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This was a very sweet debut novel of a second chance romance. I loved the storyline and I loved the characters! The felt like one big family. The friendship between Jack and Autmn was cute! It was a slowburn but a good one😍 I will read books from these authirs again! Thank you to netgalley for providing me with this ARC❤️

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I want to go to adult summer camp now!!!
This was a really fun read. James is a lawyer who works hard but doesn’t play hard. His best friend convinces him to go to Camp Starlight where he finds his high school girlfriend Autumn is a camp councillor

This is cheesy and corny and fluffy in the best way ever. It is the perfect summer read and will fill you with memories of camp and first love.

Can’t wait to continue this series

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Camp Love was the perfect summer read, and as someone who worked at a summer camp, it has made me want to go to an adult summer camp even more now and just let loose and have fun! Jamie and Autumn were easy to relate it, funny, entertaining and just overall, a great combo to read about. It's such an easy read but with a good plot and just can switch off from the world from. You'll be able to read this in one sitting as you won't want to put the book down!

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This book theoretically was going to be right up my alley. The setting of an adult camp just sounded amazing and of course Second Chance romance is always great. However, I expected a lot more humor from this book. A lot of the jokes just didn’t hit for me and it seemed more like a fluffy romance, which if you’re into that thing is amazing and I’m sure you would love this book however I’m more into the romantic comedy.
The book was very well written, and I look forward to seeing what those author has of the future .

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This was a perfect summer romance. I loved the idea of a summer camp for adults, and how it was a place for them to let loose and be carefree kids again.

This book is set over a week. I would have liked a divider between the chapters marking the start of the different days, as it got a bit confusing how many days in they were.

Some of the scenes felt a bit jumpy. Unnecessary. A lot of it could have been cut.

The conflict between the FMC and her parents was solved way to quickly and I feel like I’m missing something. It wasn’t really believable.

The book heavily suggests that the MMC was a self centred prick during college years, not caring about things which don’t directly affect him, like his girlfriend’s friends. But, the reason why he broke up with her was because he was thinking about her and her future? I didn’t like that reasoning. If felt out of character. It would have been more believable if say, the FMC’s parents pressured him into breaking up with her.

And can people change so much over a decade? The MMC went from being an extroverted, self-centred guy who loved to party and was, I want to say, captain of a sports team? To an introvert, obsessed with his job? His family dynamics felt believable, but his character not so much. But that being said, I haven’t met someone a decade later so maybe people do change the much.

Overall, I had fun. I liked the camp dynamics though there were too many characters popping up it was hard to keep track of them all. I will definitely continue with the series. I’m hoping there’s going to be a book about Jack.

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This book was a lot of fun to read! Jamie gets conned into taking some time off from work and joining his best friend at a summer camp for adults. When he gets there, he's shocked to realize that his ex girlfriend Autumn helps run the camp.

Like I said before, this book was just fun. It had good banter, entertaining characters and a well written story. I'm a 40 year old mom of three and it made me want to drop my kids with grandma and go find a summer camp for adults! There was definite heat between Autumn and Jamie and it only intensified as their relationship progressed. I'd like to see a follow up story focusing on Jack next...I enjoyed his character a lot!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

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I really liked the setting of this. The idea of a summer camp for adults sounds fun. But I didn't really feel the romance. For some reason I couldn't seem to get a handle on who the characters really were - either back in high school or now. They filled their role in the story, but I didn't feel much personality from them beyond that. And their entire romance was based on how extremely in love they were in high school, but we never got to actually see them back then. A few flashbacks could've helped solidify their history, but instead we mainly got them ruminating on the fact that they never got over each other without any details of their past relationship fleshing out what it was that they never got over exactly. (Also, the reason for their breakup as teenagers is one of my least favorite tropes.) And in the present day, it's mainly about still being very attracted to each other on a sexual level. Also, yes, the whole idea of this summer camp for adults is about decompressing and rediscovering your inner child and the joy in simple things, but all of the characters acted much younger than they were. They seemed more like teenagers than like thirty-year-olds. So yeah, it was fine, but not very memorable and not as much character depth or relationship development as I wanted.

Thank you to Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op and to the authors for providing a review copy via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

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This was a really fun premise and the romance was really well done. I enjoyed our main characters Jamie and Autumn, renavigating an old relationship and themselves.

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I liked the premis of Camp Love, an adult summer camp to get away from your day to day and relax. This is a second chance romance where the two main characters unexpectedly run into each other at Camp Starlight. Jamie, is a lawyer who never takes a break and his best friend drags him a long for a much needed getaway. Autumn helped build this camp and is an ax throwing camp counselor. They also happen to be exes that dated in high school.

I was hoping for a bit more from this. I think there were many parts that were supposed to be funny but just fell flat for me. Being from the PNW I did love all the PNW references and the idea of the camp was fun. The romance was ok, not bad but also not great. With the humor lacking this was just a fluffy romance and wasn’t for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Victory Editing for this E-ARC.

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Jamie es un abogado corporativo de Seattle que ha dedicado su vida al trabajo, sacrificando cualquier rastro de vida personal. Su mejor amigo y asistente, Ren, lo convence a tomar unas vacaciones en un retiro poco convencional: un campamento de verano para adultos. Allí, en medio de la naturaleza, Jamie se reencuentra con algo que había perdido: la alegría de vivir, nuevas amistades, y... a ella.

Autumn ha encontrado su propósito en Camp Starlight, un campamento exclusivo en las montañas de Oregón donde adultos se reconectan con ellos mismos lejos del estrés cotidiano. Es feliz entre fogatas, manualidades y bromas internas con el personal. Lo que no esperaba era que uno de los nuevos campistas fuera Jamie, su primer amor y la persona que partió su corazón años atrás.

Mientras ambos lidian con recuerdos, expectativas y una química imposible de ignorar, el campamento se convierte en el escenario perfecto para segundas oportunidades. Pero ¿puede un amor que no funcionó en el pasado sobrevivir en el presente?


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Me sorprendió que Jamie no le dijera a Jack lo que vio.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest

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Camp Love 🏕️ ❤️
RATING: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
SPICE: 3/5 🌶️
TROPES: Small town, open door romance, he falls first, second chance, found family
Expected Publishing Date- 8/5/25
WILL BE AVAILABLE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED!

If you are looking for a cute and cozy summer romance, this is the one for you! Autumn and Jamie make the cutest couple of the summer!

Meet the main female character, Autumn- camp counselor at Camp Starlight for 5 years, sweetheart, and a hard worker.
Meet the main male character, Jamie- workaholic, struggles when it comes to relationships, up-tight and desperately needs to take a vacation.

Jamie needs to relax and take a break from work. What better way to do that, then to take a short vacation to an adult summer camp?
He’s settling in nicely so far. That is, until, he meets the camp counselor. His ex-girlfriend, highschool sweetheart, and first love. He broke her heart.
He was supposed to spend the his vacation disconnecting. Instead, he spends his vacation reconnecting with his first love, Autumn.

Watching Autumn and Jamie fall in love- again, was so much fun! This book is filled with humor and tension. I was hesitant about the main male character, Jamie, at first but he is the perfect man for Autumn. He has a great sense of humor and he is such a goof! The spice in this book was just *chef’s kiss*!
After reading this book, I realized that I also desperately need a vacation to an adult summer camp! This book was cozy, sweet, fun and perfect.
I cannot wait to read more from Ellie Belmont and Lacey Cole!

HUGE thank you to Netgalley, Just a Spark Publishing and authors Ellie Belmont and Lacey Cole for this amazing eARC!

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I really enjoyed Camp Love. It was the perfect book to read over the summertime season. It was about slowing down, taking time to rediscover yourself, and rekindling live that was lost. It had all the elements of a great book and I flew through it in just a few short days. Highly recommend

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