A review by sami_leigh
Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
🌶️/5

“Am I the asshole?”

🛶 First person Dual POV
🛶 Guardian to younger siblings 
🛶 Travel nurse who can’t stay in one place 
🛶 Emma and Justin are cursed. Everyone they’ve dated, and broken up with, has found their soulmate immediately. So why not try dating each other for a few weeks, break up and meet their own soulmates? If only it were that simple.
🛶 Insta-chemistry / fate
🛶 Slow burn / tension 🔥
🛶 Found family
🛶 ALL the acts of service, ‘mundane’ demonstrations of love 🥹
🛶 A heart-aching representation of a daughter breaking herself, and denying herself of happiness to put her mother first in the hopes that she will love her back. Beautifully written.  
🛶 Well established secondary characters: Alexis & Daniel (Book 1), Brianna & Jacob (Book 2), Benny, Brad, links to characters from other series
🛶 MC Growth: trust, risking a relationship, childhood trauma, past relationship trauma, self worth, abandonment/avoidant attachment
🛶 Considerate representation of mental illness 
🛶 Epilogue
🛶 On my comfort reads list 😍
🛶 I sobbed. In the best way.

Available on Kindle, Audible, and paperback.

⚠️ Toxic relationship (family), mental illness, parental abandonment, death of a parent (past), medical content (FMC is a nurse), PTSD, anxiety disorder, childhood trauma/neglect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent