love this new second chance at young love story. Definitely a summer story to add to your TBR right now!

🏄‍♀️ Sam is returning to her family’s Long Island beach cottage with her fiancé in tow to check out a local wedding venue. What she didn’t expect was for her one that got away, Wyatt, to also be there.
Here’s what I loved:

🏄‍♀️ Second chance romances are my jam. Add in dual POV and past/present timelines and I am one happy camper. This one did not disappoint. Seeing Sam and Wyatt fall in love as teenagers and then seeing them interact as adults was great. The addition of Sam having a fiancé brought up a lot of tension.

🏄‍♀️ The setting. I loved the small beach town feel of this. The beaches and coves were beautiful. The town, with the various residents, was charming. The artist summer home and tree house were comfy.

🏄‍♀️ The family. I loved Sam’s family. They brought comic relief as well as a warm feeling to the book.

All in all, this was a great summer read for anyone who loves back and forth timelines with a second change at young love!

Release: 6/6

Thank you to the author and publisher for the ARC book in exchange for an honest review.

This was such an emotional story. I was hooked from the very beginning and could not put it down. I related to Sam so much as an anxious teenager and watching her grow up and be so lost. I love a good second chance romance and felt like this one was done really well.

I loved Annabelle Monaghan’s 2022 release, Nora Goes Off Script, so I was excited to read her new romance, Same Time Next Summer. STNS is a second chance romance about Samantha (Sam) and Wyatt who grew up spending summers together at Long Island Beach.

When the story begins, Sam is bringing Jack, her fiancé, to her family’s beach house to look at a wedding venue. Sam has been asked by the HR Consulting firm she works for to take some time off after she causes a disaster. Sam thinks she might lose her job and I wondered what she did to cause this. I will only say that it involved a flash mob and made me laugh. Jack is a successful doctor, the perfect fiancé, and very set in his routines. Sam feels safe in the life she has with Jack. Their apartment is gray, white and chrome. Jack wants a white cake, white invitations and white linens for the wedding. Sam worries about what Jack will think of her family’s beach house that is overflowing with art and craft projects (her parents are artists).

The story alternates between past and present and we begin to discover more about Sam and Wyatt’s early relationship as teens when they first fell in love. Their special place was a treehouse in Wyatt’s back yard overlooking the beach. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened to break them apart. After their break-up, Sam spent her senior year recovering with help from her family and a counselor. Wyatt struggled with dyslexia and went to a boarding school where a kind counselor gave him a guitar and signed him up for guitar lessons. After graduation, Wyatt went to Hollywood to break into the music business and worked on cars at a gas station while playing at different gigs at night. We saw how lost and hurt they both were and how they worked their way through it.

Wyatt is at the beach organizing a music festival. Sam hears him playing guitar in the treehouse and finally gets the courage to talk with him about their break up 12 years earlier. It is fun to watch Sam and Wyatt become friends again and to watch Sam find herself and become more free and happy in her life. It was sweet to hear about her new job at the library working with kids on art projects.

What held this book back for me was I felt like we learned the bare minimum about Wyatt’s life and it felt like the story ended abruptly. I would have liked to have seen more their of their HEA.

This book was a great beach read and I felt like I could hear and smell the ocean as they enjoyed surfing, swimming and sharing meals and music with each other.

This is absolutely the perfect book for any fans of childhood friends to lovers, or just friends to lovers in general. It was so cute, and had all the makings of a hallmark movie in book format. To be honest, I felt like I was watching a hallmark movie while I read this book. I think the description advertised on Netgalley said it best when it stated that this book was incredibly similar to Every Summer After. Anyone who even slightly enjoyed that book should definitely give a chance to Same Time Next Summer. Honestly, while this book wasn't life changingly amazing, it was exactly the cute fun easy romance I needed. Highly recommend.

I love, love, LOVED Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script, and Same Time Next Summer delivers the same crisp, evocative writing style I fell for. I think the author packs a lot into a shorter word count, which I appreciate. This is a story of second chance romance, with childhood sweethearts finding their way back to each other. That is the beauty and the problem with this book.

The first half had me feeling a bit too much déjà vu to Every Summer After and Love and Other Words, BUT the second half redeemed it, and I would recommend this even if you've read the aforementioned books. Same Time Next Summer made me want to feel the beach salt on my skin, peel off any rigidity to which I've succumbed, and get back in touch with a more youthful version of myself. This is a quick read you'll want to savor.

Thank you to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley for providing me with an advance reader copy to review! I enjoyed it.

3⭐️ First I would like to say thank you to NetGalley and Putman Books for the eARC of this story. I was very excited to read this book as second chance romance is my absolute favorite. Although sadly i didn’t like it as much as i had wished i did. This story follow Sam who is engaged and working a job she hates in NYC. For most of her life she went to a beach house in Long Island which is where she met Wyatt. Obviously they caught feelings and dated for a while until things went bad. Now she’s back at the beach house after years to visit venues for her wedding but she runs into Wyatt. I feel that this book and plot had so much potential but it was honestly very bland. I feel like the characters didn’t really have anything to them and it was all very rushed. It feels like the whole story needed a moment to step back and breathe and actually plan out where it wanted to go. Overall it was a very quick read and I recommend it if you’re in look for second chance romance.

I’m really excited to see the cover for this book,
I liked the story a lot. One thing I wished for was more memories from the summers spent together by Sam and Wyatt. I was very satisfied with the ending and I really enjoyed the author’s writing style. I’m definitely adding Nora Goes Off Script to my list, as I want to read more by Annabel Monoghan. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced reading copy. This will be a big hit next summer!

'Same Time Next Summer' has a lot of potential, but the book felt like it was lacking. I think that the book could have been executed better with more chapters. I felt like the story seemed rushed, and I would have liked more time with the characters.

The book's main character is Sam, and the book takes place in current time and in flashbacks to Sam's teenage years growing up at her parent's beach house in Long Island. Sam falls for her neighbor/friend, Wyatt, and the two have a sweet teenage relationship. After Wyatt stops talking to Sam (I won't spoil why he stops talking to her), Sam has to figure out to continue on through her heartbreak.

Sam is engaged to a handsome doctor named Jack, and they are both planning their wedding. She goes back to her family's beach house to see if Jack will want to get married there. She hasn't really visited in 13-14 years, but she returns as sees Wyatt again after all this time.

The story is mostly told in 1st person from Sam's perspective, but the flashback point of view are hard to follow. It would have been easier if the story was always told in 1st person, and it alternated between Wyatt and Sam's point of view.

In the end, I enjoyed the story, but I don't think it was very memorable. It's a predictable story with a sweet ending.

Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam Books for the ARC of this book.