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Barry's Bay
every summer after and one golden summer by carley fortune
every summer after and one golden summer by carley fortune

Barry's Bay

Barry's Bay
Barry's Bay
By:
Carley Fortune
  • Spice Scale
  • Number of books

    2 Published

  • KU

    ❌

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Complete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW THE PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES EVERY YEAR AFTER

"A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

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Jamie’s review

EVERY SUMMER AFTER

Consider me a Carley Fortune fan now because that was perfection. Wowzer. I loved it!

Percy's family buys a lakeside cottage when she's 13 and she starts spending summers next door to Sam Florek. It's a classic friends to lovers (my favorite) and second chance romance story. GAH! It's so well done! Reminded me a little of Rewind It Back in the Windy City series, if you loved that, you will love this.

You know there's a terrible reason why Percy and Sam didn't speak for 12 years and you're dreading learning what it is but you also HAVE to know what it is and then once you know what it is… 😭😭🤬🤬

I can't wait to read One Golden Summer now which follows Sam's brother Charlie. But so far, Sam and Percy are everythinggggg. 5/5


ONE GOLDEN SUMMER

Sweet story, a little slow, which is supposed to be lake life I guess. I liked Every Summer After a ton and I was excited to read about these characters again. BUT, I was still a little mad at Charlie. 😡 IYKYK. 

He gets his redemption arc and I did really like him and Alice’s story. But it just didn’t have the yearrrrning that Sam and Percy had. 

Super fast and enjoyable read and I’m glad Charlie got his happy ever after. Just not quite as memorable as ESA. I do want to visit Barry’s Bay now. Sounds so dreamy!

EVERY SUMMER AFTER

Consider me a Carley Fortune fan now because that was perfection. Wowzer. I loved it!

Percy's family buys a lakeside cottage when she's 13 and she starts spending summers next door to Sam Florek. It's a classic friends to lovers (my favorite) and second chance romance story. GAH! It's so well done! Reminded me a little of Rewind It Back in the Windy City series, if you loved that, you will love this.

You know there's a terrible reason why Percy and Sam didn't speak for 12 years and you're dreading learning what it is but you also HAVE to know what it is and then once you know what it is… 😭😭🤬🤬

I can't wait to read One Golden Summer now which follows Sam's brother Charlie. But so far, Sam and Percy are everythinggggg. 5/5


ONE GOLDEN SUMMER

Sweet story, a little slow, which is supposed to be lake life I guess. I liked Every Summer After a ton and I was excited to read about these characters again. BUT, I was still a little mad at Charlie. 😡 IYKYK. 

He gets his redemption arc and I did really like him and Alice’s story. But it just didn’t have the yearrrrning that Sam and Percy had. 

Super fast and enjoyable read and I’m glad Charlie got his happy ever after. Just not quite as memorable as ESA. I do want to visit Barry’s Bay now. Sounds so dreamy!

Erica’s review

Erica hasn’t read this yet, it’s on her never ending TBR

Books in this series

  • Book 1

    of

    2

    Every Summer After
    Every Summer After

  • Book 2

    of

    2

    One Golden Summer
    One Golden Summer

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