Summer Fridays

This emotionally charged You’ve Got Mail retelling is set in New York City during the summer of 1999, with bookended chapters set in the aftermath of 9/11. The story follows Sawyer, a young woman in her twenties working as a publishing assistant who dreams of being a writer. Sawyer is stuck planning her impending wedding to her college boyfriend, Charles, alone, while he spends long hours with his attractive coworker Kendra. When Kendra’s concerned boyfriend, Nick, reaches out to Sawyer to compare notes about their significant others’ activities, the two end up forming a friendship that turns into more as they hang out on Fridays over the summer. The result is two people in relationships with others who are falling in love and having an affair of their own. Readers will easily get invested in Rindell’s (The Two Mrs. Carlyles) latest, which will leave them wondering what the future holds for Nick and Sawyer. While Elizabeth Romanski does an admirable job voicing both main characters, the audio experience might have benefited from the addition of a male narrator. Note that the novel includes infidelity, which audiences might want to know about in advance.