ARC Review: This Time Next Summer by Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev

Genre ~ young adult

Featuring ~ dual timeline, characters in their 20’s, parental infidelity

Release date ~ April 5, 2022

POV ~ dual ~ 3rd person

Page count ~ 205

My rating ~ I am around at 2.90-3.15⭐ for this one

My review:

Read in March 2022.

Avgust & Jasmine drove me absolutely batty! They were back and forth, up and down and all over the place and in between.
Their story was told between the past and present following both of their lives. It was interesting to have the mini-chapters within the chapter.
I did find the day they met in the coffee shop sweet. Each talking to themselves about the other was kind of cute.

Avgust is the winner of compliment king 👑. Guess what? He thinks Jasmine is beautiful. Wanna know how i know? Cuz he told her like 472 times. Okay fine, 60, but it surely felt like 472. He was a little too romantic for me taste. And he was hard for me to picture too since he’s a 6’6” half Russian, half Jewish nurse.

Jasmine has a hard time trusting people ~ especially men, since her father cheated on her mom and left her for a younger woman. She pulls and pushes and pulls and pushes and so on and so forth. I wish she treated Avgust better.

This was a quick and sad read.

*Thanks to BookSirens and the author for the ARC, I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

Book blurb:

In his semi-autobiographical novel, This Time Next Summer, Mikheyev weaves a tender tale about love and loss, one that is distinctly personal and yet universally human.

She was beautifully broken. And his everything.

Hurt and scarred by every man in her life, Jasmine had vowed to never love again. Then she meets Avgust, and her broken heart resumes beating.

A romantic idealist who measures love by his poetry output, Avgust had given up on finding that elusive once-in-a-lifetime kind of love he’d always dreamed of. But the moment he spies Jasmine in a coffee shop, he knows unequivocally that she is his Her—the woman who will change his life.

It was the perfect love story.

Until the secrets and betrayals of the past threaten to break them apart.

Will their love be strong enough to save Jasmine from her past, and Avgust from his future?