It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

3.2/5 stars

This book was like fine. I don’t really have too many complaints about it.

After a humiliating breakup, an illegal party and a night spent in jail, Piper finds herself in a nightmare of a situation.

She along with her sister are being sent away from the money, mansions, and galas to a remote town near the sea, the town she had once called home before the death of her dad. A fitting punishment in the eyes of her stepfather. Piper needs to be taught a lesson any 28-year-old woman should have known long prior: aspirations and responsibility.

This was the very opposite of a slow burn and that kind of disappointed me. While I was reading I was really getting the vibe that they were gonna have a slow-burn romance and I feel like that definitely would’ve fit this story, but alas it turned into what it did very quickly.

A lot of the dialogue, especially on Piper’s end was super cringey and not anything a normal 28-year-old woman would say. For instance, how she calls Brendan’s hugs, “recharging ports” or something. I don’t even know, I just tried to get past it and keep reading.

This book was fine for what it was advertised as: a rom-com. It was really nothing more than an easy afternoon read to make the time go by.