This was unlike any memory loss thriller I've read and I was here for it! What an interesting take with complex characters.

Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have read and loved every book that Kerry Lonsdale has written and this is another good book by her that had many twists and turns that were totally unexpected. I loved the premise of forgetting very important things in Ella's life and wondering why something like that would happen, I loved the characters of Damien, Ella and Nathan and it kept me guessing as to how this all tied together. It was suspenseful, it had deceit and kept me guessing until the reveal of the "why". Up to that point I was all in and trying in my own mind to figure out how something like this could happen but the "why" seemed contrived, maybe even unbelievable, but the ending made sense for the storyline. I don't know that I really liked the ending, but it did make sense.

Overall, it was a good book. Kerry does a good job in keeping the suspense going and the reader guessing and I couldn't have guessed all the twists and turns, so the book/writer did their job masterfully.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Ella is in an accident, and loses her baby....but she can't remember certain things before the accident, including being pregnant....especially when her husband has decided he doesn't want kids.

She's a journalist and in the past has interviewed Nathan Donovan, who seems to know her well, but she can't remember him, or interviewing him.

She goes on a mission to find her lost memories....but will the past haunt her or bring her peace?

This book had an ending I didn't see coming!

Outstanding, addicting and full of twists and turns right to the last page!

This was the first Kerry Lonsdale book I have read but it will definately not be my last. I hope there is a sequal to this amazing book!

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and Ms. Lonsdale for allowing me to provide my honest opinion.

Holy Cannoli! What did I just read?? This was my first read by Kerry Lonsdale and now I want to drop everything and read her entire backlog. I absolutely inhaled this book in less than one day. I"m pretty sure my husband was ecstatic when he knew I had finally finished because no-one was talking to me until I did. I was obsessed with figuring out this storyline. I'm just blown away at the creativity. I loved it. Wowza.

That said, there were times when I was reading it where I got frustrated with several of the characters' actions. Now that I look back, it all makes sense. This was definitely one twisty tale and I enjoyed every word! My heart did break through a good portion of the book as our main character, Ella, lost her son at 21 weeks gestation in a car accident. However, her grief is different from most because she is unable to actually grieve Simon since she can't remember him or the pregnancy at all. Her search for the truth is baffling and that is where I will leave it because you will want to read this book without any spoilers from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really liked this book! It took me to many different places in my brain. I was sad, I was confused, I was shocked, angry and in disbelief! With all those emotions, I thought the book was really great! I think you will enjoy it, too! Comes out July 9! Let me know if you read it.~Janell @ Green Gables Book Reviews

Ella wakes up in a strange place. Where is she? What are these strange smells? The smell of food makes her feels sick. She’s in pain. Her stomach, her wrist. Pain. Why?

Damien is there. Why is he so upset? Ella can’t remember, but she was in a car accident. He is frustrated with her. Is she dreaming? Was she really in a car accident? What is Damien talking about? Who’s Simon? Wait…she was pregnant? Their unborn baby didn’t survive the car accident? What is he talking about? Why is he so frustrated with her? He says, “You were never supposed to forget Simon.”

The Doctor comes, asks about what she remembers last. She remembers making dinner, pork chops. Damien came home, he said, “We have to talk.” She doesn’t say out loud that she remembers that. The Doctor calls this Selective Memory Loss. Give it time, Ella.

Months go by, no memories return. She and Damien have been in love since they first met and now things are different, there’s a distance.

They still haven’t talked about Simon. She gets a call. It’s time to get back to work. She jumps at the chance. She hasn’t told her boss about her memory loss. She can handle this interview. She’s interviewed so many people. She remembers all those interviews. Why doesn’t she remember this person? Where are her notes from when she interviewed Nathan Donovan before?

Damien wants her to go to London with him and ditch the interview.

She wonders if going to do this interview might help her memory. A little time away. Get back to what she loves to do. She goes, when she arrives, Nathan knows more about her than she knows about him. She’s curious about why she’s shared so much about herself with him. In hopes of jogging her memory, Ella goes with him on his adventures in the Sierra Nevada, snowmobiling and a trip to Alaska. It is all to get the interview she needs for her magazine, right? Is there more that she is looking for? Is it really all about getting the interview?

Maybe there are somethings she doesn’t really want to know. Maybe some things might be best left forgotten.

This is an intense twisted story of domestic suspense. Ella was pregnant and in a car accident...but she doesn't remember. She also doesn't remember being pregnant and losing her baby. But...apparently for a time after the accident she did. How can this be? Why does her husband Damien seem so sympathetic one minute...but then so angry the next? What secrets is Damien hiding? What secrets is Ella hiding? This book kept me guessing all the way through it to the end.
Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Kerry has done it again, weaving a story you are sure you have figured out only to throw in a plot twist. This physcological mindblowing story is filled with love, lies and deceit. Who is telling the truth, who is lying, and who is really truly in love? When should we bite our tongue and keep a secret from those we love and when should we be completely honest.

The story is all about Ella a journalist who is in an accident and loses her memory and her unborn son. She spends months trying to to remember last summer and how she got where she is today, she is confused about her marraige, her life, and her morals. She has had many losses in her life and maybe that is why she is unable to remember her pregnancy, the last summer, the accident and everything in between.

She goes back to Nathan to redo an interview from the preveious summer in hopes it sparks her memory. Meeting Nathan are stirred up more feelings of confusion, anger and doubt about herself, her marriage, her life in general. Her husband remain distant and cold throughout the book, which due to events in the book seem understandable,but are they really or is he playing his own mindgames?

Ella is a lifestyle journalist (a new definition for me). After years of investigative journalism and many high celebrity scoops, she has settled into a married life with another high powered entrepreneur who was also a subject of her interviews.

Now Ella is seeking an interview with a subject whom she has interviewed before, also very high profile but who cancelled the entire interview. What is puzzling is that for one Ella cannot remember any detail of this interview, the man or the details and secondly anything related to this subject is not found on her data bases. The first is understandable. Ella is traumatised after an accident in which she lost her baby but the second is the strange part. Ella is a professional through and through and details of her past work is all recorded except this one.

Damien and Ella and Nathan form a triangle which is not quite what it seemed to be. The story is suspenseful, the ending even more so.

I read this story quite skeptical and looking at it from afar. It will appeal to many though.

Wow, what an intense and thrilling read! I loved the relationship between Ella and Damien! I really enjoyed all the twists in this book! Just when I thought I had it all figured out I was again thrown for a loop. I would love to read more books by this author!

Ella has woken up in the hospital and forgotten not all of her life, but some major parts of it. Like her pregnancy and her baby. And the baby's death. Her husband is by her side every moment, but there was just something about him that I didn't trust. From. The. Beginning.
I didn't like Damien. I mean, I didn't like Ella either. I didn't even like Nathan. I mean, okay, I fell for a few of the moments that I was supposed to fall for. But I wasn't swept away by him. Something just felt off about every character. But not in a mysterious way. Like an I-don't-like-these-people way. I didn't like the people in Gone Girl, they were despicable, but I was so deliciously intrigued by them that I HAD to keep going and I loved moment of it. That's what this book was missing.
I've read a few of these books with unreliable narrators, and usually the plot comes so out of the blue because even the little bread crumbs that are left around for the reader don't all add up.
Not so with this book. (Or maybe just with this reader?)
I figured out 80% of this book within the first couple chapters. Literally. I saw everything coming twenty miles away. And maybe that's why I found the whole middle section of this book bland. But what kept me reading, was the fact that maybe, just maybe the author wanted me to know everything that early and there were going to be some major twists. I mean, I've seen other readers talking about "THAT TWIST." So I kept reading. Waiting for the the twist. You know, the twist that I saw twenty miles away--give or take a few.
Okay, so I didn't know all the details and how. But I knew, I just KNEW what was happening and what was going to happen. So by the time I got to the end, I was pretty much right. I don't know even know how I was right, but I was. And I wish I wasn't. If I hadn't seen it coming, it would have been a really interesting twist. I would have been raving about it. So maybe when you read it, you won't see it coming and you'll rave about it. I wish I could.

This book kept me on the edge of my seat from the beginning. I had guesses of what could be happening but none of them were correct. Great book and love all books by Kerry.

Ella is someone who remembers every detail of her life, but the one thing she has no memory of is being pregnant and losing her child in a car accident. She seeks help uncover the memories she has somehow hidden away. This takes her to places she never dreamed and potentially life she never knew she could have.

I spent an entire afternoon completely immersed in Kerry Lonsdale's upcoming book, Last Summer. Ella is suffering from memory loss after a car accident. She can't even remember being pregnant or losing the baby. As Ella and her husband, Damian, try to keep their marriage from imploding, devastating secrets are revealed. I'm hoping for a second book to continue this story!

Can you always trust your memories? What about if you have no memory of something? That's the question facing Ella who, after a car accident, loses a baby but has no memory of being pregnant. Sure there's evidence that she was but what happened to her that night? What's the deal with her husband Damien? Good guy? Bad guy? And why does Nathan Donovan, a celebrity adventurer (what a job!) know a lot about her? Lots of questions in this review but the deal is- no spoilers! You'll find yourself asking even more- ahead of when Ella does- as you read and that's a good thing. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. Entertaining read.

Always reliable, Kerry Lonsdale has done it again with her latest release. Perfect poolside, and guaranteed to distract on any flight , Last Summer is the perfect vacation read, the only downside is that once you start you may not want to put it down.
Ella Skye is a successful lifestyle journalist, happily married to her adoring husband Damien. She has it all until one day it is taken away in a horrific car accident that kills her unborn baby boy. Deeply traumatized, when she wakes in the hospital she has no memory of losing her son, or even of ever being pregnant despite remembering everything else up to the moment of the accident- how she met her husband and fell in love, her friends and colleagues from work, and even the loss of her parents as a child. She desperately seeks answers from her husband, but in his grief he has closed himself off, turning instead to work. It seems that Ella will do the same when she is assigned an exclusive interview, but from the beginning something seems off- she has no idea who the celebrity in question is ,despite having interviewed him previously. Adding fuel to her suspicion is her husbands reaction when he hears about the interview and begs her to stay away. On meeting her interviewee, Nathan, Ella immediately feels a connection and he seems perturbed to hear about her memory loss. In hopes of unlocking her lost memories , Ella agrees to spend more time with him, but the truth she begins to uncover may break her heart all over again.
Dramatic, emotional and intense, Last Summer is a captivating story of deception, heartbreak and betrayal. The characters are easy to relate to despite their glamorous lives, the emotional journey they take the reader on is considerable. Yes it is a little far fetched, and the ending feels a little rushed given the build up of the book as a whole, but it is still a very enjoyable and entertaining read.
I read and reviewed an ARC courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher, all opinions are my own.

Linda's Book Obsession Reviews "Last Summer" by @Kerry Lonsdale, Lake Union Publishing, July 2019

Kerry Lonsdale, "Last Summer" has written an intense, intriguing, and captivating novel. The Genres for this Novel are Fiction, Suspense, Psychological Thriller, and Romance.  The timeline for this story is mostly in the present and goes back to the past when it pertains to the characters or events in the story. There are twists and turns, betrayals and lies. The author describes her characters as complex and complicated.

Is there anything at all in your life you would willingly forget if you could? Ella Skye is a journalist, who seems to have selective memory loss. Ella remembers her husband Damien, but she can't remember significant and important things after her accident. Ella tries to solve this mystery by herself, and she has no idea what will change lives forever. I would recommend this page-turning novel for readers who enjoy a thought-provoking, and intense novel.

I genuinely enjoyed this quick read although I will say that it's pretty darn soapy. Which is fine. I did a lot of belief suspending, which is also fine. Don't read any spoilers, just read this book! It's the first book of Lonsdale's that I've read all the way through and I look forward to reading more!

I had no idea what I was in for with this one and let me just say that I was not expecting ANY of that. Like, what did I just read? The deception, the manipulation, the twists, the turns! Just when you feel like there’s a clear path to the end of the story, your life gets flip-turned upside down and just 🤯 And don’t plan on trying to dissect or decide if you like or are rooting for any of the characters because they continue to develop until the very end! And speaking of the end, y’all are NOT ready for this one. Brace your damn selves. This is my first read by Kerry and I’ll definitely be checking out her other books because this one was a wild and crazy ride!

REVIEW:
Well that was quite the story! Last Summer stirs a roller coaster of emotions with its interesting plot. It follows Ella Skye, successful writer and contributor to Luxe Avenue Lifestyle magazine. Having snagged the heart of Damien Russell, highly sought-after CEO and founder of a San Francisco based cyber-security firm, living in a dream home and with a close college friend and confidante nearby for girls nights out, she seems to have it all. Until she wakes up in a hospital after a devastating car crash, with a significant portion of her memory blocked...a pregnancy she cannot remember and the loss of a baby she cannot truly mourn.

The theme of memory loss, in and if itself, has been done in books before (though I confess to still finding it intriguing when done well). What’s not usual, is the particular twists that this plot takes. It was quite clever, if not a bit troubling.

This story was cyclical for me...it captured my attention from the start, but after awhile it began to feel a bit predictable and overdone. Eventually, I found myself not caring for the characters erratic behaviors, poor decisions and skewed values. However, the author had more up her literary sleeve than I anticipated, and the plot twist recaptured my attention, offered some interesting explanations and left me contemplating this provocative and problematic situation.

This story was surprising, disconcerting, thought-provoking and easily-readable. It had a bit of everything, including romance, betrayal, heartbreak, friendship and lies. This is my first Kerry Lonsdale story, but I’m now intrigued to read more by this author.