If you are looking for an easy quick summer rom-com to read then this is exactly what you need. My one complaint is that there is no steam in these scenes and so that was lacking for my personally. Still a decent book over all.

Jenny's finally ready to settle down and made it her mission to use this summer to find a man using romance book tropes. Walker is her best friend's brother who's in town after an injury and slight issue with his girlfriend to recuperate. Since it's not planning to stay and he's her best friend's brother he's not on the list. But he sure seems to keep running into her while she's on her way to finding love.

There was book tropes all around and it was such a fun read seeing how it all played out. Even the whole off limits bff brother trope was a main one. I loved watching as we came across every dating antic she was trying to pull off miserably and finding themselves in trouble a few occasions and even if this book was easy to predict this book was plenty entertaining to read anyways. Now I wanna get ahold of the next books.

Also I want to point out that I did get a hold of the audiobook and it really made the experience of reading this all the more better. The pacing was fine the actors were good and overall when it came to the audiobook portion it really enhanced my reading experience.

This book was so much fun!! Kortney is a genius for writing in different romance tropes as apart of Jane’s journey to finding love. I thoroughly enjoyed this read and how it set the tone for the rest of the books in the series. The narrators did a great job and I was sad when the book was over.

I just love these books so much! Even with all the different authors I still enjoy them all so far! Might have to go buy them now

For me, this one was just a little too cheesy.
I couldn’t relate to Jane. Her desperation for a relationship overshadowed any self-love, making her actions cringeworthy at times. Walker, on the other hand, was a charming and genuine character who deserved better. The "conflict" keeping them apart felt forced and didn’t make a ton of sense. It was a distance trope but they both lived in Florida lol. Like I’m pretty sure the professional golfer will be fine training in another part of Florida? Overall, it has Hallmark vibes with familiar tropes. Not sure I'll continue the series, but I'm definitely open to more golf romances!

This was such a cute and fun book! I loved the premise of it being Jane is trying to find love by planning dates with local boys through book tropes. And Walker is the forbidden best friends older brother back in town after a surgery and problems with his pro golf career. This was a light read I really enjoyed and I love that this book introduced so many of the next books MMC’s and a few FMC’s. I’m excited to keep listening to these books!

❤️Best Friend’s Brother
🧡Golfer MMC
💛Hometown Girl Next Door FMC
💚She’s trying to find love with book tropes
🩵Start of Series

Excuse me while I run to the next book in this interconnected character series!

Final Rating: 4⭐️, 1🌶️

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an ALC of this book in exchange for my honest and free review.

I loved how this book called out all the romance tropes! It was such a clever use of all the tropes haha! The string of bad dates was hilarious, but I loved how Walker kept showing up at the right time. Jane and Walker’s chemistry was sizzling and their banter made this book one I couldn’t put down. I loved the flashbacks of Jane’s childhood diary. The burn was slow, but not too slow to give up rooting for them.

The only reason I gave it 4.5 stars is because I wish Jane would have talked to Capri, her best friend and Walker’s sister, sooner so she could really lean into her feelings a little earlier.

I listened to the audiobook and it was my first duet narration! So cool! And Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington voices were exactly what you’d picture! They did a fabulous job!

I absolutely adored the audiobook of Summer Ever After! The voices of Walker and Jane were so perfect and I loved the duet performance really making the story come to life!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

I am a big fan of this series and this was such a cute way to kick off the series. This was such a sweet story and loved seeing some of the connections made in other books.

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for giving me the opportunity to listen to this audiobook!

Like romance book tropes? Well this book has got them! Every last one! It was Super cute. Full of banter. Closed door romance (zero spice! Which is okay!) You will eat up this story up of Jane and Walker. Jane spent her entire life in their hometown. Walker is the hometown hero - a famous golfer. Jane has known him since 7th grade when he and his family moved to the island. She never went for Walker because she was best friends with his sister. So will they end up together? Read and find out!

Here we have another perfectly sunny summertime audiobook to recommend. I think it took me a total of 48 hours to listen to this entire thing. I was feeling it and the narration by @amandafridayaudio and Andy Harrington was moving it right along. Long live duet-style narration!! 👏🏻👏🏻

In this best friend’s brother romcom, one of my favorite elements was Jane’s honor that she showed to her best friend. She really wasn’t going there with Walker full send until she knew it wouldn’t ruin her friendship with Capri. It was just really sweet.

I’m not going to lie to ya, it was hard for me to explore a story with an estranged brother that comes back and makes an effort. Some things are too real. When Walker starts to experience true relationships with his niece and nephews— that’s the magic of life, ya know? I really appreciated how he owned his faults in creating the distance with his family, and then took actionable steps to bridge it.

The summer of Jane experiment itself had so many laugh out loud moments in this book. I don’t want to spoil any of the chuckles for you, but I’m obligated to tell you that I laughed a lot!

Listen to this if you want to laugh, and experience what it’s like to fall in love with someone you have always told yourself you just can’t have.

Spice: 🫑 (kisses)

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!