Annabel Monaghan has done it again! This is an absolutely perfect romance! I laughed, I cried, I pictured myself reading this on the beach...it was everything I could want! I am normally not a big second chance romance fan. but this was written so beautifully, I fell in love from the very first page!

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book! This book is the perfect way to start summer! I enjoyed the back and forth in time between the past and present. Sam is a great and relatable character. It's both scary and refreshing to try and find yourself in your 30s and decide what parts of your life you love, connect to, and want to change. It feels relaxing to reconnect with your youth and find your path. I enjoyed Sam's family. They're fun and colorful. Wyatt is romantic and stressful in the best way. This book makes me want to go to the beach and find new and old passions. I highly recommend it!

Same Time Next Summer is the perfect summer read to take to the beach or read on the way to your destination. I enjoyed Monaghan's previous book, Nora Goes Off Script, so much that when this one came up, I had to request it. While this one has a good story and is mostly light, with a few serious spots, I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Nora.

What I loved about the book:
-great setting
-good romance build-up
-a good mix of characters
- nostalgic feels of a first love

What stopped me from giving it five stars is that it is a little predictable. It's hard to make second chance love fresh, but based off what Monaghan did with Nora, I was hoping for a new perspective.

runaway bride meets every summer after. i was nervous about this one as I LOVED nora goes off script and sometimes follow ups just dont match the feel and vibe but I think Annabel Monaghan's writing is just perfectly right for me. I really enjoyed her characters, the way they tried to figure themselves out and how they fit together, Its not cheesy or forced and it I enjoyed Sam so much. She's an easy heroine to follow and feel for. I also wish I had her therapist after my first heartbreak! Man, so much good advice there...
Read this for summer on a warm day and enjoy the waves:)

Many thanks to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for the digital ARC!

What I Liked

The writing just flows so beautifully and draws you in from the first page. The story is told in present-day first person from Sam's perspective, with past chapters in third person from both Sam and Wyatt's POV. This is a tricky move to pull off, but I felt like it worked well to give us backstory and a sense of present-day urgency.

I adored Sam's family and how free they felt at their beach house, how they just let their art drive their lives. The were fun side characters who really shed light on who Sam is and how hard she's worked to be different to protect herself.

The banter and ease between Sam and Wyatt is also great. You can really feel that longterm friendship-to-lovers connection between them even as adults who broke one another's hearts.

Like many of my favorite stories, there is a lot of focus on Sam learning to accept herself and choose to do what makes her happy, rather than what makes her feel solid and safe but doesn't bring her alive. I love that self-discovery and self-honesty being the heart of the story, even as it kind of plays out through a love triangle.

What I Didn't Like

At times, I did feel like Sam's fiance felt like one of those "this guy is so obviously wrong for her, ugh" kind of characters, which I hate. Yes, people do get engaged for the wrong reasons some times, but I would've liked to see a bit more humanity out of him at some points in the book to avoid his being a charicature of a tight-laced guy. There are some moments of that here and there, but ultimatley it did feel like he was painted in a way to make us feel no guilt about rooting for Wyatt.

I will also chant my usual refrain that things did kind of wrap up quickly at the end, though I think the foundation was laid for the ending in a way that the quickness did sort of make sense.

In all, I absolutey loved Same Time Next Summer and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good romance, a beach read with depth, and/or a story about a woman overcoming her past to embrace her true self. It comes out on June 6th, but you can put in a preorder right now.

I didn’t love this nearly as much as Nora Goes Off Script. I think it was a decent short summer romance, However I think it was hard to connect to the characters and also think idea of basically not being more mature from the age of 18 to 30 is a bit much. Overall, I’d recommend if someone wanted a second chance summer romance, but I didn’t love this unfortunately.

“You’re the most important person that’s ever been in my life, and you’re not even the most important person in your own.”

In the least surprising turn, Annabel Monaghan writes another book I love.

A cross between The Summer I Turned Pretty and Sweet Home Alabama. This one features first love, then and now timelines, and second chance romance. Same Time Next Summer is your 2023 beach read.

This book is a nostalgic look back at young love. Samantha and Wyatt spent summers on the beach in Long Island growing up, but then things happened that drastically altered their plans. 14 years later they meet at the beach again and have some hard decisions to make.

This is 100% the beach read of 2023. I know it.

I got wrapped up in this character’s life and the pages of this book. I loved watching the entire story unfold and Sam get back to who she was as a person.

While Wyatt was infuriating at times, he was also super endearing and I found myself liking him anyways. I liked watching his growth from young boy to teenager to full grown adult.

This is definitely a story of second chance romances, lifelong friendship, and staying true to your colors through all seasons of life.

Such a great summer read!

Love spanning a lifetime mixed with all the carefree summer feels made a perfect summer beach read!

Sam is set to marry her perfect Dr fiancé, has a seemingly perfect job, and is about to go back to her family summer vacation home to tour a wedding venue… what more could she ask for?? But then she hears the strums of a guitar floating across the breeze from the treehouse, and her “perfect” life is about to veer off course when she runs into her first love, Wyatt.

I loved the nostalgia, the emotions it evoked, and Monaghan set the beach scene so beautifully that I could picture myself there. The only thing I didn’t like about this book was that it was over! Absolutely devoured every page!

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for my ARC in exchange for my honest feedback!

Really cute read but the first 50% really drug me along. I enjoyed a few flashbacks but found myself way more invested with the present-day. We didn't see as much of their current relationship as I would have liked. Overall, solid read and I love this trope!

Thank you to Penguin and NetGalley for the e-arc of this book.

This is all the feels. A perfect summer beach read. I was able to feel the ocean without being there. I loved the characters and was rooting for Sam and Wyatt. I love the second chance romance trope, so it was a definite win for me. I enjoyed the alternating chapters, to hear about their past. I did not want to put this one down. I will be sure to check out this author. 5 stars

This is a quintessential summer read in that it perfectly evokes the feeling of summer. Those lazy days spent in the sun with no obligations and a wondrous mid-afternoon nap before dinner outside chatting long into the night with people you love. Side note: can you tell I’m desperately craving a vacation?? Well, until I can schedule can, this book perfectly scratches the itch.

There is also a lovely second chance romance between Sam and Wyatt, teenage sweethearts who are pulled apart by circumstances (minor enough to still root for them to work it out) and brought back together when Sam is back in their summer enclave to plan her wedding. It’s very by-the-numbers and predictable as far as these stories go, but that only lends to the easy, breezy vibe. When you’re on vacation you don’t want to think too hard. So, just let this book wash over you. I promise it will be revitalizing!

I loved this authors first novel so couldn’t wait to read her second. It did not disappoint! I love a good “across the lifespan” novel and this one follows Sam and Wyatt’s love story through the years. I found it to be beautifully written and an absolute delight to fall in love with these characters.

The ending of this book truly sparkled, and I finally felt connected with the main characters by the end. But it was slow plot-wise, and the dual/alternating timelines didn't really work for me. I think it would have read better if it had been chronological. For most of the book, I didn't really feel invested or connected with the characters.

This was missing some of the magic from Nora Goes Off Script.

Thank you to Penguin Books, NetGalley, and Annabel Monaghan for the e-arc of Same Time Next Summer!
I read Nora Goes Off Script before I read this book so I could get a sense of the author’s writing style. I really enjoyed Nora Goes Off Script, but I LOVED Same Time Next Summer (it must be because I’m a sucker for small beach town romances).
This was such a perfect read: summer in a small beach town, a little bit of family drama, and reconciliation between two people who went from best friends to lovers in their childhood.
This book had me reminiscing of my own childhood/teenage years growing up on Lake Michigan. Wyatt and Sam were great MCs, and their connection and chemistry felt real the entire time I was reading the book. The conflict was realistic, their love palpable, and their own personal growth measurable.
Anyone who needs the perfect beach read this summer, look no further

I finished this one in a few hours on my trip back to Michigan from Florida and was ABSOLUTELY obsessed with this summery second chance romance. Told in alternating present and flashback chapters, we follow Sam make her way back to her family's beach house with her fiance as they make wedding plans for later that year. It's apparent there is a reason why Sam has avoided the house, and the beach, but you don't immediately find out the why of it. And then....and then. Wyatt makes his way back into the picture and I was gone. Sometimes in these situations, I still end up feeling back for the current partner who is clearly going to wind up getting left in the dust but Sam's relationship with Jack didn't hold a freaking CANDLE to what she had had with Wyatt. I really enjoyed the flashbacks and seeing their romance unfold and seeing just how much the two loved each other.

I swear to God my entire body was pulsing and aching with all of the UST and my need for Sam and Wyatt to get back together. DEF RECOMMEND for this summer.

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Putnam for allowing me to read this eARC and exchange for my honest review!

This was another contemporary romance that I have mixed feelings about—giving it 3.5 stars, rounded to 4.

Summary: Sam’s life appears perfect from the outside, with her doctor fiancé and a great job in HR. But, when she visits her family’s beach house on Long Island to check out a potential wedding venue, her teenage love Wyatt is there. And even though Wyatt broke her heart badly, Sam’s life doesn’t feel so perfect when she starts to remember who she used to be when they were together all those years ago.

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed the story for the most part, but had a hard time with the pacing the entire way through, and I never felt anxious to get back to it in between reading.

Part of that is because the second chance romance trope isn’t my favorite, and this book further complicates that with a fiancé in the mix who isn’t a bad person, but is written to be so obviously wrong for Sam.

I did truly enjoy the relationship between Sam and Wyatt, though, and liked the overall theme of finding yourself and deciding what you want in life (and not just settling for what you think pleases others or that you’re supposed to want).

Overall, I really did want Sam and Wyatt to have a happy ending, and was rooting for it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an e-ARC. This is my honest review.

3.5 rounded up!

I at least liked this one a lot more than her first book, so that’s a huge win. But this story is pretty forgettable. A second chance romance like this never makes sense to me and I hate any kind of emotional cheating, which this definitely has.

It was super bingeable (on audio for sure) but there was a lot of fluff in the middle I didn’t totally care about. Overall good not great!

first, i would like to express my deepest appreciation and thanks to netgalley, penguin group putnam, and g.p. putnam's sons, for the advanced reader copy! i want to emphasize that my opinions from the review are completely my own. ⋆˚🐚🫧𖦹⋆🥥

i rated this book around the range of 2.5 to 3.0 ⭐ (but will round it up). it pains me that i have to rate this book very low because i heard great things about "nora goes off script." "same time, next summer" reminded me very much of "the summer i turned pretty" series but the adult version. particularly, i think it reminded me of tsitp due to how the main character goes back to the beach house every summer. i thought the whole storyline was very cute, almost too cute to where i was cringing at some parts. i do love a good hallmark christmas movie though, which can be the equivalent of a hallmark summer movie. however this was just meh due to how i consider romance to be my number 1 genre (to read!), and i found the characters not to be so memorable. the dialogue was so cheesy that i forgot that the main character is 30 years old because she spoke like a high schooler. like i understand the dialogue from when the book talks about the "then" portions since they are teenagers, but the dialogue when it reaches the "now" just felt like a really cheesy summer movie. there was a point where sam realizes she was acting like a teenager in love and i was like, "good thing she is self-aware." 🥥🌴🌺🍍🌸

to talk about the characters...sam, i had a love-hate relationship with her. her whole personality was basically how she loves the beach and how the long island beach town knows her as the girl who dated wyatt. all she literally talked about which i guess is the premise of the book. she was just boring, but i like how she has a coming to a realization in the end. jack...her fiance was so boring and insufferable. i think the only pro of him is that he likes playing and watching tennis (i am a tennis girlie). i know that there are couples that are opposite from one another that work but not them! he had the traits of being grumpy, someone who whines a lot, and someone who was controlling. i mean that was how i saw jack since that was how sam viewed him (no jack's pov). wyatt, i mean should i say more? i felt like we didn't get to really know him since most of the chapters were in sam's pov. we did get chapters from wyatt's pov but from the past and one chapter from the present, but all i got from it is that he likes to play music and surf. personally, to me, i thought there was emotional cheating in the book between sam and wyatt (when she was still with jack). i did not like nor appreciate that part at all as even sam's family and wyatt were calling her out for it. the "then" chapters were in the third person, and the "now" chapters were in the first person which i was confused the first time i read it. i don't prefer third person but i wished it was consistent throughout the book. and the ending was rushed like what many others said. i felt like monaghan could have dived deep into wyatt and sam's relationship and constructed their love story to be bittersweet when they first broke up. i think to tie it all up, the book was just very rushed in my opinion. ☀️🌊🍉🌴⛱️🍦

of course, people have different opinions about the book! please do not let this review steer away from monaghan's books! i think her books are a great pick-me-up read, as her chapters are very short! i just think this book was very unmemorable, but i did enjoy the summer aspect of the book! thank you annabel monaghan for writing the book. and once again, thank you netgalley, penguin group putnam, and g.p. putnam's sons, for the advanced reader copy! 🐚🪩🌊⚓🫧

book releases on june 6th, 2023! 🍉🦩🌴🐚🍍