🎧 Book Review: Plotting Summer by Jess Heileman 

4.5⭐
Genre ~ romantic comedy
Series ~ Falling for Summer #3
Others in the series ~ Falling for Summer series
Setting ~ Sunset Harbor, an island off the coast of Florida
Publication date ~ ebook ~ June 26, 2024, audio ~ August 12, 2024
Publisher ~ Dreamscape Media
Est Page Count ~ 354 (p+ 29 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 29 minutes
Narrator ~ Ellen Quay
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ small town, island life, secret author, secret teenage crush, neighbors to lovers, friends to lovers, no 3rd act breakup, no steamage

My review:

Capri & Tristan lived next door to each other growing up. She had a secret crush on him and penned a novel about it. Never thinking it would go anywhere it turned out to be a bestseller. She has kept her identity as the author a secret for years. Now that she’s back on the island, and Tristan is near, can she keep not only her pen name a secret, but also the fact that she still harbors that crush for the newly single boy next door?

Oh my gosh, this was adorable and sweet and fun! Both characters were great and their banter was top notch. Tristan is book boyfriend material for sure. Can I get a woo hoo for no 3rd act breakup?! Overall, delightful!

I’m not quite sure why I haven’t read this author before, but I’ll be fixing that asap.

Series notes:
The timeline is the same for each book meaning the characters from other books in the series are in the background, but haven’t necessarily had their story told yet. I like this way of doing things since it doesn’t make it absolutely necessary to read them in order, but it’ll be better if you do.

Narration notes:
She did great.

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Book blurb:

The book is always better than the movie. But occasionally, life is better than the book.

Ten years ago I made a mortifying, life-altering mistake. Now, this once seemingly insignificant choice is threatening to wreck my entire existence. And possibly throw Tristan Palmer—my next-door-neighbor and the guy I’ve had a secret crush on for the entirety of my life—into the fray unaware.

The mistake?

I am Sunny Palmer. As in the anonymous, best-selling author of over a dozen beloved romances and renowned thief of Tristan’s last name. Okay, not renowned yet, thank the high heavens! But that news will spread like wildfire if people discover that this introverted book nerd is the woman behind the pen name. And the fact that my first book, Secret Crush, is Tristan’s and my fictionalized love story leaves zero room for calling it anything but what it is—a travesty of greatest proportions.

That’s why NO ONE can know! Ever!

So it’s wretched luck that when I finally visit Sunset Harbor, the small-town island where I grew up, I run into the still heart-stopping, book-boyfriend-worthy man himself. And shockingly, Tristan seems intent on reminding me what the island has to offer. Because that’s what friends do.

Logic demands I resist his charm and guard my secret at all costs, which is why it’s vastly unfortunate that Tristan Palmer was and always will be … my greatest weakness.

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