Until Next Summer by Ali Brady #bookreview #contemporary #romance

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Title: Until Next Summer

Author:  Ali Brady

Publisher: Berkley

Publication Date: July 9, 2024

Page Count:  447 

My rating: 5 stars

About the book:

Two former best friends each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic novel that proves “once a camp person, always a camp person.”

Growing up, Jessie and Hillary lived for summer, when they’d be reunited at Camp Chickawah. The best friends vowed to become counselors together someday, but they drifted apart after Hillary broke her promise and only Jessie stuck to their plan, working her way up to become the camp director. 

When Jessie learns that the camp will be sold, she decides to plan one last hurrah, inviting past campers—including Hillary—to a nostalgic “adult summer camp” before closing for good. Jessie and Hillary rebuild their friendship as they relive the best time of their lives—only now there are adult beverages, skinny dipping, and romantic entanglements. Straitlaced Hillary agrees to a “no strings attached” summer fling with the camp chef, while outgoing Jessie is drawn to a moody, reclusive writer who’s rented a cabin to work on his novel.

The friends soon realize this doesn’t have to be the last summer. They’ll team up and work together, just like the old days. But if they can’t save their beloved camp, will they be able to take the happiness of this summer away with them?

Until Next Summer by Ali Brady is a new standalone contemporary romance novel. The story in Until Next Summer is one that does change the point of view between the characters in the book to give all sides of the story.

Growing up Jessie found the one place she wanted to spend the rest of her life in Camp Chickawah where she spent her summers. Jessie thought her best friend Hillary also had the dream of them one day becoming counselors at the camp with each counting down the days until summer began and they could return to their friendship and the camp. However as they got older Hillary found other interests and took an opportunity away from the camp and their friendship ended.

Now Jessie is hanging onto her Camp Chickawah dreams by the thinnest of threads being head counselor for the last several years now but has just learned the owners want to sell. If this is going to be her last summer at her beloved camp Jessie wants to make it memorable and invites all past campers for an adult camp and one last hurrah which Hillary decides to attend to rekindle the friendship they’d lost.

I just have to say first off that with Ali Brady being the pen name of authors Alison Hammer and Bradeigh Godfrey that this pair has certainly found magic in writing together. Until Next Summer is the third book the duo has penned and I have loved each and every encounter. I’m a sucker for a summer camp setting even still picking up young adult in that vein so Until Next Summer immediately drew my interest and pulled me right into the story. This one is a double romance for readers too with both women finding someone as they repaired their own relationship and I was rooting for everyone every step of the way. Great book that I’d definitely recommend!

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the authors:

Ali Brady is the pen name of writing BFFs Alison Hammer and Bradeigh Godfrey. THE BEACH TRAP is their first book together. Alison lives in Chicago where she works as a creative director for an advertising agency. She has published two solo books, YOU AND ME AND US and LITTLE PIECES OF ME. Bradeigh lives in Utah with her husband and four children. She works as a doctor, and her solo debut, IMPOSTER is forthcoming.