A hot summer with your ex’s ex? Iconic.
April is at a crossroads and doesn’t know what direction she wants her life to go in. She’s lost. So, she takes a summer job teaching art classes at a new resort opening just outside her hometown. A nice job and a cabin to stay in. What more could she ask for? Except, she’ll have to share the cabin with the other art teacher, which is not ideal, but she’s fine with it. Until she meets her new roommate, and she just so happens to be Daphne Love, the girl that April’s ex-fiancé cheated on her with.
I love both April and Daphne, and honestly saw myself in both of them, April especially. By the time you turn 30, you’re supposed to have it all figured out. But sometimes a 30-year-old can feel just as lost as a 20-year-old. I still feel lost a lot in my life, uncertain of where I should be or what steps I should take next.
The play on the one bed trope was fun, and the art competition that the two of them are thrown into is a nice added layer to the feelings simmering under the surface. Then you have Daphne attempting to free herself of the pull of Elena, and April navigating her changing friendship with Ramona (‘last seen in Dream On, Ramona Riley’). I think the introduction of Sasha, who the next book is about, was interesting. I wish we had seen her in the first book to truly have her incorporated into the world, but I’m excited to see her story play out nonetheless.
If you’re looking for a fun, spicy, queer summer romp of a story, this is it.
