If you're a fan of stories about second chances or ones that confirm that true love conquers all, then The Rewind is for you. Ten years after a volatile breakup the day of their college graduation (during which neither has talked to the other), Frankie and Ezra are forced to come face to face at a mutual friend's wedding. However, the morning of the wedding, they wake up in their old college dorm room bed with wedding rings on their fingers. The rest of the book sees Frankie and Ezra retracing their steps of the night before to solve the mystery of what happened the night before-- are they really married? Did they sleep together? As the clock ticks down until the ceremony, Ezra and Frankie have just a few hours to rehash the evening, as well as their relationship and the ten years in between.

I wanted to like this one more than I did. I mean it was okay, but a little slow even though it took place all in one night. I wish it was told with flashbacks in different chapters. With everything grouped together it made the past and the present jumble together at times. Also Frankie was not very likable for most of the book. In the end it was just okay for me.

Frankie and Ezra broke up at the end of college with a promise to never speak to each other again. In fact, they have spent the last ten years despising each other. When they run into each other at a friends wedding rehearsal, the two are working hard to avoid each other. Unfortunately they wake up sharing a bed in Ezra’s old dorm room, neither can remember a thing, and both have a ring on their finger. The two have until the wedding starts to figure out what the heck happened last night.

I love a second chance romance, and the “what happened last night” aspect made this one even better! I found myself needing to keep reading because I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Maybe it’s just my covid brain, but at first I kept trying to figure out if they had somehow gone back in time, or if this was present day. Obviously I figured that part out, but I loved the revisiting old haunts and the emotions that brought up for both Frankie and Ezra. I certainly wanted to smack Ezra a few times for letting everyone else control his life, and dang did I really dislike Mimi. I don’t want to give any spoilers but I was beyond happy with the way this one ended!

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This is a charming read about love and second chances. I loved the main characters, Frankie and Ezra. As the story unfolds, you’ll learn more about their past, and the night before. The ending was a little bit predicable. Overall, this was a fun and quick read.

Thank you to Berkley and NetGalley for my gifted e-copy!

Charming book about a couple of former college sweethearts wake up with wedding rings and no memory of getting them. A very charming romcom as the two figure out the past and the present

Ezra and Frankie were college sweethearts who haven’t spoken since their relationship came to an abrupt end on graduation day, 10 years ago. Now they are back on campus for the wedding of old friends and somehow wake up together in a dorm room with no memory of how they got there.

This fast-paced story is told in alternating points of view and points in time as Ezra and Frankie work to remember the events of the previous night and also manage to work through the events of their break-up that they’ve both been bitter about for the past decade.

The Rewind is a fun and nostalgic look at first love and second chances. I wasn’t ready for the book to end!

This book was an absolute joy to read. It is a total trip down memory lane that made me very teary and nostalgic thinking about my college days. I loved the setting, the storyline, and the characters. I didn’t want it to end.

Two former college lovers are thrown back together, ready to celebrate their friends’ wedding on New Year’s Eve 1999. After spending ten years not speaking to each other and thinking they have moved on with their lives, they dread seeing each other. On the morning of New Year’s Eve, they wake up together and have no memory of the night before. This book is about them retracing their steps and figuring out what happened.
I seem to be in the minority, but I didn’t enjoy this book as much as others. The two main characters were rather irritating; even though they thought they’d moved on with their lives, they still carried so much emotional baggage.

Also, the book just dragged on for me as they dissected and reviewed every step they took. I get that they didn’t remember what happened the night before, but it just seemed to take forever to get through it. I love contemporary romance and I love general fiction. However, I couldn’t quite figure out which one this book was trying to be.

Perhaps I was just not in the right frame of mind to fully appreciate this book and I am glad to see that so many others enjoyed it.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book sounded great, it had amazing reviews on Goodreads by some of my favorite Authors. I picked this one up and read it while suffering through Covid. Was a great distraction. Loved the back and forth, loved the ending, and really enjoyed the narration.

It was a bit confusing, but it was good. It was a journey of finding out who and what you want out of life and what love really means. I enjoyed the ending.

This book was overtly complicated, and not in an enjoyable way. I was into the story itself, despite the fact that it's a knock-off of The Hangover, but even I couldn't finish it. It went back and forth so many times that I had trouble discerning which couple we were reading about: 15 years ago or 1999?

The Rewind has a great love story wrapped up in a fun dose of nostalgia. If you had a chance to reconcile with your college boyfriend, would you? What if you woke up in bed with him at your reunion with no memory of what happened the night before? Highly recommend.

I really was skeptical of the premise of this story, but it was very well-written and well-executed. I have definitely become a fan of Allison Winn Scotch after reading The Rewind. She's got some serious skill to pull off that plot so well. I already have a mental list of all the patrons I can recommend this to, so, needless to say, I'll be buying a few copies for the library!

A fun, sharply written, and emotionally satisfying romance about a couple that gets thrown together at a wedding 10 years after their breakup. They're forced to relitigate their relationship while simultaneously piecing together the hazy events of a drunken night at the rehearsal dinner. A compelling mystery structure (think The Hangover) crossed with an emotionally acute depiction of a failed relationship and why, exactly it didn't work - but maybe still could.

I've been a fan of Allison Winn Scotch's for years and her books keep getting better!

The concept behind The Rewind is a great one but it would've been very easy to mess up. The dual narrators, plus a "wait, did I accidentally marry this person that I used to love and now really dislike?" is a hard thing to pull off.

Not only does she do it seemingly effortlessly, she also makes me root for both Frankie and Ezra. This is going to be one of my favorite books from this year.

Highly recommended.

This book is a very introspective rom-com with a ton of character growth spanning a decade. I liked that it really made me think about relationships (past and present) in my own life. There is some humour woven throughout as the two main characters - who had dated years earlier and had an emotional breakup - try to recall the events of a drunken evening that led them to be found in the same bed (fully clothed) with wedding rings on - all before they attend the wedding of a couple college friends. They walk down memory lane - visiting their old haunts at their alma mater examining their past relationship and the roles they played in its destruction. I really enjoyed this story and would definitely recommend it to rom-com fans!

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for the advanced electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley, Berkeley and Allison Winn Scott for the arc of The Rewind. Is your college love the one that got away or a thankful past relationship or a combo? In this book, Frankie and Ezra dated in college, but haven’t talked since college and 10 years later they are heading back to that same school for a friends wedding in their friends group. It turns in to a fun story about what happened last night. I really enjoyed this book and it had be reminiscing of college and my friend group.

The cover of this novel enticed me right away and I've been a fan of Allison Winn Scotch ever since I read Time of My Life. She has a knack for writing about the nuances of relationships and really getting into her characters' minds.

I will admit that I thought this novel was going to be cliché, as I am not a fan of couples getting back together after they've broken up. (I blame Rachel and Ross for this one, but I will make an exception for Betty and Jughead if that somehow happens.) However, I was rooting for Ezra and Frankie to make things right again.

The story is like The Hangover, but for a couple that has been estranged for ten years. It is also way better than the aforementioned film. It takes place at the turn of the twenty-first century and has a lot of eighties and nineties nostalgia as a result. I really enjoyed this novel and getting to know Frankie and Ezra as individuals and as a couple in the past. Allison's great use of detail really brought the story to life. The descriptions of winter were a nice relief from the summer heat in my neck of the woods. The story unraveled the past over time so just when you think you know exactly what happened, there are more answers and surprises to be found. The same is true for everything that happened during their "blackout" period. There were also lots of interesting characters and conflicts throughout.

Overall, this was a fun story worth checking out later this year!

Movie casting suggestions:
Frankie: Maggie Grace
Ezra: Andrew Garfield
Mimi: Sarah Power
Gregory: Dan Amboyer
Laila: Torrey DiVitto
Joni: Mikey Madison
Zoe: Juliette Angelo

Frankie and Ezra met in college in the late 80s and had an incandescent love story. It all blew up right before graduation, and they went their separate ways - Frankie to music moguldom in LA, and Ezra to law school in NYC. 10 years later, they're back at their alma mater for a Y2K wedding. If they still hate each other, why do they wake up wearing wedding bands.

I enjoyed the writing, and liked most of the minor characters. I did not love either of the main characters. Frankie is making it in a male-dominated profession by being tough. But she's like a hard-edged Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and I just didn't like her. Ezra is a little too Beta Male (but, now with money) and just too undemanding and nice.

This is the first book by this author I have read. Even though I didn't particularly like either MC, the writing and storyline drew me in.