Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Reviewed By: Rebecca Cox, Business Manager
Genre: Fiction
Suggested Age: Adults
What is This Book About? Just for the Summer is a romantic comedy centered around travel nurse Emma and software engineer Justin who meet thanks to a Reddit thread. Emma and Justin realize that they have the same “curse” that whoever they date then goes on to find their soul mate immediately after they break up. They decide to try to break their curses by dating each other.
My Review: I honestly thought that this was going to be an incredibly predictable romantic novel (which, honestly, I sometimes like – especially in the summer for a bit of hammock reading) but this book brings equal parts romance and real world. Emma and Justin are very relatable characters each dealing with their own huge issues – much bigger than not finding the right person to date. Seeing them adjust to their lives and deal with their respective traumas brought a depth to this book that a lot of rom-com novels are lacking. And it helps that the writing was so good that I couldn’t put it down!
Three Words that Describe this Book: Witty, Romantic, Engaging
Give this a try if you like… Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez, This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune, Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score
Rating: 5/5
