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BUDDY READ: Contemporary/Romance > Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan -- Staring August 21st 2025

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Jenn (tellingmelies) | 9730 comments Mod
Beach Rules:
Do take long walks on the sand.
Do put an umbrella in every cocktail.
Do NOT run into your first love.

Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?

Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.



Lara Knight | 1055 comments Annabel Monaghan's book's have been hit or miss for me, but I LOVED Summer Romance - so here's to chasing that feeling!

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message 4: by Lara (last edited Aug 22, 2025 12:15AM) (new) - rated it 2 stars

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Gohnar23 | 1501 comments AHHHHHHHH STARTING NWOWWWWW 😭😭😭😭😭


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message 9: by Gohnar23 (last edited Aug 23, 2025 05:11AM) (new) - rated it 2 stars

Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Lara wrote: "Annabel Monaghan's book's have been hit or miss for me, but I LOVED Summer Romance - so here's to chasing that feeling!

Chapter 10: Oh no I have been such a hater recently, and I can feel it comin..."


Oh no worries! 😁😁, i love it when people get honest about the books that they read, i also noticed that on the other buddy reads that we did. But honestly hating books is kind of fun. More of a "this is so bad it's funny and i'm going to laugh at it because of how bad it is" rather than a "this is so bad i'm mad and irritated", that's how i am most of the time because of the sheer amounts of books that i read, my standards are now fixed and cemented, most books probably fall under three stars and i will forget all about that book later on which just makes all the ACTUAL GOOD BOOKS have their time to shine and for me to appreciate it. But even then, reading bad books is still fun, the act of reading is what gets me going, not the quality of the book of how good or bad it is, it only amplifies it.

And i also do agree, the "now" is more uninteresting than the "then"


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Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Lara wrote: "Chapter 54: Okay what the heck Wyatt, why wait until she's about to get married to have this conversation?! But also he definitely does have a point - how has nobody say anything about her being a ..."

Yeaaa, it feels like everything is so rushedddd 😭😭


Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Lara wrote: "Final thoughts: [spoilers removed]"

Okay so i haven't watched Summer I Turned Pretty, so i definitely haven't seen season 3 but isn't that based on a book series? I think ill read those next


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Lara Knight | 1055 comments Gohnar23 wrote: "19%

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Absolutely LOVE this comment, so real!! Am very glad you did get around to this BR hehe

But yeah overall I didn't think this was terrible but was a bit boring!


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Lara Knight | 1055 comments Gohnar23 wrote: "Lara wrote: "Final thoughts: [spoilers removed]"

Okay so i haven't watched Summer I Turned Pretty, so i definitely haven't seen season 3 but isn't that based on a book series? I think ill read tho..."


Haha yessss it's a YA book series by Jenny Han! I read the first one wayyyy back in like 2016 but I don't think I ever finished the series lol!

But then my friends were all watching the show so I joined in halfway through season 3 without watching the earlier seasons hahah!


Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Starting now! Although I'm ten years too late 😂


message 20: by Masoodah (last edited Aug 26, 2025 04:44AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Chapter 12

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Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Masoodah wrote: "Chapter 12

Ok so I'm not too sure about the chemistry in this book. It's just not sitting right with me.. I'll continue, hoping it picks up

Feel like the author is more prone to describing situ..."


Aaaaaaaed that's what kind of make this a bit better,,, more unique right? At least it's not directly just dialogue after dialogue after dialogue, it's really reminding me of classic literature.., but still 2★ this is extremely bad haha


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Lara Knight | 1055 comments Masoodah wrote: "Chapter 12 [spoilers removed]"

Don't even worry about the late join haha, glad you made it!

YES I completely agree with you though! I couldn't quite put a finger on all the reasons why I didn't like this that much but you're so right, you can feel it even from the start!


Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Chapter 37

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Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Lara wrote: "Chapter 36: (view spoiler)


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Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Chapter 44

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Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Masoodah wrote: "Chapter 44

He's still in love her and she's still in love with him. Eventhough they may not both know this about each other 😥😥😥

The dad being in the car when they are having the conversation abo..."


ackwardddddddddd, especially when we already know that theyre kinda not for each other anymore.......i do wish that they said this to each other sooner so it wont hurt that much when they eventually say itttt


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Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Chapter 54

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Gohnar23 | 1501 comments Yesssss, she should be independent 😅😅😅😅😅


Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Finished
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Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Gohnar23 wrote: "Lara wrote: "Annabel Monaghan's book's have been hit or miss for me, but I LOVED Summer Romance - so here's to chasing that feeling!

Chapter 10: Oh no I have been such a hater recently, and I can ..."


Love this about you! I tend to be that reader who rates everything 5 stars even if it isnt. But I'm starting to draw a back and be bluntly honest x


Gohnar23 | 1501 comments its mid ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨, i feel like i've already read the exact same book before too! especially that overly cliche ending 🥰🥰🥰🥰


Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Exactly! Feel like a lot of contemporary romances I read have similar vibes. 😫


message 34: by Lara (new) - rated it 2 stars

Lara Knight | 1055 comments I feel like mid is generous - for me at least the characters were so underwhelming and I can't think of anything this book really did well :(


Gohnar23 | 1501 comments i mean i WILL rate it one star...........but like 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 mid is....kinda appropriate


message 36: by Lara (new) - rated it 2 stars

Lara Knight | 1055 comments HAHAHA I respect that vibe!


Masoodah Akooji (masoodahakooji) | 244 comments Gohnar23 wrote: "i mean i WILL rate it one star...........but like 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 mid is....kinda appropriate"

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