Summer Ever After by Kortney Keisel was a great listen! I loved the island and connection to other characters in the series. Walker and Jane were so fun! Jane’s list of tropes to find love added a lot of fun to the book! One of my favorite side characters was Grandma Dee Dee 👵. She kept me laughing.

The audiobook was narrated by Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington. They did a great job! I felt like the voices fit the characters well. In case you were wondering, I was able to listen at 2.0 speed with no problem!

Thank you Dreamscape Media and @authorkortneykeisel for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Summer Ever After was a fun fluffy summery read. The main character has had no luck finding love and decides to look again in her small town. But using classic romance tropes. Which leads to so many funny situations and dates. Only to end up in a classic trope without even trying. Its so fun to see her try to play out all her favourite tropes on people shes known her whole life. Its a bit of a disaster but ends up working out in her favour.

ARC REVIEW❤️

3.5⭐️

Loved listening to this cute little romance!
The story has literally every romance trope you could think of (the whole premise is that Jane is trying to find the one using your classic book tropes).
It did feel a little cringy at times, and a little forced with her searching but overall I love Jane & Walker together!
I did also love the golf aspect in this story, I need more gold romances!

Thank you to NetGalley and Kortney Keisel for the arc.

I really enjoyed this super cute rom-com book and the narrators. It reminds me of a Hallmark movie where you know they're going to end up together but you're not 100% sure. I liked both of the MC in this one as well.

Thank you NetGalley and the author for this ARC!!

I just finished Summer Ever After by Kortney Keisel, and I just have one question to ask. Why on earth has it taken me so long to read a Kortney Keisel book?!? Now that I have realized my mistake, I am on a mission to fix it. But first, I have to tell you what I loved about Summer Ever After.

Jane is happy and bubbly. I loved her. She decides to have a summer of dating, in which she makes as many romance tropes happen as possible with the single men of the island. At times, it gets a little ridiculous, which Jane admits, but those moments made me laugh. While Jane does this, we get an introduction to the men of Sunset Harbor. This is important because these men get their own books in the series. That was fun.

Walker is newly returned to Sunset Harbor. He is “off-limits” because he doesn’t live on Sunset Harbor, AND he just happens to be Jane’s best friend’s brother. That doesn’t stop him from being there when Jane’s plans take hilarious turns. He’s the biggest flirt, and Jane trying to resist is half the fun.

The best part of this book is that it is a dual point-of-view. It makes the book getting to see how both Jane and Walker feel about events that take place. It makes things funnier, and definitely swoonier. It’s my favorite. Jane and Walker are my favorite.

The narration was fantastic. It was narrated by Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington. The dual narration was another great choice. It gave both Jane and Walker a voice, and made certain parts of the book stand out even more.

Summer Ever After is the perfect book for anyone who loves dual POV, best friend’s brother, all the romance tropes, and a lot of great flirting. I honestly had so much fun listening to this one. It is definitely a new favorite.

Thank you to NetGalley, Dreamscape Media, and Kortney Keisel for the audiobook. These thoughts are my own.

This book gave me all the heart-eye emoji feelings. It was so fun, and so sweet, and just so...~I literally just happy-sighed~

The Summer of Jane Hayes was perfect, with all the romance tropes being carried out-and subsequently ruined by-Walker Collins. The rogue! It cracked me up. But it also made me so sad for Walker and how empty his life was. Enter Jane Hayes and her summer.

Have fun reading this book!

As for the narrators, they weren't my favorite.

This book was too dang cute!

Jane wants to fall in love. Trouble is she lives on a small island where the dateable men are few and far between but she sets her mind to falling in love. Then her best friends brother walker comes back to the island to recenter himself after his golf career starts to crash. She has been in love with Walker for years but he isn't the one to go for... or is he?

I love cutesy romances. They are the very best! The characters are so great and the plot was adorable. I cannot wait to see what comes next in this series.

Returning home helps Walker get his headback in the game and flirting with Jane has feelings coming to the surface. I love all the things they end up getting caught into and it was such a wholesome read!

Am I romance junkie? guilty as charged and the narrator was perfect!

4 stars

Go now and get this book to read. Grab the audio while you’re at it! It’s read by a male and female for the main characters which I loved!!! This was my first book by Kourtney Keisel, but I’ve already added her others to my TBR. I adored this book. It had me smiling or laughing almost the entire time. And I was looking for reasons to have my AirPods in so I could continue listening to it. Although Kortney doesn’t write the others, I love that this is part of a summer series so that I can continue following all the Sunset Harbor characters I now adore!

I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. SO. MUCH!
No seriously. I really loved this book!
I’ve seen someone else compare it to late 1990’s/early 2000’s movie RomComs, and I think that is the perfect description. This would make a great movie (though the book will always be better). It’s just the perfect book.
Jane is absolutely adorable and such a fun person. I loved her positive outlook on life, her love of romance. The tropes that riddled this book, and Jane’s commitment to living her romance dreams, was amazing! I also loved how that mission introduced us to everyone else. Getting to know this amazing island of residents was soo much fun and I am in love with this small coastal town.
I thought Jane’s massive crush on Walker was super cute. The way she always tried to downplay it cracked me up, and the ways he unintentionally delivered on every single trope and micro-trope was hilarious! He was practically a flashing neon sign of how perfect he was for Jane! But I loved how they had to slowly figure things out between them. The slow burn on this one was reeeaaaaalllll and I LOVED it! Ha!
I’m just gonna share a list of some of my favorite things, because I’ll never stop talking if I don’t make this simpler:
The book club at the retirement home
Grandma DeeDee
Jane’s crush
Walker’s niece and nephews
Jane’s parents
Jane’s love of romance
All the trope mishaps
All the ways Walker got it right
The rice in her hair
When she caught him teaching his nephew to golf
When he taught her to golf
The kisses. Ohhhh, the kisses!
The fireworks!
The entire island. All of it.
The whole scene on the boat!
Capri’s friendship with Jane
Walker’s talks with his first coach
He falls harder
Did I mention the kisses?
The pancakes
The entire scene in the rain. The grand gesture! Allllll of it!
That epilogue! *all the heart eyes!*

Honestly, Kortney was made to write this book. I’m obsessed! It was SO good and I just know Jane and Walker will get to take up space inside my head forever and ever. I love them. I love this book. If you like romcoms at all, read this!

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Narrated by Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington — Another duet narration! I’m really a fan of this narration style. Can it take off as a thing? Because I would listen to this every time, especially for RomComs!

**Many thanks to the author, Dreamscape Media, and NetGalley for the copy. A positive review was not required. All thoughts are my own.

A good series starter, with a romance trope crazy heroine Jane, hoping to catch a local guy, except that the one guy who catches her eye (since middle school) is off limits due to the ultimate trope of being her best friends brother. Walker is pretty cool and seems to show up at all the places of Jane's contrived dates. He has professional issues he needs to sort out. Great summer read, nothing earth shettering but fun read.

I listened to the book and the dual voices was great!

#netgalley #summereverafter

📚 Summer Ever After by Kortney Keisel
🔖 Series: Falling for Summer
🎧 Format: Audiobook
🎙️ Narrated by: Amanda Friday & Andy Harrington
📕 Genre: Romance
📖 Read: July 2024
✨ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦. 𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨.”

‧₊˚✧ 𝑻𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑬𝑺 ✧˚₊‧
ꕥ Best Friends Brother
ꕥ Sports Romance
ꕥ Hard to Get
ꕥ Forbidden Love

I definitely enjoyed this book more than the last one 1 read in this series.

There were times when Jane annoyed me. I found myself rolling my eyes at her attempts to seduces all the towns men. Honestly, the girl tried way too hard. I also found that she lived in the past and referred to the silly BFF code she had made when she was a child way too much. I'm not sure why Jane put so much pressure on herself to fall in love before the end of summer. It really made her come off as desperate.

I did enjoy Walkers chapters. His story seemed to have more depth and growth in the end. I could have done without his sister though. Her interference between Walker and Jane seemed unnecessary.

I do think this book was a great way to begin the series. It introduced a lot of the other character that we see in the other books and some of the tropes to expect. Overall, a decent summer read.

𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥.𝘢𝘯𝘥.𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨/

Thank you NetGalley, Dreamscape Media and Kortney Keisel for this audiobook. This is my voluntary, honest review.

Genre: Romance


Jane is ready to settle down and have her happily ever after. She is determined to find her man and to do so she is applying tropes from romance books to her personal life. Everything is going okay until her high school crush, Walker, comes back home for a few weeks. Walker also happens to be her best friend’s brother.

Walker is a professional golfer who is back home while he heals from an injury. He just wants to focus on getting better so he can leave and get back to golfing. That is until he saves Jane’s life…literally. He can’t keep her out of his mind.

Will Jane break the pact with her best friend to not date Walker?

This was such a cute read! If you want a cute, clean, sports romance, this is for you.

I love that Jane finally gets a chance with her high school crush! And I love the whole best friend’s brother thing!

I think I could have done without the whole issue of the pact. I know the pact was made while the characters were in high school, but they’re adults now and Jane is still wanting to abide by it.

Summer Ever After, part of the Falling for Summer Series, is Jane’s story and it just perfectly Jane. Jane, a lonely diehard romantic, has decided this is the summer she’s going to fall in love. She proceeds with concocting all the possible trope scenarios and situations to create the perfect moment where she falls in love. I adored her positivity and creativity! She seems to account for every single possible option, except for Walker. Not that she doesn’t desire Walker. She does and has since seventh grade, but he's her best friend’s brother and that makes him off limits. Walker doesn’t see this as an issue and once he figures out what Jane is up to, he’s just as creative as Jane. I love that Jane sparks freshness in Walker’s life, and he begins to see that he is not the lone wolf he’s always believed himself to be. I also loved the family dynamics and seeing Walker figure out how to be present again. As with other books in this series, characters overlap, and it is fun to see some of the back story or different angles to the various stories going on at the same time. I enjoyed the audiobook version and being able to see the story in my mind. I thought the narrator did a good job capturing Jane’s bubbly personality.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.

Where have I been?! This is my first book by Kortney Keisel and now I’m kicking myself for not picking up her books sooner! Summer Ever After is an instant favorite that gave me all the romantic feels. I adored this fun, funny, grumpy/sunshine romcom with allll the romantic tropes. It’s the first book in the Falling for Summer series & now I can’t wait to read all the books.

Jane Hayes has declared this the Summer of Jane. She’s written a list of all the romance tropes and is determined to use it to find love with one of the men on Sunset Harbor island. What she doesn’t plan on is the return of Walker Collins, her best friend’s off limits older brother whom she’s had a crush on for years.

Pro golfer Walker Collins’ come home to see if he can recover his golf game after back surgery and a disastrous performance. Though there’s nothing wrong with his swing, his golf game suffers until he reacquaints himself with his little sister’s best friend. Jane’s all grown up & definitely a challenge he can’t resist. But, she wants someone who’ll stay in Sunset Harbor and he’s only here temporarily. Will he be the man of Jane’s dreams or the one to help her find him?

This book was like a love letter to romcoms! I loved all the tropes Jane uses to try to find love. I especially loved the way Walker upended all her plans. She’s the glass half full to his glass half empty and I loved all their witty banter & the sizzling chemistry between them. The tropes were so much fun! I think I lost count after 22!

Some of my favorite moments were:

Sassy grandma
Pink list
Fake choking (food)
All of Jane’s dates
The dating app
Running outta gas
First kiss
Wisdom teeth removal
4th of July fireworks
The storm & grand gesture
(Somewhere Only We Know is stuck on repeat in my mind.)

I read this book, but also listened to it via audiobook format! This book utilizes duet narration. If you haven’t listened to a duet narration before, it’s different from dual narration. The female narrator reads all the chapters from the FMC’s perspective and all the female parts throughout the book and the male narrator reads all the chapters from the MMC’s perspective and also all the male parts. So you may have narrators going back and forth like you’re listening to dialogue from a play. It takes some getting used to, but I really enjoyed it. Both narrators did a fabulous job bringing all these characters to life. Highly recommend this format!

The epilogue & bonus scenes are must reads as well! Loved the introduction to all the characters in this series and now I’m dying to read all the books. Highly recommend this delightful, closed door, swoon-worthy first book in the Falling for Summer series! I received an advanced complimentary copy from the author. All opinions are my own and voluntarily provided.

Thanks to @netgalley and @dreamscape_media for the #gifted audiobook.

Summary: It is the Summer of Jane, in which she falls madly in love with someone and has her happily ever after. Jane thought finding the right man wouldn't be that hard, especially while using all the romantic tropes she'd read in books. Unfortunately for Jane, Walker, her crush and best friend's brother, is back in town foiling all of her plans. Dating Walker cannot happen, but will her foolproof plan come crashing down around her when she can't seem to get past her feelings for him?

Thoughts: It was fun kicking off this series with this story. Jane has such a sunshine personality as opposed to Walker's more cloudy tendencies. I love that every trope Jane tried to make happen on her dates always organically happened with Walker. With a meddling best friend and sister like Capri, it really was hard for them to finally admit what they were feeling towards each other. I like that Walker finally came to his senses and made the big grand gesture happen just for Jane. I highly suggest reading the bonus epilogues, but watch out for that last one (tears...). I was able to listen to the audiobook of this one. Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington did such a great job helping me see the characters come to life. If you're able, I highly suggest the audio.

AUDIObook reivew:

What a fun book! The Falling for Summer series based in Sunset Harbor has been my favorite series of the summer to read. I read the series out of order, but after reading this one I understand why it is Book 1. Kourtney Keisel does such a great job introducing the town and all of the characters that will be in the series. I wish I had read it first!

This book centers on Jane, who just wants to settle down and find her match. She decides to have a summer where she tries to make book trops happen in her life. It was pretty funny to see what she tried to make happen. Walker steps back into her life as a golf player who is trying to get recentered after a tough season. Of the two main characters, Walker was my absolute favorite.

I would categorize this as a sweet romance, perfect for teenagers and older who want a good romantic story with nothing beyond kissing described. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the advance listener copy of this book. A review was not required.

This one is my least favorite of the Falling for Summer Series books I've read so far. I found it way too repetitive, so much so that if I hear the word "trope" mentioned one more time I might just throat punch someone. Jane, the FMC, was unrealistically depicted: gorgeous and incredibly caring and nice, but damn she came across as being SO desperate. Also, what's up with the male population in Sunset Harbor? Why is every single desirable male in this series coming from the mainland? The dual narration was well done. Overall, this one was cute, but not my favorite. Thank you to Dreamscape Media, NetGalley and the author for gifting me with an ALC to review. All opinions are my own.

I adored this fun slightly snarky closed door romance. Walker is cynical and not open to falling in love, and Jane is the opposite, planning how to fall in love in one summer using popular romance book tropes. There are some very funny one liners and a few tender moments too, as they navigate their blossoming feelings for one another. The audiobook is expertly narrated by Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington and is the perfect way to enjoy this delightful romantic comedy.

I think this is one of the first audiobooks I’ve listened to with “duet” narration—where the male narrators does all the male voices, even in the female POV chapters, and vice versa and I absolutely loved it! It makes it so authentic.
Oh sweet Jane. We all have that friend who loves love, and maybe goes a little too hard in trying to make it work, but Kortney captures her pure heart and overzealous approach to finding love in a way that was both tender and hilarious. I was definitely rooting for the “Summer of Jane Hayes.” I loved the diary entries (Kortney nailed the tween/teen angst and longing) and I’m always here for the best friend’s brother taboo. I’m so excited to see more of the other characters in the rest of the series!

I CANNOT EVEN WITH THIS BOOK!!! I finished hours ago and am still grinning like an idiot every time I think of this book. Which is a lot! There are quite a few scenes that will be living rent free in my head for a very, very long time.

The duet narration was perfect! Loved both of the narrators! The parody on tropes, the sizzling chemistry, the witty dialogue, the entire town of Sunset Harbor, Walker's shameless flirting, the laugh out loud moments, the second-hand embarrasment, the emotional connection, and dang, some downright swoony kisses...there is SO much to love and when you put it all together and add in a happily ever after, well, this is what romcom dreams are made of!!