ARC received from Harlequin Australia for an honest review

I knew from reading the synopsis that Summers With Juliette was going to be an emotional read, so I was prepared for it.

What I wasn’t prepared for was the for the punch that this book packed.

It is a gut wrenching, heart breaking but also heartwarming of friendship, and what lengths friends go to for each other. It is about mending broken friendships, forging new relationships.

Juliette calls on the pinky swear she, Sera and Anna made when they were teenagers. She is dying and wants to spend one last summer with her best friends.

I loved Juliette from the minute the book started. So strong, she has had so many horrible things happen in her life, but she lives her life every day with a smile. I want to be as strong as her when I grow up!

Anna and Sera, each with their own problems but they come together for Juliette, and while they are repairing their friendship, they are forging life changing relationships with men they meet while in town.

From the blurb you know that there are going to be heartbreaking moments. But boy the one that I knew was going to happen still took a strong grip on my heart and felt like it was squeezing the life out of me.

It is hard to believe that this is Ms Madden's debut novel. The story, the writing, the emotion leapt off the pages, and I could not put Summers With Juliet down once I started.

This is a wonderful read, so grab a cuppa and a box of tissues and dive in. You will not be disappointed.

I cannot wait to see what Ms Madden has for us next.