took me a minute to realize this wasn't actually a sequel to fortune's first book......... 

i really enjoyed this one. buuuuut also? there are so many similar themes to "every summer after" with two love interests and familial loss and coming back home and the lake being a character and... on and on? as i think about it now, it feels almost too similar?? but while reading, i was really into the story and liked it a lot... so maybe as long as you have forgotten the plot of ESA, you'll be great here? 

didn't think this review was going to be critical but i think i just wanted something really new and fresh in the end, and what i got was just a spinoff of the same story i had already read and loved!!!