What a beautiful book! Beautiful characters, beautiful prose, beautiful story. It stuck with me long after I finished the last page.

One of my favorite romance novels of the year!

Annabel Monaghan is quickly becoming one of my favorite contemporary romance writers. I haven’t always been a huge fan of the genre, but authors like Monaghan, Emily Henry, Elissa Sussman, Julia Whelan, and Mhairi McFarlane have made me rethink my earlier assessment. I loved Nora Goes Off Script, Monaghan’s debut novel for adults (she’s written several YA books), and I was thrilled to get a chance to read an early copy of Same Time Next Summer, which I tore through in less than 24 hours.

Sam and Wyatt have known each other since they were children, living next door to each other at the beach each summer. They become friends and then they become so much more. First love shines brightly until something shocking happens that shuts the whole thing down. Now its 14 years later, and Sam is back at the beach with her (new) fiancée. She’s done so much work on herself to get over Wyatt and built a safe life to shield herself from ever experiencing that kind of pain again. But Wyatt shows up next door, and the memories of who she used to be, and what the two of them had together, is seriously messing with her head. Her fiancée is stable, buttoned-up, serious. Safe. But Wyatt is…Wyatt, just as impossible to resist as he was when they were kids.

This second chance romance toggles back and forth between then and now filling in the story of how it all went wrong and maybe, just maybe, whether there’s a chance to get it right the second time around.

You’re bound to see this book all over the place this summer, so you might as well go ahead and preorder your copy now. It’s the perfect companion for a day at the beach, some time by the pool, or a quiet afternoon on your couch. I recommend this book to everyone who remembers the all-consuming power of first love.

Thank you to @penguinrandomhouse @NetGalley and @annabelmonaghan for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a fun summer read! I devoured it by the pool in one sitting. Perfect for anyone looking for a pool or beach read.

This was so fun! I really enjoyed this romcom. I found myself laughing and smiling about her family and enjoying the romance. A fun, summer read.

Annabel Monaghan is going to be a must read author for me. I adored Nora Goes Off Script and I jumped at the chance to read Same Time Next Summer. This is a perfect beach read. And second chance romance between teenage lovers Sam and Wyatt. The story is told in dual time lines, present day as Samantha is about to marry her fiance Jack and summers growing up with the boy next door, Wyatt. Wyatt is the one who got away and the author does a great job retelling their love story and the all consuming ache of first love.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy.

5 ENTHUSIASTIC STARS! I loooooved "Same Time Next Summer" by Annabel Monaghan! It's going to be the book of the summer, mark my words!

Every single word Annabel Monaghan puts on the page I can feel in my bones. I can smell the salt in the seaside air. I can feel the sand between my toes, touch my sun-warmed skin, feel the waves crashing all around me, hear the noises of her this quaint town she has written. Her descriptions!!! Her love story!!! Her music!!! Her settings!!! Everything is palpable and real and authentic!!! I genuinely loved everything about this book. I have no notes. It is perfection. I love the way she tells the story of Sam and Wyatt in flashbacks and in the present. I love their connection. I love Sam's connection with her parents and her younger sister. I love the way Wyatt follows his dreams despite his bad life circumstances. I love the push and pull of these characters, their growth, their happy and sad moments, the pining, the longing! This book is effortlessly funny and coolly devastating. I cried! I laughed! I yearned! This is such a tender book that has obviously been written with so much care. Can you tell I loved it?!?

I am such an absolute sucker for a story like "Same Time Next Summer." I cannot wait to own this book and will undoubtedly recommend it to everyone I know. I could not put it down and did not want it to end!

Thank you to NetGalley, Annabel Monaghan, PENGUIN GROUP Putnam, and G.P. Putnam's Sons for providing me with an ARC copy of this book! All opinions are my own, and I was not compensated for my review.

A very nostalgic, summery beach read. I struggled a bit with weak characterisation, and at times the jumping back and forth between character viewpoints and different timelines was challenging, but in the end it's a sweet, joyful second chance romance with enough character growth by the end to be satisfying.

I was excited for this novel because I absolutely loved her last one, Nore Goes Off Script.
The story is told in present time and flashbacks about the teenage rship of Sam and Wyatt when their families came together each summer at neighboring beach houses on Long Island. At the end of one summer, a chance experience changes everything and causes Wyatt to shut Sam out of his life. With difficulty, she moves on and orchestrates the "perfect" life. She's happy, until encountering Wyatt again makes Sam question everything.
I liked the characters and their realistic flaws. While the ending was pretty predictable, I enjoyed how they got there.

This was like a less emotionally traumatizing version of Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren and I can't tell if I enjoyed it more or less for that.

On one hand, this is the perfect beach read. There's just enough angst and drama to keep you riveted, but not so much so that you're sobbing in public, half-naked and probably sunburned because you've been unable to put the book down long enough to reapply the SPF. I read this in one day and it was a fun time.

On the other hand, Sam and Wyatt's romance in the current timeline fell a bit flat for me. I related to Sam's mortification of running into an ex unexpectedly, but I never felt that magnetic pull between her and Wyatt. Second chance romances like this should be HEAPING with tension and longing. I want to feel the tragedy of the time lost between them pull at my heartstrings! Unfortunately, while I enjoyed reading about their journey, by the end I was just left feeling sort of fine about the whole thing.

Something about the shift in perspectives also felt a bit sloppy to me. I don't tend to mind a shift in POVs, or even in third and first person perspectives, but the ping-ponging between Sam and Wyatt almost felt unnecessary. There's one single chapter in the current day timeline in Wyatt's point of view that broke the format and added pretty much nothing for it. This can be done effectively, but it made my brain stutter in an unpleasant way for some reason in this book.

I think of the two Annabel Monaghan books I've read, I prefer Nora Goes off Script, but this was a fun and fast read overall and I would recommend it.

Thank you to G.P. Putnam's Sons and NetGalley for access to this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan is a thoughtful beach read. Samantha has a predictable life in NYC, and he is engaged to a very predictable man. Her parents want her to come visit their summer home on Long Island, the one she visited every summer growing up with memories of her next door neighbor Wyatt all around her.

“There's something about the beach that changes the chemical component of everything around it.“

This second chance, summer, beach romance book was just the thing for me. The story moves between the present and past seamlessly. Samantha is the kind of character that you see a little of yourself in. She is desperately trying to keep all her plates spinning and wondering where the person she used to be has gone. I loved walking with her as she discovered who she was, and made peace with her past.

“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. Turn carefree into careful; bandage up your heart and double-check the adhesive. Bit by bit, I have left my childhood behind, replacing my impulsiveness with deliberate decisions and plans “

I loved the thoughtfulness of this story. The themes of second chances, family and becoming who you were meant to resonated with me. The story had some surprises and delivered a great ending. I am moving author Annabel Monaghan to auto buy as I also loved Nora Goes Off Script. I highly recommend it.

I was given a copy by the publisher and not required to write a positive review.

I loved Nora Goes Off Script and was super excited to get another book from Monaghan. I was prepared to have some fun, to be emotionally invested and feel super happy at the end. I got all three, but it started off a little slower and a little bit more disjointed than I expected. It could be that I have read so many books this spring with the now/then timeline structure. It could be that I wanted to know what happened quicker than she knew I needed to know. But if it hadn't been for the support of friends, i might have given up too soon and missed all of the goodness that was just past the 35% mark.

Wyatt and Sam have summered together their whole lives. They are neighbors at the beach and when they fall in love and break up as teens, it affects their whole adult lives. They happen to come across each other when she is back at her family's beach house to work on planning her wedding....and then everything happens.

Monaghan's books are quick and emotional and this one just feels like summer. It's going to be a book that you want to read in the sunshine by the pool or at the actual beach. It's filled with family and twists and turns and I am so glad that I read it.

I have to say I wanted to love this one more than I did. With that said, I did enjoy it. It just wasn’t what I was expecting, I think.

I did really love the characters and felt invested in them. I also felt good about the ending. Overall, a fun choice for a summer read.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I adored Nora Goes Off Script last year, so I jumped at the chance to read this one!

This was such a fun mix of beachy, coming of age, friends to lovers, second chance…

I loved the way the story moved in time from childhood to now. I loved all the family relationships and dynamics.

There were a couple little things I struggled with in terms of pacing/ how things played out, which kept this from being a 5 star… but I couldn’t put the book down and adored the resolution and lovely lovely ending.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for the chance to review an advance copy.

Loved Nora Goes Off Script and was looking forward to this one. Was ok for me. Ended up skipping the flashbacks and only reading the Now sections. Was predictable and didn't really like the main woman(finished yesterday and literally can't remember her name) or her fiance. Woild have probably enjoyed the book more I'd they were likable characters. But finished it in a few days and loved Nora so much I will def read more by this author.

I loved Monaghan’s last novel, Nora Goes Off Script, so I was so excited to see she had a new book out. And she’s done it again!

Same Time Next Summer is the perfect summer read. Between the beach setting, characters that are easy to love, and the nostalgia-laced memories of what summer should feel like, this story is a satisfying, succulent read. Perfect for fans of Carly Fortune’s Every Summer After.

Special thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

Rating: 4

I’m such a sucker for these summer time, first love, second chance romance books. I just love them and this one did not disappoint! I loved the friendship between Wyatt and Sam, and their connection was really heartwarming. I felt for them and just really rooted for them. I think there were elements to this story that felt really real, and raw. Like after a loss, Sam building a world where she felt safe makes sense. I liked that.

This part really stood out to me:

“He thought about being happy before, but it was usually in retrospect. This state of being happy and knowing it right in the moment was fascinating to him.”

I think (or at least) we’ve all felt this at one point in life when it all of a sudden hits you that you’re really happy. I just love it.

If you loved Every Summer After or The Summer I Turned Pretty, I think you’ll love this one.

Same Time Next Summer comes out on June 6th - it’ll be the perfect beach read. Thank you Putnam for the e-arc! You’re the best.

This was such a good *almost* summer read. I loved it. I loved the other book by Annabel Monaghan. This is a perfect beach read.

Sweet, nostalgic, hopeful, angsty, romantic... In many ways this novel has some of the same feels as last summer's Nora Goes Off Script, but presented in a fresh light with huge summer vibes (as is clear from the title).

I really enjoyed Same Time Next Summer, and gave it 4.5 stars. The half star off was for the plethora of YA-life flashback scenes that seemed over the top, and just more than necessary. The current timeline plot was great however, especially in the second half of the story. This novel just screams SUMMER and I loved that I was able to read most of it by the beach.

Highly recommend!

I was so pleased to get to read the new book by one of my favorite new to me authors! Same Time Next Summer is a great second time romance story about Sam and Wyatt. I did enjoy the way the story developed and loved how Sam realized who she really and finally allowed herself to be true to herself. I did think there are some holes in the story and that it was not quite all I was expecting. However, a very solid summer read and well worth the time! Excited to see what Annabel Monaghan writes next! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC for this review.

This book was just as addicting to read as Nora Goes off Script! @annabelmonaghan has a way of captivating her readers and making them fall in love with the characters every time.

Main character, Sam grew up spending each summer at Long Island with her family until she was 17. Now 14 years later, and a fiancé in the mix, Sam returned to Long Island for wedding prep only to find her first love, Wyatt perched up in his treehouse where they spent so much time together 14 years ago.

Wyatt was Sam’s first true love and when he broke things off 14 years ago to go to LA and become a musician, Sam was crushed. She spent a lot of time in therapy to get over him but nothing worked.

Fast forward to the now and you could still see the little sparks between Sam and Wyatt. Sam was outgoing, fun and creative while her fiancé, Jack, was boring, predictable and a total fun-sponge. Wyatt took her surfing, spent time with her family, and even went to the cake tasting with Sam so she wouldn’t be alone (because, you guessed it, Jack couldn’t go). Wyatt couldn’t understand why Sam was letting Jack dictate her life or her wedding.

With the wedding quickly approaching, Sam and Wyatt spent a lot more time together as friends again in Long Island while accepting the idea that Sam was marrying Jack. Wyatt was everything you could want in a relationship and Jack was the opposite. Jack thought Sam’s goals were silly and that her family was immature, and didn’t agree on anything Sam wanted for the wedding. Total red flags. Sam had a huge choice to make and let me just say, the ending was amazing and definitely HEA worthy.

Be sure to pick this addicting beach read up on release day June 6! Thank you @netgalley and @putnambooks for the opportunity to read this! 💕