Read if you like:
🏖️ Beachy/Summer Vibes
💒 Wedding Planning
🥈Second Chance Romance
💘 First Love
🙄 Emotional Cheating

When living a lie, and trying to make yourself fit in a box that you just don’t fit into things are bound to blow up eventually, and that is exactly where Sam is at the start of the book.

Sam is engaged and has been avoiding setting a wedding date with her fiancé but when more pressure comes, it leads her home and she then is confronted with her past, and her first love, Wyatt.

Throughout the book Sam is fighting to stay in the box she has been shoving herself in and fighting letting herself out of the box to find happiness that she has lost.

As soon as she runs into Wyatt the emotional cheating almost immediately starts for Sam as Wyatt continues to creep into her thoughts, especially as she sees that she had molded herself into someone else and her Fiancé Jack really doesn’t see her for her but who she has made herself to be for him.

We get a lot of flashbacks of the summers that Sam and Wyatt spent together as they fell in love as kids and then fell apart and haven’t spoken in 11 years.

As Sam gives into who she is she implodes her life all to find a true happiness.

Thank you to GP Putnam Sons for my ARC in exchange for my review!

Many thanks to Putnam Books for my ARC via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.
I loved Monaghan's previous romance, Nora Goes Off Script, and I went into this romance with high expectations. I read it while dog/house-sitting - I started it this morning while spending a little time outside on the hammock until it got too hot and humid for me, and I retreated inside to finish it on a cozy couch instead.
This book didn't work for me. Main characters spending summers together while growing up and starting to date reminded me of Carley Fortune's Every Summer After (which I loved), so perhaps that comparison is another reason I wasn't a fan of this book. The characters were well-defined and the beach setting on Long Island for the majority of the book was lovely. But the big reveal about two-thirds of the way through was something that had felt obvious to me since it first came up much earlier in the book. I also find it really hard to read a romance with blatant emotional cheating, and I had trouble getting through the last quarter of the book.
I've seen plenty of reviews from people that loved this book, so perhaps it's a "me" thing and you'll like it? I hope so!

Well I've found the perfect story to recommend as the 2023 Beach Read book of the summer!

Monaghan has done it again, delivering a contemporary romance of first loves, first heartbreaks and second-chances. Wyatt left everything behind, including the love of his life to heal himself and test his dreams. He's back at the beach house, face-to-face with the girl every country song was written. For years, Wyatt and Sam frolicked in the sand over their summer breaks. Then, they fell in love until a Wyatt witnesses an event that upheaves his life.

After 14 years Sam has finally comes back to beach to plan the wedding she thought she'd have with Wyatt only its NOT with him. Seeing the haunts of her young love, she begins to questions the life she's been living with her fiancee in the city.

What happened to Sam that he'd break her heart, and never look back? He's is and has been the only one who has seen her for who she is, but is it too late? Same Time Next Summer is a romance but its sooooo much more.

I'll recommend this book ALL summer long!

Thank you PENGUIN GROUP Putnam for the complimentary copy.

I read about half of this book and had to stop. While the concept was neat, I’ve read so many books with this type of storyline and I found this book to be fairly predictable.

This was the perfect summer read!
Taking place on Long Island, I could smell the salty air and feel the warm breeze. The story switches from now to then through several summer flashbacks. The characters were quirky, lovable and relatable. I loved Sam and Wyatt’s wholesome friendship as kids and watching them evolve and grow together throughout the years.
This story is about taking chances and following your heart. I got lost in the pages and swept up in that “first love” feeling.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group for a gifted ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Annabel Monaghan is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. “Nora Goes Off Script” was an unexpected delight and “Same Time Next Summer” is following in this lofty footsteps as a smart, insightful romance book for grownup readers who still crave the wind in their hair and the carefree feel of childhood.

When Sam and her doctor fiancé return to her family’s beach house on Long Island, she packs more baggage than what’s in her suitcase. Specifically, a long-flickering torch for beach house neighbor Wyatt, her summer love and the boy who broke her heart when they turned 18. I have little patience for teenage drama typically, but in Annabel’s capable hands, Sam and Wyatt have a genuine, sweet love story that sings and helps you see why it’s following Sam well over a decade later.

With Wyatt back in his parents' home and Sam ensconced in hers, the salt air of the beach brings back more than memories and leaves Sam to wonder: Is she the responsible HR consultant with the sensible soon-to-be-husband - or is she the confident, carefree girl with dreams of art and finding love with the person who has always seen her clearest?

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Sam vacations with her family and fiancé and runs into her first love. Old memories and feelings of what once was come back and make her question what she has now.

I struggled to make connections with Sam and the other characters. I loved the interactions with the family, especially at the beginning, but I just couldn’t find myself liking Sam, Jack, or Wyatt. I really loved Nora Goes Off Script, so I feel as though I was looking for this to be similar. I really felt the romance come alive in that book and it just wasn’t there in this book.

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for this ARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was an ARC received in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Edelweiss, NetGalley, and Penguin for this advanced copy!

I am eternally a sucker for a second-chance romance, flashbacks to former love, and tension with that love getting revisited years later in the same place where it all started. Like, that’s just my THING. It has been my thing since middle school, it will be my thing forever.

So, I loved the premise. I loved the love between Sam & Wyatt and the history between them. I had a hard time at some parts with the characters being frustrating - Sam’s complete lack of a spine, while I understood as a (in the words of Taylor Swift) pathological people pleaser myself, was tough at times.

Overall, this story was sweet, it had me grinning like an idiot for the final 15%, and I am so excited to recommend it to others.

I was looking forward to this one as I’m a big fan of a “summer beachy romance”. For the most part this satisfied me but I found the characters could’ve been fleshed out a bit more. I did however like how it all came together at the end and enjoyed it as a quick sunny day read.

Having loved Nora Goes Off Script, I was so excited to receive an arc of this one! It really is the perfect summer read - nostalgia, beach house, first love, secrets, etc. The story unfolded slowly, I couldn’t wait to found out what had caused the rift between Sam and Wyatt when they were teenagers, and I can say it definitely wasn’t what I expected.
I will say, I found that I definitely had to suspend belief that one of the secrets would’ve remained so until almost the end of the story. And also, Sam’s fiancé Jack was truly such an annoying human being. I get he was a “safe” option for her, but the dude had next to no redeeming qualities.
Overall, I didn’t love the characters as much as I did in Nora, but I would definitely still recommend this book as the perfect pick for a summer or beach read!

Absolutely loved Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan! The storyline is very reminiscent of "Every Summer After" by Carley Fortune which I also loved. For the first half of the book, I couldn't 'unsee' the similarities in the two books, but by the second half, I could feel the seams between the two stories. I was so into the book, I read it in one day and had a little book hangover. I saved this book until I was sitting on the beach and ready to fall into a summer beach read, and it was perfect! Highly recommend this for your summer vacation read!

I received an ARC from NetGalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons in exchange for my honest opinion.

Genre: Women's Fiction, Romance
Spice Level: med (almost closed door)
Tropes: Second Chance, Best Friends to Lovers
Representation: Dyslexia, LGBTQ (side characters in a relationship)
Content warnings are listed at the end (so you can avoid reading them if you don't want any spoilers)

This book, SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER, is filled with warm feelings like a day at the beach.

As I got into it, I felt like the pacing was different because there are multiple chapters that go back in time, filling us in on the past between Sam and Wyatt. This gave the book a nostalgic feel of summers at the beach—something that I experienced a bit in my childhood.

Getting to know Sam at her childhood haunts made me worried about her life. She just seemed like she wasn't really living. I think this is a good question for us to ask ourselves. Not to burn everything in a dumpster fire, but to figure out if we can add joy into our lives if we've lost it along the way.

I was a bit bugged how dyslexia was represented. It just seemed like teachers were off on how to work with it. Is that accurate? I don't know...
Dr. Judy also bugged me (but I think she was supposed to, so it's okay). Seriously? Does she even listen? I was enraged by her analysis!!!

Seeing the transformation in Sam and Wyatt was so sweet and affirming. Love exists. It's worth it. And forgiveness is often necessary.

I really adored so much about this book, and I recommend it for adult readers.

**Content warning: there is infidelity in the plot, teen sex and drinking**

Happy reading!

3.5 stars
It's a good summer read. Told almost entirely from Sam's point of view, the majority of the book is over a week that she and her fiance, Jack, go to her family's beach house. She's been avoiding it for more than a few days for years, afraid of the memories of Wyatt. Being there causes her to reevaluate both her job and her relationship, in addition to trying to be friends with Wyatt
The book was ok but I didn't love it. It was obvious that Jack wasn't right for her and she was trying too much to conform to what he wanted and what her job expected.

It was a decent read but I felt like you could see the ending coming from the very beginning and it wasn’t incredibly interesting getting there.

**3.5 stars

If you like The Summer I Turned Pretty and One True Loves, you need to add this book to your summer TBR.

Sam and Wyatt are beach house neighbors on Long Island; over multiple summers, they become more that just childhood friends. When a major life event changes both of their lives, they drift apart until Sam brings her fiance to her parents' beach house for a week during the summer to plan their fall wedding. What a coincidence that Wyatt is also back at his parents' beach house for the summer. They have both changed over the past years, but what happens when Sam and Wyatt keep being pulled to each other while they are both at the beach?

I loved piecing everything together with the dual timelines; I was not a fan of the miscommunication, and I thought the ending seemed very rushed. Overall, a good beach read that you should pick up this summer!

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for the advanced reader copy.

I am a big fan of Nora Goes Off Script but this book did not have the same charm, connection to the characters, and I never got on board with the romance. I found it highly unbelievable that the main character never googled the love interest in 10 years!!

This was a great first love second chance romance. I enjoyed the way that Sam grew during the book in more ways beyond her romantic life. Wyatt was a total dream hunk with a guitar - a prime book boyfriend! The spice level was medium low - some sex happens but it’s not graphic. The beach setting is idyllic and I love the little town. I would recommend this one for romance lovers!

Thank you to the publisher - I received a complimentary eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book!!! I absolutely loved all the sweet summer nostalgia!! I adored the duel timeline chapters and getting to know these characters both past and present! The book was full of sweet swoony first love, angsty tension, and beautiful second chances!!! I also appreciated the fade to black content. Definitely recommend this as a wonderful summer beach read!

Thank you to #NetGalley and Putnam Books for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion! expected publish date: June 6th, 2023

THE perfect book for a beach trip!!!
Paints such a nostalgic picture of childhood summers✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Jack and Sam aren’t even an option in my mind…
So wish wet got more scenes of Sam and Wyatt together before the end/as adults!
Loved the dual pov but sometimes the structure of the flashbacks was confusing

Childhood friends to lovers and second chance!

After reading and loving Nora Goes Off Script, I was so excited to read Annabel Monaghan's latest. Unfortunately I didn't particularly care for this one - I found the characters to be a bit one-dimensional and the romance didn't feel like an actual adult relationship.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the free e-copy.