summer book recommendations

If your plans for summer is reading a romance book while tanning or in the shade of your backyard but you don't know where to start, i got you.

I have listed few of my favourite summer reads that got me out of a reading slump and had me hooked the same time. Need something to not let you put the book down? In the mood for heat? Plot twists? Check.

1. Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren

An one single POV that you find yourself in the shoes of the fmc (Macy) to find out about that one night that made her run away from her long time friend and lover (Elliot). A timeline of the past and the present in a way that completes it each time like solving a puzzle slowly. A second chance romance among childhood best friends to lovers, where each of them struggles with something but they share the same love for books and each other, leading them back to each other again after years. 

2. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

A book that can be read as a stand alone or third in the series “Part of your world”. When Emma and Justin realise they may have a curse where the person they date and they break up, find their partner for life, they decide to meet up and make a deal. Dating each other and breaking up in order to find their love of life. Emma, who struggles with trauma, and Justin who’s s the guardian of his younger sisters for a while, follows up to the deal be broken by falling in love with each other. 

3. Happy Place by Emily Henry

A summer without Emily Henry, is not summer. Happy Place is about a couple (Harriet and Wyn) who breaks up but haven’t yet told their best friends when they find themselves on a group trip in order to not ruin it. A fake dating, second chance type of book that promises a lot and meets the expectations. 

4. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

A delightful romance with Charlie and Nora that gives us work rivalry in a small town when Nora visits the town with her sister for vacation from the big city. It finds Nora (literary agent) running into a well known editor and she starts opening up to him and the rest is well.. history. A favorite from Emily because it also doesn't focus entirely on the couple but also on the future of Nora's and the sister bonding.

5. Chestnut Springs by Elsie Silver

A small town series that follows love stories with the Eaton family with each book written about each Eaton brother and a new couple. It features tropes such as enemies to lovers (Flawless), grumpy x sunshine, single dad (Heartless), childhood friends to lovers with second chance, (Powerless), one night stand x pregnancy trope (Reckless), family rivalry (Hopeless). It falls deeper into dynamics, development of characters set in a small town in Canada.

Flawless: The series starts with the bull rider Rhett Eaton and his PR manager, Summer Hamilton, as they navigate their attraction while dealing with Rhett’s public image crisis.

Heartless: Focuses on single dad and rancher Cade Eaton and the free spirited Willa, who becomes his son’s nanny.

Powerless: Features Jasper, a childhood friend of the Eaton’s and specifically Beau’s and Sloane as they navigate their feelings for each other after years of friendship and after he helps her escape her wedding.

Reckless: Navigates the relationship of Theo Silva, a bull rider (Rhett’s Eaton friend) and Winter Hamilton (Summer’s sister) after an unexpected pregnancy. A grumpy x sunshine trope that leaves you with all sort of sobs.

Hopeless: The series ends with a fake engagement between Beau Eaton, a military hero with PTSD, and Bailey Jensen, a local bartender, to help them both escape their pasts, leading them to fall in love with each other.

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