5 Smooches!
Synopsis
Twenty-four-year-old Summer Johnson knows two things. The first is that due to a quickly worsening medical condition, she faces a risky surgery in three months’ time that may or may not end in her death. The second is that she would like to fall in love before then.
As spring sinks into her namesake season on the Florida coastline, Summer plays the odds and downloads a new dating app – and after one intriguing message from a beautiful surfer named Cooper Nichols, it becomes clear that the story of what may be her last few months under the sun is about to be completely revised. All she has to do now is write something worth reading.
Tender, honest, devastating and triumphant, The Summer Remains explores a very human battle being waged in a very digital age: the search for a love that will outlast this temporary borrowing of bones. In an era when many feel compelled to share and re-share anything about everything, prepare to feel a love so special, you will want to hug it close and make it yours forever.
Review
Oh My God! The feels this book gave me. Just so many damn feels. I have been reading Seth’s work since he insulated himself in the romance genre months ago and I have always enjoyed his writing. It’s usually good and sexy, but this book took a whole leap forward in his writing for me. The words were so heart felt and moving. The story is inspiring and emotional. I pretty much read this book in one sitting. I couldn’t stop. I had to know what happened. I think I knew what was going to happen the whole time and I really just wanted the journey; the highs, the lows, the rawness that one feels when reading such a poignant novel.
Summer’s character is written so beautifully. God, I loved her. I felt for her. I wanted a better life for her and I wanted her to have everything that this life could give her, love included.
“Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone.”
But no book boyfriend has quite captured my heart recently like Cooper Nichols. He is quite and kind in the most gorgeous of ways and I loved him for Summer. He surged right into my heart and stole it with his stunning ability to make an insecure girl feel beautiful.
“I’m gonna make you glow.”
Summer and Cooper will take you on a heartbreaking journey. Get the tissues and wine ready because you are going to need it after this one. Seth King’s poetic writing managed to pull every emotion out of me. I laughed, I cried, I grieved. I felt completely wrecked, my emotions laid bare and raw; a true sign of an epically awesome ugly cry book.
~Amie
