Summer Books To Add To Your TBR ☀️🍉

Here are some summer reads!⛱️👙

Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez

GR: 4.43 ⭐️

✨Synopsis:

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.

Tropes:

✨summer romance

✨online meet cute

✨found family

✨dual pov

✨mental health rep

Trigger Warnings:

✨Abandonment

✨PTSD

✨mental illness

✨incarceration

✨grief

✨child abuse

✨toxic parental relationship

✨vomiting

✨gaslighting

✨fire

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

GR: 3.76⭐️

✨Synopsis:

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

Tropes:

✨love triangles

✨miscommunication

Trigger Warnings:

✨ Cancer

✨Cheating

✨Homophobic slurs (challenged)

✨Sexual assault (nonconsensual kissing)

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Searle

GR: 3.59⭐️

✨Synopsis:

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.

But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother’s spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life.

And then Carol appears—in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how—all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.

Tropes:

✨ slow burn

✨enemies to lovers

✨love triangle

✨peasant becomes a ruler

✨morally gray characters

Trigger Warnings:

✨ grief

✨death of a parent

Beach Read by Emily Henry

GR: 4.1⭐️

✨Synopsis:

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

Tropes:

✨enemies to lover

✨small town romance

✨forced proximity

Trigger Warnings:

✨grief

✨divorce

✨infidelity

✨cancer

✨cults

Meet Me At The Lake by Carley Fortune

GR: 3.7⭐️

✨Synopsis:

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.

At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's Muskoka lakeside resort—something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin.

She needs a plan—a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is.

Tropes:

✨ contemporary romance (door ajar)

✨soulmate trope/instant love⁣

✨grief/loss subplot⁣

✨Dirty Dancing-style resort ⁣setting

✨redemption story⁣

Trigger Warnings:

✨ Death of a parent

✨Grief

✨Estranged parents

✨Anxiety

✨Insomnia

✨Postpartum depression

✨OCD

✨Fatal car accident

✨Nightmares

✨Emotional infidelity

Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

GR: 4.2⭐️

✨Synopsis:

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken.

There aren’t enough labeled glass containers to contain the mess that is Ali Morris’s life. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. She’s a professional organizer whose pantry is a disgrace.

No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. The last thing Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little Summer Romance. Is there?

Tropes:

✨ Second chance romance / right person

✨wrong time trope

✨It’s always been you trope

✨Best friend’s little brother trope

Trigger Warnings:

✨ death of a parent

✨grief

✨divorce

✨toxic relationship

Maybe one of these books will added to your TBR or maybe all of them!

Happy Reading Everyone ☀️🌻

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