I loved that we could see her growing up as the book moves from one summer to the next, her perspective changing as she does. Strawberry Summer is told in the first person from Margaret’s perspective, which means we get to know her best and see everyone else through her eyes. Can she let the past go and give her first love a second chance? The Characters And while the spark is still there, so are the scars. Memories and feelings long shoved down start to resurface, despite Margaret’s determination to ignore them. The last thing Margaret expects five years later is to see Courtney back in Tanner Peak. They keep things going by long distance during the year while they’re in college, and each summer Courtney returns to town, until circumstance intervenes and Courtney leaves Maggie alone and brokenhearted. When Courtney returns to Tanner Peak the following summer to work at her father’s department store, she and Maggie strike up a relationship that quickly runs deep and beautiful. For those few short weeks before Courtney and her mother move across the country, she makes Maggie’s life sparkle. Courtney doesn’t care that she’s in a family of strawberry farmers or that her only friend is her cousin Bertha. Margaret Beringer is shy and awkward, trying to draw as little attention to herself as possible at school when Courtney Carrington blows into her life and takes an interest in her. Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden is a second chance romance that will stick with you for a long time and maybe even make you think of your first love.

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