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A review by under_covers_smut_lover
The Summer You Found Me by Elizabeth O'Roark
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Rating 4.25⭐️
Spice 3🌶
Tropes:
-Ex-Best Friend of Husband
-Forbidden
-Forced Proximity
-Emotional
-Angsty
-Dual POV
This book is between Becks and Kate. It says it can be read as a standalone, but I wouldn't recommend it. I've not read the other books, and I wish I would have. The other characters are part of this book as well as these characters are part of theirs. I got a bit lost, as well as wanting more that was probably part of the other books.
Kate had been missing for the past year. After losing her baby girl, she has been through a lot. Her trauma and grief are a lot, and you feel that through these pages. Very emotional between these two characters. Kate is back, though, after leaving her second time in rehab. She is back to get her husband. FYI, her husband Caleb was book 2. He's already found his HEA, and that was something I'd wish I'd read. She doesn't handle her grief well at all. She makes bad choices to deal with it. Kate needs to work on herself a lot, and she knows this, but still makes bad choices. Her vengeance to win her her husband back is part of herself she needs to work on. Kate has a lot of flaws, and she is a character you can't help but hate at times.
Kate doesn't have a lot of friends or people in her corner. I know how that feels, and it hurts. Enter Becks, her husband's ex-best friend. He let's Kate stay stay with him. He has secretly wanted Kate for years. There is a past between these two characters that I would have loved to read more about. Becks also is dealing with some crap. I wish there would have been more POV with Becks. This book is mainly told through Kate's POV. The push and pull between these two, along with the angst, had Kate questioning what she really wants in life. Becks makes Kate feel like she belongs. When she's with him, she doesn't feel all these bad things. They have always loved each other, but life got in the way. I wanted to see their past and felt like I was missing something.
The author did a great job writing this. She made this story so realistic. She wrote the flaws and grief beautifully. This book made me feel so many emotions. You could feel the vulnerability between these two characters. I have never felt so many emitting in 1 book before. Going from crying to hating, then loving , back to hating again. This book was a rollercoaster of feelings, and I was holding on for it. You could feel what Kate was going through. The need for her to work on herself, I could relate to that. The addiction she deals with, I've also been through. Maybe that's why I hated Kate so much at times. I could see myself in her a lot. Great job, Elizabeth O'Roark. You got me all in my life feelings. The spice in this book was great. This was a romantic book at its core. The spice to go along with that was written beautifully.
I would definitely recommend reading this book. Maybe just read the first few books before jumping into this one. Especially book 2, read that one before. I received this as an Advance Readers Copy, and this is my honest opinion.
Trigger Warnings ⚠️
- Addiction
- Death of a baby
-Abandoned by parents
Spice 3🌶
Tropes:
-Ex-Best Friend of Husband
-Forbidden
-Forced Proximity
-Emotional
-Angsty
-Dual POV
This book is between Becks and Kate. It says it can be read as a standalone, but I wouldn't recommend it. I've not read the other books, and I wish I would have. The other characters are part of this book as well as these characters are part of theirs. I got a bit lost, as well as wanting more that was probably part of the other books.
Kate had been missing for the past year. After losing her baby girl, she has been through a lot. Her trauma and grief are a lot, and you feel that through these pages. Very emotional between these two characters. Kate is back, though, after leaving her second time in rehab. She is back to get her husband. FYI, her husband Caleb was book 2. He's already found his HEA, and that was something I'd wish I'd read. She doesn't handle her grief well at all. She makes bad choices to deal with it. Kate needs to work on herself a lot, and she knows this, but still makes bad choices. Her vengeance to win her her husband back is part of herself she needs to work on. Kate has a lot of flaws, and she is a character you can't help but hate at times.
Kate doesn't have a lot of friends or people in her corner. I know how that feels, and it hurts. Enter Becks, her husband's ex-best friend. He let's Kate stay stay with him. He has secretly wanted Kate for years. There is a past between these two characters that I would have loved to read more about. Becks also is dealing with some crap. I wish there would have been more POV with Becks. This book is mainly told through Kate's POV. The push and pull between these two, along with the angst, had Kate questioning what she really wants in life. Becks makes Kate feel like she belongs. When she's with him, she doesn't feel all these bad things. They have always loved each other, but life got in the way. I wanted to see their past and felt like I was missing something.
The author did a great job writing this. She made this story so realistic. She wrote the flaws and grief beautifully. This book made me feel so many emotions. You could feel the vulnerability between these two characters. I have never felt so many emitting in 1 book before. Going from crying to hating, then loving , back to hating again. This book was a rollercoaster of feelings, and I was holding on for it. You could feel what Kate was going through. The need for her to work on herself, I could relate to that. The addiction she deals with, I've also been through. Maybe that's why I hated Kate so much at times. I could see myself in her a lot. Great job, Elizabeth O'Roark. You got me all in my life feelings. The spice in this book was great. This was a romantic book at its core. The spice to go along with that was written beautifully.
I would definitely recommend reading this book. Maybe just read the first few books before jumping into this one. Especially book 2, read that one before. I received this as an Advance Readers Copy, and this is my honest opinion.
Trigger Warnings ⚠️
- Addiction
- Death of a baby
-Abandoned by parents
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Sexual content, Vomit, and Abandonment