Elizabeth O'Roark

The Summer We Fell

“Go fuck yourself,” I reply under my breath. 

His eyes lighten and his mouth twitches. “There she is,” he says, only for me to hear. “I knew she was in there somewhere.”

Ilham

Took me 1 month to finish this book 
This book is confusing, there was no connection between the mc 

Also there is cheating but I knew that and I still gave this book a chance but yeah I had high expectations for this and I’m a little disappointed

Jay Becerra

I don’t care what anyone says about this book. I LOVED IT.

The way the author describes the pain, the longing, the guilt. It sunk into me. I could feel it with the way they described it. It was sad, beautiful, tragic. (Yes, like the Taylor Swift song).

I’ve long accepted that not everyone will enjoy the things I do but if you love stories of pining, silent conversations, longing stares, a love that scares you because it’s wrong but yet right all at the same time, the angst, slow burn and yes, it’s not perfect and maybe sometimes problematic BUT the way it squeezed at my heart and broke it and healed it all at once. I don’t how to describe it.

I just… I loved it. And I know this book will stay with me for a long time.

Doris Ivandic 

Thank you so much to Valentine PR for the ARC of this book!

The Summer We Fell brings readers along the emotional journey of Juliet Cantrell and Luke Taylor. Juliet’s boyfriend, Danny, and his family choose to take her in after she has escaped from her heartbreaking home situation at fifteen, and she has lived with them ever since. Years later, Danny is in college and brings home his friend Luke for the summer. Luke and Juliet have a magnetic pull towards each other, their pasts are painful, and they seem to be the only ones that understand each other. There is an unbreakable tension between them but yet, they cannot act on it as they are both stuck to the Allen family. After almost a decade has passed since their summers at the Allen home, both Juliet and Luke return only to find out that they are still completely drawn to each other. Stuck in an impossible situation, what can they do? 

This was my first Elizabeth O'Roark book and I absolutely devoured it. I enjoyed flipping from the then and now chapters, slowly piecing together the entire story. I loved seeing Luke being the only person who truly understood Juliet from the second he stepped into Danny’s house. Both of them having to play their part without revealing their true selves and harboring so much pain made them such an interesting pair. Luke truly made something in her come alive and she didn’t have to pretend to be someone else when he’s around. In a sense, he could see right through her. This book made me feel so many emotions with the amount of push and pull between the characters. The tension made this book impossible to put down and I constantly wanted to know more. The author had a beautiful way of creating a bond between these characters that felt raw, tense, loving, and emotional. I was immensely invested in their story and did not want to put this book down. 

If you are a lover of second chance romance or in the need for an angsty summer read, read this immediately!

Shelby Caswell

I listened to this over audio book, and it was a fun read. it was also heart breaking. 

The past vs present flip of timeline is a favorite of mine because we know the end, but there’s still so much to figure out as you go. 

Do I believe Jules is a terrible person for what happened? I don’t. I believe she was young and immature on how to handle what she was being out through.

She tried her best to be what they all needed, even at the expense of her own happiness. 

This wasn’t a full of joy book, it was more full of summer sadness.

It made you really look at what you’re providing a relationship and what you’re getting. everything is give and take and you have to decide what’s a level that makes you truly happy.

Luke tho- whew. He was incredible throughout the entire book. He always knew exactly what Jules needed, even when she didn’t.


If we had heard Luke’s POV this might have been a 4⭐️ rating for me. Jules is just always so hard on herself and brings things to a close before they need to be.

Nouran Hazem

** spoiler alert **
           This book where do I start? I have to say this book was definitely so much more than a romance.. this felt like Juliet’s story and journey and so much of what happens pisses me off because I was always rooting for her even if those around her constantly tried to make her less.. this book embodies everything wrong about society’s feminine ideologies of the women having to do all the cooking and cleaning while the men just sit.. it genuinely pissed me off how realistic this was because I’ve seen this happen time and time again.. one more thing I hated to see was how when Juliet tells Danny that she was raped all he asked was how many times because of it happened multiple times it couldn’t have possibly been rape seeing as she should’ve avoided the guy?! And he was angry at her for not being a virgin anymore?! This describes her very thing that is wrong with society and how common victim blaming is, that girls are constantly scared of speaking up because we know the first question anybody asks is “what were you wearing? How were you acting? Maybe you flirted? Maybe you were asking for it?” 
Juliet was my girl.. I love her and I just want to protect her, she wasn’t a perfect person and was definitely flawed but I just loved how she learned from Luke to grow into herself and stand up for herself.. Luke was just perfect. I loved how protective he was of Jules and how they constantly defended and protected each other. They constantly fought for each other’s dreams and were just soulmates. Their love story was subtle, no grand gestures but it still felt real in a wholesome way.. I wish we had more of them happy and together 💞

Listening to labor and the archer while reading this was an experience that’s for sure..

Skye

“I’ll wait for you forever. But if you leave it up to other people, that’s exactly how long it will take.”

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I ached while reading this book. it’s a painful glimpse into the lasting effects trauma and guilt can have and the way they shape you—often holding you in place when all you want to do is be free. it’s melancholic and suspenseful, but underneath it all, The Summer We Fell is a hopeful love story. 
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read if you like:

♡ forbidden romance 
♡ secret relationships 
♡ second chances 
♡ surfing 
♡ self-discovery 
♡ love triangles 
♡ found family
♡ forced proximity 
♡ love at first sight
♡ traumatic pasts 
♡ small beach towns 
♡ singing/songwriting 
♡ flashbacks 

trigger warnings:
☞ domestic abuse
☞ church trauma 
☞ rape (mentioned, not on-page)
☞ child molestation (mentioned, not on-page)
☞ parental neglect 
☞ infidelity 
☞ death of a loved one
☞ murder 
☞ homophobia 

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thank you Valentine PR for providing me with an early copy!

Nouran

No soy muy fan de las historias donde muestran el pasado y el presente pero valió la pena 

The Summer We Fell

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