Summer Wilde is a wannabe country music star. But when her latest girl band abandons her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past. Twenty years ago, the summer of ’77 was supposed to be the best summer of her life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow–the Four Seasons, 4ever–had big plans.
But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, “Nowhere,” Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. Arriving with hidden secrets and buried fears, those two months changed their friendships and the course of their lives.
Now, thirty-something and with no direction for her future, Summer is at a crossroads. Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she left and never wanted to see again. It’s the place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love’s voice.
Celebrating the songs of our hearts, the joys of love, and the threads of friendship that tie us all together, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck’s radiant story perfectly captures all the romance, heartache, and hope of the best summer ever.
* from Goodreads
Hott Review of The Best Summer of Our Lives:
Wow! Let me start by reiterating that I love comedies and mystery/suspense. They are my go-to and where I feel most comfortable. I almost always steer away from women’s fiction. There’s just too much drama and emotional baggage for me to read anything with feelings. However, I do love books about best friends either reuniting or coming together as adults after knowing each other as children. So as soon as I read the cover copy for The Best Summer of Our Lives I grabbed it without hesitation.
But then I started reading…. And I had trouble enjoying it because I kept waiting for the fallout. The emotional upheaval that I knew was sure to come. Rachel Hauck pulled me in so thoroughly that I felt the emotions of all the girls. The love, the pain, the betrayal, and the regret. And not only could I love them as friends and individuals that I saw myself and my choices reflected in so many of their conversations and experiences.
This book is real, it’s heart wrenching, and it’s an emotional journey that’ll leave you crying while you’re cheering for each Season.
I may have gotten The Best Summer of Our Lives on loan from NetGalley but I will be buying myself a physical copy because The Best Summer of Our Lives is something I’m going to have to experience again.
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