The Summer I Saved You

It's a hard nah for me folks.

I love Elizabeth O'Roark's writing! Waking Olivia is an all time favorite for me, and I absolutely adored the Devil series! Her writing here was still impeccable, compelling, and tear inducing (especially Lucie's pov) but the characters were just...not it at all.

Ok I LOVED Lucie. I'm a sucker for a FMC who has had so much shit thrown at her but continues to be kind, compassionate, and face challenges head on, one step at a time. Also my heart genuinely aches for my low self esteem fictional babes. (Also Sophie, Henry, and Molly were just the freaking best.)

But man Caleb sucked, The law of romance plot physics was broken. For every shitty thoughtless thing he did, there was not an equal and opposite wonderful moment. Like the circumstances around why he was the way he was, and how Lucie's unrequited love went on for so long made logical sense, but I didn't feel like she got a quarter of what she put into the relationship back out of it.

Also, I am just SO NOT INTERESTED in Kate and Beck's story. Like I honestly couldn't care less about what happens to these two (especially after reading the teaser). It seems to me like whole series is about morally gray main characters and while I'm here for the concept in theory, I'm so far really not feeling it.

I really enjoy Elizabeth's writing and how she does contemporary romance.

I wish more had been done about Lucie's ex and the way he spoke to her????

And Lucie having a crush/being in love with Caleb since she was 6, but we just barely got a glance at that.

Caleb redeemed himself when it came time, and the twins were cute as hell.