Now’s your chance to start your summer road trip (even if it’s just by being submerged in a hot summer read) — and win great prizes.  Join our 2013 Summer Reading Challenge!  Are you up for the challenge?  Make this your summer reading list, read each book, share your reviews, get to know the authors and enter to win weekly prizes.  The challenge kicks off today and will go through mid-August. Join the event on Facebook for more information!

Keep an eye out during the challenge for bonus picks to earn more points towards the prizes. The more you read and the more you share, the more you win.  Happy reading!

Without further adieu here is stop #1 on our list of stops in this summer’s challenge. The Repeat Year by Andrea Lochen.

More about The Repeat Year:

Setting:  Madison is a vibrant capital city and home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus (go Badgers!). We’ll make a pit stop at scenic Lake Mendota for a bite to eat before checking out the shops and museums along State Street.

Plot: Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over — but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong …

After a year of hardships including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend Phil, the prospect of her mother’s remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the hospital, Olive is ready to start fresh. But when she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend’s bed on New Year’s Day 2011—a day she has already lived—Olive’s world is turned upside down.

Here’s what people are saying about The Repeat Year:

• “I think it was fun to read and very different from a regular relationship in most books. I liked the writing style of Andrea, so I would read another story by her. I would recommend this to anyone.”— Ope’s Opinions
• “This was a great page turner, that although had quite a few pages, I read it in two sittings!  I would recommend this to readers who love a book that makes you reflect on your life, it would be a read right before a new year were to begin!”—Kritters Ramblings
• “Lochen has written an entertaining and thought provoking novel. The characters are realistic and their reactions to events are definitely believable.”—BookNAround