Title: The Summer Remains
Author: Seth King
Genre: NA Romance, full length, stand alone
Overall Rating: ★★★✩✩
Synopsis
Twenty-four-year-old Summer Johnson knows two things. The first is that due to a quickly worsening medical condition, she faces a risky surgery in three months’ time that may or may not end in her death. The second is that she would like to fall in love before then. As spring sinks into her namesake season on the Florida coastline, Summer plays the odds and downloads a new dating app - and after one intriguing message from a beautiful surfer named Cooper Nichols, it becomes clear that the story of what may be her last few months under the sun is about to be completely revised. All she has to do now is write something worth reading. Tender, honest, devastating and triumphant, The Summer Remains explores a very human battle being waged in a very digital age: the search for a love that will outlast this temporary borrowing of bones. In an era when many feel compelled to share and re-share anything about everything, prepare to feel a love so special, you will want to hug it close and make it yours forever.
Review
A heartbreaking yet uplifting story about acceptance, resilience and compassion.
Summer Martin Johnson – funny, smart, quirky strong and determined. Summer sets out to spend her remaining days by falling in love. Using an online dating app, Spark, she is matched with Cooper Nichols. Cooper, intelligent, compassionate and kind, has an instant connect with Summer. They come together for one last summer, finding a forever kind of love in one another that is as inspiring as it is healing. I laughed and cried and in the end I was left with a feeling of happy satisfaction that Summer and Cooper were able to find and share that love with one another.