In love with your Best Friend? Read these books this Summer
Another year, another summer. How many more until your heart decides to love another? Preferably one who isn’t the best friend you’ve been in love with since forever? I don’t know. But what I do know is that it’s a losing game to try to forget them. To replace them with another knowing they’d have to compete with someone who was there before them. Who holds more memories than you can count spanning years, if not decades with you. A friendship bond that only gets stronger with time. It’s a race they’d never win.
Feelings don’t disappear overnight or in a week. And the reality is, sometimes they never do. You could spend years watering down those emotions, pretending you are happy just being friends, or maybe even go without contact only to realize down the road the connection is still there.
So, if you’re the friend secretly pining for a friends-to-lovers trope miracle to happen in your life, you’re in luck because I have the perfect summer books to have you reminiscing about that friendship. Three stories that will keep the hope alive because as you’ll soon read about, odds are they love you back. Yes, in that way. And no one else stands a chance.
- Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Percy and Sam. Follow them in this epic read as they meet and fall in love on the glittering lakeshore of Barry’s Bay when they’re just thirteen years old. Paving the way to six entire summers filled with endless movie nights, friendship bracelets, lazy days by the water and almost kisses. Until a colossal mistake costs Percy her friendship with Sam and has her trying to bury the past for a decade. But as life would have it, out of tragedy comes a chance to reunite and make things right. Alternating between two different timelines, read what happens when two former best friends reunite and discover the connection is still there.
2. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Poppy and Alex are total opposites. They should never have met let alone become best friends, but they did. Thanks to a fateful night at the University of Chicago and Poppy’s extroverted nature to talk to strangers or in this case, the only other person alone at orientation. Alex is shy and prefers to be at home with a good book whereas Poppy lives for adventure. A coincidence puts them together to carpool home to Ohio, solidifying their friendship that continues after they’re no longer students. Despite living in different states for most of the year, they come together every summer to vacation somewhere new. From Nashville to New Orleans and a small island off the coast of Florida, they’ve done it all. Then one ill-fated summer in Croatia ruins everything and they don’t speak for two years. Poppy, determined to right what went wrong, convinces Alex to take one last vacation, for old times’ sake. A trip to Palm Springs that neither knows what to expect.
3. The Summer I turned Pretty Trilogy by Jenny Han
Belly has loved Conrad for as long as she can remember. It’s one of the reasons she’s always been excited to spend every summer at Cousins Beach. Three months of swimming, the beach, Fourth of July parties, and of course, the Fisher Boys. There’s Jeremiah, the youngest Fisher who Belly gets along with unlike his older brother, Conrad, whose emotions are hard to decipher. Sometimes it seems he reciprocates her undying love and other times it seems he just hates her guts. But a lot can happen in many summers and soon Belly finds herself in a love triangle with the two brothers, for which she will ultimately have to break one of their hearts.