Thank you Net Galley for allowing me to receive this book for an honest review.

What would you do if you had it all? Good life, wonderful fiancee and you run into a past love and all those feelings come back.
This is what happens to Sam when she goes to visit a wedding venue. She has a wierd feeling that something is not right.
Then she runs into an old flame named Wyatt. And she starts to have old feelings resurface.

I highly recommend this book. It's is one of those books you want to find out what happens...

This book was really cute I wasn’t a fan of the “then” “now” and how that was written BUT I really enjoyed this read it gave super cute summer feels and I have several friends I will be recommending this to!

4.5 rounded to 5 for good reads.

“You cheat because you think it’s going to make you someone else, that it’s going to save you from your own damn misery. And that’s the lie you’re telling yourself.”

“Another person is not going to turn you into anything, but who you already are.”

“Sometimes you have to walk away from all the things you don’t want to make room for the future. Blank canvas.”

I totally adored this book. It’s a perfect summer read with charming characters and exceptional pacing.

I was totally invested from start to finish. The progression of the story and the relationships felt so natural. I actually forgot I was reading several times. Reading this book was like watching a movie play out in my head. Effortless reading is hard to achieve so I’m always psyched when an author is able to craft a story like this.

This was one of my most anticipated reads of the summer and it didn’t disappoint. I’m really excited to see what Annabel Monaghan comes up with next.

Annabel Monaghan has written the next feel-good summer romance for 2023. Filled with likable characters and an ideal beach setting, readers of Elin Hilderbrand, Emily Henry and Suzanne Park will love Same Time Next Summer.

Sam’s life appears to be perfect - a great job in Manhattan and an ideal fiance. When she returns to her family’s Long Island beach house to scout out wedding venues, her teenage memories come flooding back including her romance with neighbor Wyatt. Sam starts to question her life choices and begins to rediscover her true self.

A second-chance romance filled with relatable characters. You will route for the main character, Sam, as she grows throughout the novel. A sweet, light and pleasurable read for the summer. Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Dutton for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

A fun beach read by the author who wrote Nora Goes Off Script. What happens when you come face to face with your first love 14 years later, when you bring home your fiance? Sam is engaged to Jack, a doctor who has strict rules about everything. Sam has molded herself into the perfect doctor's fiance, bending to his wishes without expressing her own. One weekend they go to the family's house on Long Island and next door is Wyatt, the one who got away and broke her heart when she was 16. Over the course of that summer, Sam begins to take stock of her life and finally confronts Wyatt about what happened so long ago. She realizes she has never gotten over Wyatt, and will have to decide whether she wants to marry Jack, or take a second chance on Wyatt.

Monaghan writes the most delightful love stories. Perfect summer read that is well written with likable characters. Set on the beach on Long Island, Sam takes her uptight fiancé Jack to the place where she grew up. Her hippie like parents and their clutter filled home cause a bit of tension among the young couple. And to top it off, Sam's first love Wyatt lives next door. Jumping from the idyllic teenage years spent on the beach with Wyatt to her present day choices, Sam starts to question what will really make her happy. And did she ever fall out of love with Wyatt?
Thanks to Net Galley and Penguin Random House for an early read.

Loved every page and would highly recommend!

This book guys 😍 I hate to compare books too much but it definitely gave me Every Summer After vibes but in a different way. I absolutely loved it. Nora Goes Off Script was one of my fav romances of last year but now I think Annabel Monaghan has topped it. This book is everything I love about a summer read and it was the perfect beach read for me. Wyatt gave the perfect swoony main character vibe. I loved Sam and her growth throughout the book. What I loved about Monaghan’s first book was how relatable and genuine the communication and interactions felt and she does it so well again in this one. I wanted 200 more pages of it! That intoxicating, first love nostalgia is done to perfection in this one. It’s a book you immediately want to reread after turning the last page.

Read if you like:
▫️second chance romance
▫️childhood friends to lovers
▫️nostalgic settings

Totally bingeable audiobook. I listened near constantly while unpacking in my new house, and it was the perfect companion.
The story is about a childhood love that goes sour, but has a second chance. I’ve read similar plots before, and I’m a bit tired of people who are perfect for each other but have some unresolved issue to get through to be happy. However, this has been my favorite of them all, so I’d still recommend it. The unresolved issue wasn’t blatant miscommunication (I’m looking at you, Happy Place), and the passage of time didn’t annoy me as much as Every Summer After.
The ending was too quick—I wanted an extended happy ever after, but it was sweet and satisfying.
Thank you to Penguin Random House for the free audiobook! @prhaudio

Another precious book alert! Last summer, I adored Nora Goes Off Script and Annabel Monaghan is back again with another sweet read- Same Time Next Summer…

After fourteen years, Sam comes face to face with her first love while planning her wedding. Wyatt broke her heart and made her question everything she knew about herself. Memories come flooding back and her connection with Wyatt seems as strong as ever!

Read this one if you are a fan of second chance romances, quirky supporting characters, lovely beach settings, and a hero with a guitar. Same Time Next Summer is a light, lovely closed door romance! Four stars!

Special thanks to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam/ G. P. Putnam’s Sons for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

The perfect summer read! I felt like I could feel the summer breeze off the ocean while reading this. I love a second chance romance and I am quickly becoming such an Annabel Monaghan fan!

I loved this book! It was the perfect read while on our yearly beach vacation. I definatly followed the "Beach Rule" of alwasy putting an umbrella in your drink. I really like a dual POV with romanaces as you get to know quickly how the main characters really feel about each other without it being one sided. I was quick to grab this after enjoying Nora off Script so much.

I adored this book! It shows first loves and first heartbreaks perfectly. I can’t wait to read more from this author. She will be an auto-buy from now on.

Thank you NetGalley and Putnam for the eARC! Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan is a fabulous summer read! Fast-paced, warm, wholesome (sorry ladies, very minimal spice in this one) – I breezed through this on the beaches of the cape last week, and highly recommend this experience from a beach chair, porch, or summer dwelling of your choosing!

This story follows Sam Holloway, a buttoned-up HR consultant who adored her summers at the beach in long island growing up, but has spent the last 13 years avoiding it due to a heart wrenching breakup with her teenage love, and beach town neighbor, Wyatt Pope.

Now 31 and engaged, Sam’s life is seemingly perfect until feelings and questions are stirred up when she and her fiancé jack go back to the long island shore to check out a wedding venue, & find Wyatt is back staying in the house next door.

There’s so much to love about this story—amazing imagery, teenage love, second chance romance, a lovely cast of characters—but I will say I struggled to connect at times, especially with the lookback chapters on Wyatt and Sam’s relationship; perhaps because of the third person POV, or the pace of the writing, it felt rushed and too high level. I’ll also say I had an uncorrected proof so that could be part of it! However, I did feel like the present-day chapters were more immersive, and I resonated with Sam’s first person POV more. Sam is witty and likable as a narrator IMO, even if she does get a tad sketchy relationship wise (lol).

Sam comes from a family of artists, and SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER is a beautiful tribute to the power of creativity, of following your instincts and breaking away from the confines of societal expectations. Writers, artists, musicians and creatives galore will adore this story!

Loved it!! Such a good summer read. Also loved the dynamic of the fiance not understanding the family and how she was returning to her routes and began to feel more connected to it. Wished we had just a smidge more of the past.

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan might be my favorite Summer read so far!

For all of the rom-com lovers out there, this book is like the movie Sweet Home Alabama and the series The Summer I Turned Pretty had a baby. A delightful, nostalgic, swoony baby.

Sam has the perfect life - a challenging yet rewarding career in Manhattan, a happy relationship with her fiance Jack, and she's in the middle of planning their wedding in a few months time. Her parents have a beach house in Long Island, where she has spent every summer of her childhood, and they convince the couple to come visit and tour a possible venue nearby for the wedding.

Record scratch - the only thing is that Sam has not been out to the beach house in over a decade because of the painful reminders that she has been avoiding of her first love. Wyatt, the boy at the beach house next door who she grew up with and fell head over heels for when they were teenagers. And wouldn't you know it, Wyatt is staying at his family's house for the whole summer, and Sam can't help but reminisce on all of her memories with the very first boy that she gave her heart to.

Told in a dual POV in alternating timelines, Sam and Wyatt's story comes to life and we finally learn about the breakup and the traumatic event that turned their families against each other. As they spend more time together in the place where they grew up and eventually fell in love, Sam starts questioning her upcoming marriage, career choices, and the life that she's built in Manhattan. Is there more to life than stability and just getting by with a man who doesn't really know who she is? Can she and Wyatt get past their traumatic falling out and forgive each other?

I loved everything about this book - the childhood nostalgia, the atmospheric backdrop, the growth and maturity between the main characters - and you better believe I'll be recommending this book to all of my friends!

Thank you to NetGalley, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and the author for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest feedback!

A charming dual timeline love story, with misunderstandings and second chances. Sam is reluctant to return to the beach for more than a few days, because she doesn't want to remember her time there with Wyatt, her first love. But her sister and mother have convinced her to come out to look at a possible wedding venue with her fiance Jack. She hasn't seen Wyatt in years, not since he ghosted her after that last summer, and his parents stopped coming to the beach and started renting out their house. But he's back, and Sam's world is shaken.
I absolutely loved Monaghan's NORA OFF SCRIPT, and liked this a lot too. But I'm not as much of a fan of the torn between two lovers/with the wrong man trope, and Jack was definitely the wrong man. As soon as I got to the part where Jack and Sam read books together that he chooses, and they're all meant to teach something, I said oh hell no, Jack's got to go. And he just got worse in my eyes, despite being great on paper. The end was satisfying, but there was some heavy stuff to get through first.

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan 4.5
An engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart.

A sweet second chance romance set in a quaint beach town with likeable characters. I found myself rooting for the main characters and loving the quirky cast of secondary characters. The short chapters kept me wanting to read more and it was light and breezy enough to read over a weekend.

“You’re the cake that looks normal until people dig in and find out it’s spectacular. You’re the chocolate fucking cake, Sam, and you won’t even choose it.”

SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER by @annabelmonaghan

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5/5

I will officially read absolutely ANYTHING @annabelmonaghan writes, including her grocery list! Same Time Next Summer had me swooning! It was the perfect combo of first love, first heartache, finding yourself and all the good and hard stuff that comes with it.

My heart ached so many times for both Wyatt and Sam. And the setting was so spectacular. Every detail made you feel like you were in a small beach town and Sam’s parents house was the most perfect place to cozy up in with all its quirkiness.

Same and Wyatt have known eachother for as long as they can remember and spend their summers together at their neighboring beach houses. Naturally they become eachothers first love and think they’ll be together forever but something happens between the two families that cause them to fall apart from eachother. Now Sam is back to the beach house with her fiancé, Jack, to plan their wedding and none other than Wyatt shows back up.

Wyatt and Sam go through so much in these pages and yet the entire time I could still see them together. It wasn’t so far fetched that it could never happen in real life and as a reader, I found myself cheering for them the entire time!

Dual POV, then/now timeframes, second chance romance, small town beach setting- this book can do no wrong!!

I’m not usually a second chance romance lover but this book was everything!!! I read this book in two days and loved every minute of it. I am so glad I decided to give a second chance romance book a shot because it was so cute

Cute and satisfying summer read. Makes me want to go to the beach. The end felt warp speed and there wasn’t enough yearning for my liking.