Review of Chasing Summer: A Novel

This is a slow-burn second-chance romance. Elise is a screenwriter, and she moves to a small town to be the writing teacher at a summer camp. Ben, the lead actor on her last project, offers her the job at his family’s camp. When she arrives, she soon learns her next-door neighbour is her first love. As Elise spends the summer working at the camp and writing her next screenplay in her free time, she realizes she needs to make a difficult choice between Ben and Dave. Even though Dave ghosted her all those years ago, she can’t help her current attraction to him, but Ben offers her a plan for a great life. I loved the setting and descriptions of the small town and countryside of Prince Edward County in Canada. It sounded idyllic! Overall, the story was a bit too slowly paced for me, and I would have liked a bit more character development.