Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver
Format: eARC (NetGalley
Publication Date: 17 July 2025
Author info: Instagram | Goodreads
💭 My thoughts...
4/5 stars
The premise of this book really reeled me in - the idea of getting to pretend to be an author piqued my interest, and I have enjoyed previous offerings from Josie Silver, so I figured this was a sure-fire hit.
For the most part I was right. This book featured the same attention-grabbing, witty writing that I came to know in the author's previous writing, but it felt somewhat heightened in this book. The banter and the character creation was on-point throughout.
While I enjoyed watching Kate and Charlie's interactions, and felt invested in their storyline, I was definitely reading for Kate. She was a fantastic character - witty, charming, vulnerable and relatably genuine. I loved seeing her wear her heart on her sleeve.
I also adored her relationship with her sister, Liv. She was also a brilliantly written character, with her no-bullshit attitude to everything really grabbing my attention whenever it appeared on the page.
I hesitated from giving it 5 stars purely because the ending felt a little rushed. I get that the book was called Slow Burn Summer, and it delivered on the slow burn, but I would have liked more time to see the characters build their happy endings, rather than them feeling thrown at me in the last 20 pages.
As a side note, I would really love to read The Power Of Love - the book that Kate ghost-authored; it sounded incredible.
*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
📖 Synopsis...
Charlie is a talent agency manager looking for an actor to be the face of a new novel of a famous author who is changing genre and doesn't want to be known as a romance author. Kate is a divorced mum who has spent the last 20 years focusing on her family and is looking for a fresh start. Their paths cross and things take many twists and turns as the lies they create spiral out of control. Ultimately, they need to figure out exactly how blurred the lines can or should become.
