29 June

📚 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 📚 A Summer Thing by Michelle Chamberland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

TITLE: A SUMMER THING

GENRE: FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE BOOK

AUTHOR: MICHELLE CHAMBERLAND

PUBLICATION: JUNE 24TH, 2025

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Synopsis

Five things Declan can see: A broken past disappearing in her rearview mirror. A bright new future ahead of her. And the beautiful, mysterious, scowling, tattooed stranger standing in the middle of her best friend’s dark hallway—his stormy gray eyes, and every broken piece of himself she knows exists inside of her, too.

Four things Jude can feel: His draw to the gorgeous girl he’s not allowed to have. Her laughter skipping up his spine. The gravitational pull dragging him deeper, and deeper, into her orbit. The ghosts of the past she reminds him of—someone he once loved and lost.

Three things Declan can hear: Her heart beating louder when Jude is near. Her mind screaming a thousand dark thoughts. His gruff words calming her like she’s never experienced before.

Two things Jude can smell: Trouble, spelled with six letters that go the way of D-e-c-l-a-n. Her intoxicating scent as he continues to tempt himself with what isn’t his.

One thing they can both taste: Each other, as they slowly slip from strangers, to friends, to lovers, to soulmates over the span of five summers—from a summer thing, to a forever thing.

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My Review

'𝐀 𝐒U𝐌M𝐄R T𝐇I𝐍G' Is a full length friends to lovers romance book by new to me author Michelle Chamberland. Spoken in dual Pov's. Spanning over 5 summers.

Initially it was the cover that made me purchase this, (super cute, gorgeous cover) I didn’t even look at the reviews, dived in that night and fell in love wholeheartedly with these two characters and the side characters.

What to expect:

💋Forced Proximity

💋Slow Burn

💋Friends to Lovers

💋Summer Romance

💋Trauma-Healing

This was an easy 5 star (Little D) rating to give this book. I went in with no expectations and came out the end of it with a heart full of love for these two characters. This wrapped its arms around me within the tightest hold, cocooned within the feels as these two collided. Their emotional journey entwined within their deepest broken parts of themselves. Both knowing what it feels like to lose someone they’ve loved. A bond created through friendship over summers spent together. The truest form of soulmates.

...“𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲.”

Even though this was my first read by this author. It definitely won’t be the last. This author had me eating out of the palm of her hand, inhaling this book at record speed.