The Dream Summer

by Chrissy Q. Martin

When a prank backfires, I’m forced to spend the summer on an island with the guy I hate.I’m Bianca, the queen bee of Dream Prep Academy. The popular girl. The daughter of a billionaire. I’m ready for a dream summer after my senior year. But before I graduate, I prank the guy who humiliated me our freshman year. The one guy I can’t stand.Case is the school prankster, and he’s about to get a taste of his own medicine. Except the prank backfires, and Case and I become the owners of a private island with a rundown house. Our punishment is to spend the summer fixing up the house. We need to sell it and earn back what we owe my dad.It’s not my dream summer as we stay in a tiny cabin and pranks abound. We make a bet, and if someone leaves the island, the winner keeps the profit. But as house walls are torn down, so are the walls between us. We start to have fun, and the summer turns into something more. But I can’t help wondering if Case is playing me like he did our freshman year. Or is this the start of something wonderful?The Dream Summer is a standalone sweet romance in the Dream Prep Academy series. It’s perfect for fans of classic romcoms, enemy to lover romances, he falls first stories, and summer love. Start dreaming today with the swoony and sweet characters of Dream Prep Academy.

316 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2024

About the author

Chrissy Q Martin is a YA author. She loves happy endings, sweet kisses, laughs, a little drama, and lots of fun. All her books are no spice teen romances, perfect for young teens and the young at heart.

Chrissy is the shy girl in the corner but if give her some coffee she'll talk to you, especially if you want to talk books.

Discover all Chrissy's books, plus free books and fun stuff at her website: www.chrissyqmartin.com

Reviews

[emerson;) · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars ⭐️

*other than the fact that I accidentally started with like the 6th book in this series?🤨🤦🏾‍♀️😭*
I loved this book woohoo! So cuuuute
Some of the forced proximity did get a little content-y and imo every romance ideally would have the guy’s pov too but otherwise it was a great read
And I signed up to get the epilogues and the one for this book was so cute and made me very happy 😍🥰

Favorite quotes:
“We can still fix up the cottage, work on landscaping, and start pricing out things for the main house,” I say.
“Have a water gun fight, explore the town, teach Fifi to swim, get married,” Case adds with a smirk.


“I love you, Bianca,” Case says forcefully. “Probably always have and probably always will. And you know what, I hate myself for it, because I keep giving you less than you deserve.” Halp 😭❤️

[Chicken · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I'm a fan of such YA romances because of how many times a simply plot line gets twisted up and created into something fun. An adorable enemies-to-lovers, we find Bianca, someone who was someone I remember not to be liked in previous books, a nice, funny human being. The MMC chosen for her was perfect, with his goofiness and in all of his influencer glory. They were both weirdly down-to-Earth for being as rich as they were and that was fun to see. A wonderfully written story, one that I would definitely read again!

[Sara Munaco · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the book The Dream Summer by Chrissy Martin is about these two characters, the “queen bee” Bianca of Dream Prep Academy and Case (the cutest boy in school). After a prank gone wrong on Case Bianca got them stranded on an island where they had to rebuild a ripped up house for a cash prize. However, there were rules. The rules were if any of them left before the house was done the other person would get all of the money, but if both of them stayed and successfully rebuilt the house they would both get the cash prize and get to leave. The reason they were in this big mess is because Bianca has never liked Case and always thought he had too much of an ego, so she pulled a prank on him which went terribly wrong.
I really liked some things about this book. For example, I loved the sweet summer setting of the book because summer always gives off the romance fun vibe. Also, I always love a good happy ending, and this book set off a perfect example of one. I also loved how Case and Bianca went from enemies to lovers and how their relationship grew along the book. However, I loved this book, but I have some dislikes. For example, this book was a long paced book which tends to get boring. Also, I feel like the drama in the book was very repetitive, which never gave me something new.
I feel this book is good for people that love a good rom-com. Also, this book is great for teenagers that are always interested in the drama of a relationship. If anyone is looking for a good summer read this book is the one for them. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who likes these things.

[Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a really cute summer read!!

This is an enemies to lovers (but not the best)

A few this happened or were said that were kinda iffy

The main girl and guy are sharing a small house while they are stuck on an island together ⤵️
-they fall asleep together on the couch (nothing happens)

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The characters and plot were really good!!!

The main girl “grew up” a lot (it was really encouraging for me to read about how she learned that she didn’t have to always look perfect or act a certain way just for people to like her)