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.

First of all the voices , phenomenal.
The setting of the book was so cute.
I love that is about a golfer for some reason is cute. And the eternal lover of tropes too damn cute.
Love the characters and their interactions. I like that is a close door book. It feels right for the book.
Totally enjoyed and now I want the rest of the books in the series

Everyone who loves a good romance book has their favorite tropes. What if you had a list of your favorite trips and used that to find a guy? That is this book with a whole lot more. So fun. Entertaining and one I have added to my will read again pile. Great romcom book club pick.

Summer Ever After by Kortney Keisel is a delightful splash into summer romances and I was loving listening to this book.
Summer Ever After is the type of story that you will wish to be able to just hide away and binge read because Walker and Jane are such fabulous characters and their chemistry checks all the boxes. Seriously, from the moment Jane and Walker first show up on the page together, it was just all sorts of adorable charm and flirtatious goodness. Jane was willing to put it all out there to find love; it was comical and I loved how it all worked out. I thought it was fun how Jane was determined to try all the romance tropes. It was part hilarious and part cringe when the tropes went wrong, though I loved how Walker always stepped right into them. Walker honestly was so cute and I applauded when he got his flirt on.
With a hot pro golfer, best friend’s off-limits brother, small town island vibe, and a hopeless romantic determined to pull out all the tropes in real life to find true love, this book is sure to be a winner. Do not miss reading it.
The audiobook version was such a treat to listen to. I particularly enjoyed the duet and found both narrators to be entertaining. One of my favorite scenes I thought the audiobook just knocked out of the park was when Walker picks Jane up after her wisdom teeth were removed. The way the narrators brought that part to life felt like I was watching a show. I recommend it.
Thank you Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for the advance listening copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Read two books from this series and its just keep on getting better and better with each book i believe. This one has sports romance vibe with brother's best friend and forbidden romance vibe 🤌 love this combination so much.
The narration was as usual smooth and easy breezy. The vibe of this series is so beautiful that literally I feel I am a part of this book series now. The characters are charming and beautifully written in this too. I am eagerly waiting for the next book now.

Reread via audio—love this duet narration!
This was a reread for me—the Summer of Jane Hayes and the start of the Falling for Summer multi-author series is just so much fun!

Things I Loved:
-Piece of rice
-Flashback diary entries
-Grease on the cheek
-“‘Maybe I need stitches.’ ‘It’s not deep. Head wounds just bleed more.’ His expression turns skeptical. ‘Are you just saying that so I’ll bleed out and die?’ ‘It’s not a bad plan, but then I’d have to discard your body somewhere, and that’s more effort than I want to exert on a Wednesday night.’ ‘Saved by laziness. Lucky me.’”
-“Another romance trope bites the dust.”
-Nickname
-Golf with Jack ♥️
-Shared opinions on the yuckiness of “good girl’ 🙌🏻🤣
-Blind date…fail 😂
-“That’s my wife” moment 🙈
-The giant check
-The song (and the whole ending) 🫠

This was such a funny, unique, best friend’s brother story—a small island town, summer vibes, so much fun with tropes, and a perfect HEA. It is a perfect kick off to the Falling for Summer series!
These stories are interconnected while remaining standalone. The connections are so fun, right from the start, it has me wanting every single story to come!