Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

“Putting a person back together isn’t easy, but if you’re smart about it you can reassemble yourself in a totally different, better way.”

It’s been over a decade since Sam spent time at her parents’ Long Island beach house…she remembers the exact summer because it was the summer she was destroyed by Wyatt, the boy next door. Sam is finally returning, reluctantly, and bringing her perfect, routine-oriented, fiancé, Jack. Nothing about Jack is ever a surprise and that’s exactly what she wants.

When Sam arrives, she discovers Wyatt is spending the summer writing music at his family’s beach house next door and all the memories come flooding back. As Sam reconnects with the Long Island (read: artistically chaotic) version of her parents and the version of herself she left at the beach long ago, she will face a decision about who she is and who she wants to be.

This story is told in past and present and from the perspectives of both Sam and Wyatt. I thought it was a perfect beach read with feel-good family moments, just the right level of teenage angst in the past chapters, and a summery love story.

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