⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Audiobook Review

This funny, quirky and romantic summer read is book one of the Falling for Summer series. The series takes place in Sunset Harbor and each book features different residents of the small town island. The characters appear throughout the series, but each book can be read as a standalone. It is such a fun and unique series due to it being written by multiple authors and it takes a “connected series” to a whole new level of fabulous!

Jane believes falling in love is easy, but finding the right guy is the hard part. Jane comes up with a plan to apply all the romance troupes she reads about in various books to every day dating. Walker Collins, Jane’s best friend’s brother and professional golfer comes back to Sunset Harbor. Jane tries her secret plan on Walker and the rest is history.

The narrators for this audio book are Amanda Friday who reads the role of Jane and Andy Harrington who reads Walker. I enjoy a dual narration, and these narrators did it justice. Things to enjoy:

☀️ Romance Obsessed
⛳️ Golf romance
☀️ Secret crush
⛳️ Best friends brother
☀️ Forbidden love
⛳️ Every romance troupe cliche

Thank you to the author Kortney Keisel and Net Galley for the advanced listener copy of the audio book!

Summer Ever After is part of the Falling for Summer series but it will work just fine as a standalone. This story takes place on a fictional island off the coast of Florida, Sunset Harbor.

This is now my third book in the Sunset Harbor series and While this was still a great story this is my least favorite so far. My problem was mostly with Jane. Jane wants to find love but doesn’t want to leave the island. She goes on what she calls the summer of Jane, where she tries to create chemistry with every man on the island using romance tropes. My issue was with how desperate it came off and continued to be through most of the story. Jane was a good character and very likable but this just annoyed me.

Walker is her best friend's brother whom she has been in love with forever but refuses to admit her feelings due to a promise she made her friend when they were kids. Walker is only on the island to work on himself and his golf career and then is looking to return to reality. I liked Walker and I respected why he was trying to push Jane away at certain points but even during both of them going through their enemies-to-lovers phase Jane was still desperately trying to find love with anyone she could find.

Maybe I just have had too many summer books in a row and I am having some Sunset Harbor fatigue. I would love to come back to this book in a few months and evaluate it.

The narrators were great, I enjoyed the two voices.
I've read this book quite a few times and I love it every time. The audio only added to that love.

This is the first book in the Falling for Summer series but the third one I’ve read and so far it is my favorite!!

This one stars Jane, who is looking to find love this summer by dating single guys on the island using romance book tropes. She keeps running into her best friend’s brother Walker though and she knows she can’t cross that line. Walker is a pro golfer who is home at Sunset Harbor after a back injury. He’s working on his game with another island resident.

This book introduced us to so many more characters who will have their own stories later on.

I loved Jane and Walker! Their chemistry was sweet and they had fun together. I loved the ending! So so cute!

I listened to the audiobook for this and enjoyed the duet narration much better this time.

Jane is determined to find love this summer. She’s got a solid plan too…kind of. She’s planning to orchestrate every romantic trope she can think of, hoping it leads to true love. However, the last person she expected to see on the island has just shown up. Walker Collins, the older brother of Jane’s best friend. An older brother she had a crush on in high school but also a crush she swore never to act on. (Yes, those are romance tropes as well, but not ones that Jane was expecting or planning for.) Walker is a professional golfer and is only back on the island to fix his golf swing after back surgery. Right from the start Jane’s plans go horribly and hilariously wrong. I absolutely loved these characters, Jane’s bubbly personality make her instantly likable and Walker’s humor is great. This was such a fun, cozy romance, and the great thing is that this is only the first book in Kortney Keisel’s Falling For Summer series. I look forward to returning to Sunset Harbor real soon. Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington both do a great job with the narration. I’d like to thank Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy of the audio version of Summer Ever After.

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Thank you NetGalley and Kortney Keisel for the opportunity to listen to ARC of Summer Ever After!

Summer Ever After was such a cute rom com! I loved the banter and chemistry between Walker and Jane! Jane is such a fun and loveable character! I felt really connected to her and I just couldn't help but smile as the story played out! Summer Ever After is a fun, cute, quick, light listen! I want to move to Sunset Harbor! The island and community just sound amazing! I loved all the acidental troupes! Summer Ever After really is just a feel cute read!

Have you ever found yourself accidentally on a station showing golf and thought to yourself, "man this is intense!" ... Yeah, me either. BUT ... after reading Summer Ever After you'll definitely stop to check for Walker before changing to a different channel. Seriously. If anyone was going to get me to enjoy golf, it is Walker Collins.

Jane has created a foolproof plan to finally find love and that plan involves two main components: 1. basically every single male on Sunset Harbor (except her best friend's brother, obviously) and 2. an extensive list of romance tropes. With those two items, how could her summer not end in a cacophony of love?

Unfortunately for Jane, her tropes keep ending in disaster and Walker Collins (hello best friend's brother!) just happens to be the one showing up to rescue, implement, intervene and ruining romance tropes for her forever.

Needless to say this is a fantastic summer romcom with excellent banter and the narrators, Amanda Friday and Andy Harrington, did an amazing job at bringing these two even more to life.

This is a quick, fast-paced read with AWESOME banter and the worst part is just that the story ends. I am officially a fan of all things Sunset Harbor.

Thank you so much to netgalley, Dreamscape Media, and Kortney Keisel for this audiobook copy of Summer Ever After! It was an absolute delight.

A fun summer flirty romance with all the romance trope checklist and golf. Jane and Walker's banter is next level cute and funny, I was walking my dog while listening to the audiobook with a smile and the occasional laugh I could not keep contained.

This book is SERIOUSLY FANTASTIC.

The characters are so much fun. Jane is LOVELY, I want to know her, I want to hang out with her. She loves books, she is on the hunt to have her own trope filled love story, and she is so brave! Walker is the flirty, funny MMC everyone loves, and he is consistently ruining her plans— and not on purpose!! Their banter is top notch, their flirtation is so fun, their “forbidden romance” is so fun to watch.

And this book has so many good tropes!! Obviously, it has to because of the premise. But it’s so perfect!!

Wearing his number, reads her her favorite book, saving their life, teaching a sport (with arms wrapped around them), best friends brother, professional athlete, taking care of someone when they’re sick… and all of it is seriously so fun.

If you want a seriously so fun romcom without the heavy stuff of life, with a light dose of drama because— you need it in romance!!— READ THIS BOOK IMMEDIATELY,

Bonus points for audiobook because the narrators are great!! I love Amanda Friday every time I listen to her. And Andy Harrington is fantastic as Walker. 🧑‍🍳💋

This book is definitely summer vibes!

Had so much fun with this romcom! It’s funny, cute and romantic. Plus a beach town setting is a bonus.

The characters have fantastic banter that had me laughing out loud.

A quick summer read that’ll make you laugh & swoon!

This was such a sweet, summer beachy vibes kinda romance. I loved the golf aspect, and I enjoyed the cutesy closed door romance. This is the perfect book to sit on the beach with.

You could say that I’m officially in my summer romance era. Thank you NetGalley for letting me listen to this audibook ARC. I’m on such a roll at the moment 😆

This is my fourth book by this author, and I’ve enjoyed each of the stories that Kortney has written. I will always support my clean romance authors 🙌🏼

The story had really cute island vibes and has every romance trope you could think of (the whole premise is that Jane is trying to find ✨the one✨ using your classic book tropes). I WILL say, her approach and… tenacity felt a little cringy to me 😅 Both the FML and MML were not my personal cup of tea. Walker is the childhood best friend’s older brother, which would have been cute but he just was too cocky for me to vibe with.

I loved meeting the different side characters through her experiment and can see some great set up for this multiple author book series.

Btw this book is on KU, so I did read it while I was listening.

Well this was ADORABLE.

* best friend's brother / forbidden romance
* small town
* closed door (just kisses/make-outs)
* Dual POV

This was just really cute! Centered around our FMC who is determined to find the love of her life and is trying to use all of her favorite romance tropes to find her guy! This totally backfires and the guy that keeps saving her from some dreadful attempts at love, is her best friend's brother (who is supposed to be off limits).

This was a super cute, low angst, perfect beach read kind of romance. Audiobook was great!

Rating: 3.5 ⭐️

Really loved this book.
It was the perfect amount of romance while still staying sweet.
I loved Jane and Walker- they were adorable together.
This whole town makes me happy- I can’t wait to get to know the rest of the citizens.
I loved all the cute tropes that Jane tried out on people- it made for some awkward/funny dates.
I listened to this one on audio and loved the narrators. Both did such a great job- I love having a male and female narrator.
Can’t wait to read more by this author and more in this series!

First in a new series, clean romance

I listened to the audiobook and was wondering if it negatively impacted my opinion. Looking at the rating and high reviews, I am more convinced it may have.

Walker's chapters, narrated by Andy Harrington, were completely fine. I enjoyed them.
Jane's chapters, narrated by Amanda Friday, I did not enjoy. It came off annoying and kind of campy. I thought the whole trope thing was a cute concept, but was so annoyed by it. I think it may have been the narration more than the writing.

Also, Capri's name annoyed me so much. Both narrators pronounced it CAP-Ree (not kuh-pree like normally pronounced). I thought at first it was a narrator thing, but both said it the same way. So maybe an author thing? IDK but it was so annoying.

Basically, I rarely read physical books. Audiobooks allow me to multi-task. I am on the fence whether I will pick up more books in this series. I know I didn't like it well enough to read it in print. It will depend on whether or not Amanda Friday is brought back as a narrator.

I received an advance audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

Dreamy setting! I enjoyed the golf aspect too. I need more golf romances!

Unfortunately, I struggled connecting with this one. There were elements that tripped me up.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for the chance to review an ALC.

4/5⭐️
1/5🌶️

Jane Hayes has dubbed this summer as the “Summer of Jane”. She’s going to use all of her favorite tropes from romance novels to finally snag the love of her life, no matter what it takes. It takes little time for her to realize, however, that real life romance is rarely as easy as they make it out to be in books.

Walker Collins is off his game, literally. He’s vowed to get back to his roots and basics in order to get back into his golf game groove. This means heading back to his hometown and to get back to where his love for golf first started. If his path just so happens to cross with Jane, his sister’s best friend, all the better for him.

Jane loves her hometown, and Walker’s reemergence has made living here a little tougher this summer. After crushing on him since she was young, she finds it hard to keep him at arms length, when all he keeps doing is pulling her closer. Will Jane finally be able to find love this summer?

This book was so cute! I love the best friend’s brother trope, and it was adorable how self-aware the book was about romance tropes. It was a delightful little romcom, leaving me with a smile on my face.

Tropes in this story:
✨Best Friend’s Brother
✨Forced Proximity
✨Found Family
✨Cozy Beachside Setting
✨Secret Relationship

🎧🎧 Book Review 🎧🎧 The Summer of Jane Hayes…it has been declared! When Jane tells her book club that she wants to bring the tropes they read to life and find real life love, book lovers around the world will rejoice! In the first book of the Falling for Summer series, Kortney Keisal does a splendid job allowing the reader to fall in love with the island of Sunset Harbor and meet some of the characters of this charming little town. Summer Ever After is a beautiful and breezy summer read, delightfully narrated! I happily put my AirPod in and dug my toes in the sand while my kids played and binged this on the Delaware seashore! Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Review is on Goodreads and will be posted on instagram closer to publication date and on Amazon when published!

This was a super sweet, swoony and utterly romantic dual POV best friend's older brother, forbidden love story between Jane, a romance loving girl looking to fall in love over the summer using different romance book tropes and Walker, a pro golfer stuck in a rut who comes back to his Florida island home of Sunset Harbor hoping to fix his game.

The first in a new kissing only Falling for Summer romance series by some of my fav indie authors, this was a strong start that introduces a cast of characters I can't wait to read more about in the next books and was perfect for fans of authors like Jenny Proctor, Emma St. Clair and Melanie Jacobson.

I loved how Jane was so optimistic and never gave up on finding her own happily ever after. I also loved the way Walker learned to reconnect with his family and fight for the one he loved even though a relationship between them was complicated. The grand gesture ending was perfect and I absolutely loved this newest book from Kortney Keisel!!

Many thanks to NetGalley and the author for allowing me to read an early digital and audio copy. It was even better the second time around as an audiobook! I voluntarily read this book and all thoughts and opinions are my own. Highly recommended for fans of other Golf romances like Annah Conwell's The perfect putt and Tara Sivec's Kiss my putt. I didn't expect to enter my golf romance era but I am totally here for it!

"I'm Jane Hayes, always happy, always looking on the bright side. But if I've learned anything in the last few years, it's that a person can be happy and lonely at the same time."

"Walker Collins is a walking romance trope. Nothing has ever been so annoying and so satisfying at the same time."

Read if you like:
* Best Friends Brother
* Off Limits Romance
* Opposites Attract
* Secret Crush
* Dual POV
* Pro Golfer MMC
* Small Island Setting
* Part of a series/can be read as a stand alone

Kortney Keisel is a master at creating chemistry and tension with a glance, a simple touch, and her wit!

This book is full of humor, witty/flirty banter, and lots of heart, along with enough RomCom tropes and micro tropes to satisfy even the most ardent lovers of romance.

I adored both Walker and Jane. Walker is a flirty, confident, pro golfer who has returned home to Sunset Harbor to fix his golf game. Jane, or Pollyanna as Walker likes to call her, is a lover of romance. She is positive, outgoing, loyal and.....lonely. She sincerely believes that she can fall in love during what she dubbs "the summer of Jane Hayes" by using all of her favorites romance tropes. I love how all of the tropes actually worked, just not in the way Jane planned.

I loved getting a glimpse of the MCs for the other books in this series. Especially the future MMCs that were Jane's dates!

Favorites:
* Oasis Retirement Book Club
* Diary entries as flashbacks
* BFF contract (I have a love/hate relationship with this - IYKYK)
* Pink list
* Grandma Deedee
* "He's not my blind date."
* Pollyanna
* Walker playing golf with his little nephew
* "Playing it where it lies"
* Golf gut & family gut
* Post surgery Jane
* "I'll take care of you Jane. Don't worry."
* First kiss (and all the others too!)
* Golf lessons
* Getting Stranded
* Grand gesture

I had the opportunity to listen to the audiobook after reading this book and it did not disappoint. The narrators were so emotive and really fit the characters. The pacing of the narration was fantastic, it had a really nice flow that made it fun to listen to and easy to get lost in.

This is the first book in the Falling for Summer series and if this book is any indication, it's going to be a good summer!

I would 100% recommend this book/audiobook to anyone who loves romcoms!!!

*Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ALC of this book, all thoughts and opinions are my own.