Bluebelle-the-Inquisitive (Catherine)’s Reviews > Summers Power > Status Update

The last chapter is all Max challenging Sam to be a Winters. And I am totally here for it.
Max refers to himself as the "banished knight of the round table". And just wow to that line alone.
😍 The last lines are perfect for the book. I know it is the first and I'm reading an ARC but now I want more.

You know that feeling you get when you know a book is part of a series but you don't know where the book is ending? I'm at that point. I've got three chapters left. Max and Sam are about to stop dancing around each other but what does HFN mean for B.L. Jones?
I'm guessing Jacob and his drama will be unresolved but Sam and Max will be trying for their happiness.

Sam's fingers tighten in my hair and he rasps against my cheek, "This is... I want this. I want... you."
Just when I'm about to press my mouth against Sam's, in a show of willingness to descend into this madness with him, Isabella starts shouting at the top of her lungs to be let down from the swing.

Love Isy so much. 😍 Her timing is impeccable for tension. This is just a Moment.

"You've had a thing for Max Summers since the first time he gave you a black eye and called you a "waste of any tree's good work", whatever the hell that means. Don't pretend this is new, brother. I'm not stupid."

Honestly surprised that the first one to make the subtext text is Will. And that is a fantastic, near cerebral insult to familial lineage from Max.

After a brief hesitation, Sam nods. He doesn't look pleased about it, in fact, he looks downright defiant in the face of it, but he still nods, backing down for once in his life on my say-so, which is another shock to the system all on its own.

And that is the meaning of Summer's Power. Well part of it. Max is oblivious to the power he has over Sam. I like it that way.

"Dare," I say, because, yeah, I'm really that drunk.
Sam thinks for a full minute before a wicked smirk splits his lips into a sharp curve. Fuck. I'm in trouble.

Sam and Max playing truth or dare in a queer bar is undeniably amusing. They do not pull punches, nor would I expect them to. I should have guessed it was going to be some kind of challenge that lead to their indulging their potential but alas...

"So, you admit that I'm still your enemy."
"I don't know what you are to me anymore."

These are twin lines consecutively spoken but over a page apart as time and tension swirls around Max and Sam. Sam's line is the second and oh that may as well be a bomb to Max. Even if he can't fully compute it in the moment.

I shrug. "Sam wanted some backup."
"Ah, so you were emotionally blackmailed into it. Nice." Zara nods along as if that makes actual sense.

Two seconds after meeting Zara and I already like her. She feels like Jade's opposite. Zara is Max's not-a-date. I'm guessing though that Zara will spend her evening with Charlotte, Sam's maybe-a-date, while Max and Sam spend it with each other.

Natalie Penelope Summers
Beloved Daughter, Mother, and Wife
"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies"
-Queen

The whole section at the cemetery was just beautiful. The story behind the daisies was unexpected but lovely. Max owes Sadie more than she will likely even know.

😮 The thing I thought was going to be close to the end game just happened. Sam told dearest Granddad no. No to the kingdom. No to the drugs. No to the arms deal. No to the power.
Now I worry. I believe Max is capable if taking care of himself but Elijah, Aiden and Isabella or heaven forbid Rory and Cat? They are not. The kids are the weakest point here. The place both men can be hit for highest pain return.