A To Z Book Review: Just For The Summer By Abby Jimenez

My Letter “J” pick for the A to Z book challenge was JUST FOR THE SUMMER by Abby Jimenez. I’ve seen her books everywhere, of course, but this is the first of hers that I read. It will definitely not be the last. Wow, did I love this book. So much.

Justin makes a post on Reddit one day and shares that he is, in fact, cursed. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soulmate after they break up with him. Emma happens to be perusing the site, comes across his post and instantly messages him to say “Hey, me too!” He replies, they begin to commiserate, that turns to some really fun banter, and before you know it, they’re facetiming and texting every day.

Emma, along with her best friend Maddie, is a traveling nurse whose current contract is up. Justin hatches a plan: they should both date and break up, thereby breaking their own curses. Emma gets Maddie on board, they move to Minnesota on a new nursing contract for the summer, and Emma and Justin plan four whole dates and one obligatory kiss before they go their separate ways.

This, of course, doesn’t go as planned because they start falling for each other, and hard. And I fell in love with their love just as hard. Life, unfortunately gets in the way in the form of Emma’s childhood trauma revisiting and a wretched complication in Justin’s life that neither of them are prepared for. This leads to some solid punches in the feels between the laughter – lots of laughter – and a slow burn that keeps derailing any plan for intimacy to a hilarious level. This book was a blazing five stars. I only wish it had gone on forever.