This was my first Samantha Parks book and it was a delight. I love meeting a couple already together without the whirlwind drama of the will they won't they. Although this book has that in another way as we see Anna and Nikos try and figure out if their futures include each other.
This was a delightful read set in a beautiful place that truly jumps off the page. I wished I could go to Santorini from the jump and Samantha just makes it truly come alive.

Synopsis:
Escape to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini for the wedding of the year…
Anna has the perfect life on the island of Santorini with her gorgeous vineyard-owning boyfriend Nikos, and she travels the world for work. So why does she feel that something is missing?

When Anna’s best friend Elena gets engaged, she should be celebrating with her, but instead it seems to cause cracks in her own relationship that she never saw coming.

Nikos is thrilled that Anna's career is going from strength to strength, but being without her so much has left him feeling disconnected in ways that could have devastating consequences for their future.

As celebrations get underway for the wedding of the summer, secrets will be revealed, and ultimatums will be given. In the end, Anna and Nikos must decide whether their love story can have the happy ever after they both desperately want…

This was a sequel . But you can read alone. It was a very intense love story. Anna loved her Greek boyfriend but loved her career as a travel photo. The Greek island descriptions were amazing. I loved the story but the hen weekend was weird. We got the right ending. Funny how not telling people can get you into a real mess. A fab read.. Could not put it down.

Beautiful, beautiful Santorini comes to glorious life in this book. I will say that this is a love story between the same sex. So if you are easily offended by things like this then just don't read it. But if like me, you think love is love and should be embraced and celebrated then you will throughly enjoy this lovely love story.

Love going to santorini and this book was a ticket the place,. The unexpected changes that Anna encounters will make her or break her.

Anna travels the world as a photographer and while her boyfriend loves her passion for photography, he doesn’t love that it keeps her away from home more than half of the year. They struggle to figure out what’s most important to each of them: saving the relationship or their dreams.

I think my main struggle is that there was very little character development and then they’re having sex (open door) or having these seemingly forced fights. I just didn’t care about the relationship. She knew the dilemma in the very beginning so it just jumped right in but also drew it out unnecessarily. The same can be said about the secondary characters. There was a lot of “oh that’s so Elena” but it felt like I wasn’t in on the joke.

The author did a good job with the internal dialogue and helping us to feel Anna’s loneliness in making this decision. There just wasn’t enough development on Nikos for me to root for the relationship. I wanted her to stay because I’m all about forming roots and having community but not for Nikos specifically.

Lastly, the overly descriptive love scenes for gay characters are not my cup of tea. I think when this is included, it should be labeled as LGBT as well as Romance.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Collins UK/One More Chapter for the ARC!

Sometimes I'm in the mood for cosy, romantic reads, and that was my mood when I chose this. I thought the cover was very colourful and pretty, I was drawn to it, and hoped that this would be a nice book to escape with.

I liked the protagonist, but I didn't find myself very interested in any of the other characters, or connect with the story as well as I'd have liked. I sometimes felt like it was a little too good to be true, too sugar-coated.

This book probably would catch my eye if I saw it in a bookshop or library, and it was a light, pleasant enough read. A book like this is the type of thing that I might read once, if it's what I'm in the mood for, and then I typically pass it on to someone else to enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a free copy to review.

A quick, easy and fun read that was well written with a compelling storyline and well developed characters. I loved the setting too and the descriptions made me feel like I was on holiday in Greece reading this round a pool. I read it in one sitting.

Escape to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini for the wedding of the year...

Anna has the perfect life on the island of Santorini with her gorgeous vineyard-owning boyfriend Nikos, and she travels the world for work. So why does she feel that something is missing?

When Anna’s best friend Elena gets engaged, she should be celebrating with her, but instead it seems to cause cracks in her own relationship that she never saw coming.

Nikos is thrilled that Anna’s career is going from strength to strength, but being without her so much has left him feeling disconnected in ways that could have devastating consequences for their future.

As celebrations get underway for the wedding of the summer, secrets will be revealed, and ultimatums will be given. In the end, Anna and Nikos must decide whether their love story can have the happy ever after they both desperately want...

What a fun read, I almost feel like I am in Greece myself while reading this book. A quick read, I finished it in just under an hour, it would have been the perfect book to take on a flight to help get you in the holiday mood.

The charaters are believeable and we really do see their struggles and conflicts as they each discover what it is that they really want from life.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in return for my honest review.

I love Samantha Parks books so I was so excited and thrilled to get my hands on this one! What way to beat the winter blues than to escape to Santorini with our heroine Anna. I was so excited to read and see how Anna and Nikos love story turns out, we get to see all this play out over her BFFS wedding. It was a quick read. Filled with great writing and dialogue. I felt like I was getting an intimate look into someone’s life. Highly enjoyed and recommend this one!

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Escape to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini for the wedding of the year…
Anna has the perfect life on the island of Santorini with her gorgeous vineyard-owning boyfriend Nikos, and she travels the world for work. So why does she feel that something is missing?

When Anna’s best friend Elena gets engaged, she should be celebrating with her, but instead it seems to cause cracks in her own relationship that she never saw coming.

Nikos is thrilled that Anna's career is going from strength to strength, but being without her so much has left him feeling disconnected in ways that could have devastating consequences for their future.

As celebrations get underway for the wedding of the summer, secrets will be revealed, and ultimatums will be given. In the end, Anna and Nikos must decide whether their love story can have the happy ever after they both desperately want…

I received a free copy of, The Summer Wedding in Santorini, by Samantha Parks, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Anna is a wonderful character, her boyfriend not so much, I did not like him at all. Going to Santorini for a summer of her close friend, changes her in ways she never expected. I thought this was a nice read.

Anna's career is taking off, but why does it feel like her partner by is asking her by to give it all in up? As her friend becomes engaged, her world unravels slightly, and Anna has to work out what it is that she truly wants.

I enjoyed this book; there's plenty of idyllic Greek settings to make this escapist but it's also a story that at times had me feeling incredibly sad for Anna. The author has done a great deed for girl power and solidarity that I hasn't seen play out in a book of this nature before too.

Unfortunately I was unable to read this book on my mobile.
I couldn't get it in mt NetGalley shelf.
What a pity.

Good luck with the book.

This was a sweet easy breezy read set on the gorgeous island of Santorini. Anna Linton is at crossroads in life - her career is stalled, love life in shambles and dealing with the death of her estranged father. Through all this chaos she's reluctantly heading to the Mediterranean to sell a house she inherited from her recently deceased, estranged father. This was a sweet, new beginnings romance story with some family drama as well. I will be recommending this book to my book club!



**Thank you NetGalley, Harper Collins UK and Samantha Parks for this arc in exchange for an honest review**

I found Anna grating. I know the point of the story was the miscommunication with boyfriend Nikos, but honestly, the lack of a single real conversation between the two who have a 5 year relationship was just annoying after awhile. A single conversation at so many points would have solved their problem. I found myself really wishing they would either talk or just break up already.