Just for the Summer

Soft DNF @ 72%

I am shocked that I'm DNFing this one, at least for now. Part of Your World and Yours Truly were so good, I flew through them in a couple of days each and were instant 5 stars, however this one just felt completely different and I can't force myself to carry on reading it at the moment.

For one thing, so much of the plot just seems so implausible - two travel nurses decide to stay in a cottage on an island in a lake with no access apart from a tiny row boat? In what world would people who have to go to work daily choose this? And the mysterious owner of said cottage just happens to be their boss, how would they not know this? And then her largely absent mother just happens to show up after 2 years to that exact cottage? ON A YACHT? I mean it's just absurd.

I've seen other reviews mentioning that a lot of things seem to have been lifted from TikTok, but I actively avoid TikTok like the plague so I'm not aware of those, but I will say that there was a lot of repetitive things (the Toilet King?), brand names mentioned over and over, cringey moments, etc.

I also really didn't get on with Emma, I get that she's been through trauma and that has changed how she approaches relationships but her attitude was just so selfish, her expectation that Justin should be happy with casual sex and form no attachments, whereas Justin thought he was being selfish in wanting more from Emma but he was not! He was totally valid in feeling that, especially in all the things he had going on in his life.

I don't know if I'll return to this at some point, or I'll just enjoy the first 2 books as they are and forget this one.