{"id":1656,"date":"2025-07-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vervebooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:39:41","slug":"most-anticipated-summer-reads-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vervebooks.co.uk\/blog\/most-anticipated-summer-reads-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Anticipated Summer Reads of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This has been one hot summer and it’s not over yet! We’re giving you the books we cannot wait to dive into before autumn arrives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lisa’s Pick: Sunstruck <\/em>by William Rayfet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outside of our own brilliant 2025 summer reads for July and August –\u00a0Send Flowers<\/a>, The Rivals<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Shred Sisters<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>– I’ve got\u00a0Sunstruck<\/em> by William Rayfet Hunter\u00a0on my TBR for this summer. I keep seeing it EVERYWHERE and it sounds like the perfect holiday read – I love a novel about\u00a0power and privilege too. Hunter was selected for the\u00a0Observer\u00a0<\/em>Best New Novelists list at the start of the year and I generally find this list to be books I will enjoy. I have read and loved two of their other recommendations –\u00a0Fundamentally\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Nesting\u00a0<\/em>and have two more of them on my reading list (The Benefactors<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Confessions<\/em>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Demi’s Pick: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil<\/em> by V.E. Schwab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you, like me, love something a little darker and chillier to stave off the summer heat, you must also be waiting to read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil <\/em>by V.E. Schwab. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners <\/em>proved that heat waves and vampires go hand in hand, and this is the same case with this highly anticipated gothic novel that spans over centuries, following three women in different time periods as each try to search for freedom, whether from their past, present or from themselves. It has similar themes to our upcoming novel Slashed Beauties<\/em> by A. Rushby<\/a> and Weyward <\/em>by Emilia Hart, but this is a spellbinding queer love story that I’ve been itching to get my hands on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ellie’s Pick: \u00a0Park Avenue<\/a><\/em> by Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m halfway through\u00a0Park Avenue<\/em> by Ren\u00e9e Ahdieh\u00a0and I can’t wait to jump back in! Billed as\u00a0Succession\u00a0<\/em>meets\u00a0Crazy Rich Asians\u00a0<\/em>with a touch of\u00a0Gossip Girl<\/em>, it’s a fun and suspenseful read following hot-shot lawyer Jia as she uncovers the truth about the super wealthy family at the helm of a billion dollar K-beauty brand. The case takes Jia from New York to Seoul, the Cayman\u00a0Islands and Paris as she follows the money – and her heart. Full of dreamy travel details, high fashion glamour, biting social satire and a sprinkling of romance,\u00a0Park Avenue\u00a0<\/em>is the perfect summer read.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jenna’s Pick: Long Island Compromise<\/em> by Taffy Brodesser-Akner<\/a>
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The paperback edition of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s highly\u00a0anticipated follow up to\u00a0Fleishman is in Trouble\u00a0<\/em>was recently\u00a0released, and I can’t wait to dive in this summer.\u00a0Long Island Compromise\u00a0<\/em>tells of the downfall of a wealthy Jewish American family after its patriarch is kidnapped and held for ransom for several days in\u00a01980. Flash forward to the present day, and the trauma they’ve buried in the intervening\u00a0years is about to surface, with devastating consequences. Expect: an intergenerational narrative that spans decades, in-depth portraits of highly complicated characters and an examination of wealth, identity and family. Plus, it’s a book that’s thick enough to last a good few days by the beach or pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(NB: If you haven’t already, dive into\u00a0Fleishman is in Trouble<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>– book or TV series, both are wonderful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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