Book: Summerween by Joss Wood
Reviewed by Michelles_Cosy_Booknook
Rating: 4.5/5
4.5 ⭐'s
A Halloween Lover's Dream Come True 🎃
Summerween is a cosy, small-town romance packed with humour, heart, and enough Halloween charm to make any spooky-season lover swoon.
As someone who adores all things Halloween, you can imagine how quickly I picked this book up. A town that celebrates the spookiest time of year all year round? I was sold immediately.
Solstice Springs—otherwise known as Halloween Town, or H-Town—is the kind of fictional place that makes you want to pack your bags and move in. With businesses sporting names like Spirited Grounds, I was mentally picking out curtains before the first chapter had even finished.
Wren Dunlop has returned to her hometown for a sabbatical from her successful career as a choreographer after yet another disastrous relationship. Meanwhile, Dr. Dane Trafford—known locally as "Hot Doc"—has rented a lakeside cottage while taking mandatory leave from his high-pressure job as a combat surgeon.
Both are looking for the same thing: rest, healing, and a chance to reassess their lives. Neither is looking for complications.
Then they meet.
Between helping organise the town's annual Summerween celebrations, attempts by the locals to convince Dane to become Solstice Springs' permanent doctor, and the growing attraction neither of them planned for, Wren and Dean quickly discover that life has other ideas.
Throw in interfering ghosts, a delightfully pushy godmother-mayor, hidden pasts, painful secrets, and a wonderfully eccentric cast of townsfolk, and this becomes an incredibly fun, fast-paced read filled with yearning, laughter, and plenty of heart.
There were multiple moments that had me laughing out loud and grinning like a blushing schoolgirl. Dean eating an ice cream? If you know, you know.
The only reason this wasn't a perfect read for me was the chapter length. Some of the chapters felt unusually long for a cosy romance, and occasionally I found myself needing a break before diving back in.
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Solstice Springs and I'm already looking forward to returning. August 2026 can't come soon enough—I can't wait to see what happens next in this charming series.
Favourite quote:
"I'm going to ask the coven to put a spell on your father so that his d!ck falls off."
Thank you to Joss Wood, HarperCollins UK, and Netgalley for the privilege of reading this book. All opinions are my own.