Dixie Mulligan's family has the unique ability to have one rewind. One chance to have a do over of something important.

Dixie wants to spend hers going back in time to the moment she planned to tell Sawyer, her bestie. At that moment, she had the chance to tell him that she loved him, but she chickened out. This time, she's convinced herself that she won't, but when she uses her rewind, everything isn’t what she remembered and things start to change in all sorts of ways. Many of which, she never anticipated.

Her life has taken a path she can't change so what does she do now?

If you like a bit of romance, mixed with magic and some 'what if', you'll love Rewind to Us.

I received an ARC from the publisher for an honest review.

Mulligan family members can use a “rewind” one in their life, which allows them to go back in time to the recent past and make a change. Dixie stays with her aunt in Cielo Springs over the summer. She works at the movie theater her aunt owns with Sawyer, her best friend. Dixie is thinking about using her rewind because of something that happened (or didn’t happen) between her and Sawyer in Central Park recently.

This book ended in the way I thought it would, but there were a few surprises along the way! I liked the magical realism aspect of it and thought the premise was unique. Time travel itself isn’t unique, but the stipulations and way a rewind is enacted were interesting! However, it definitely dragged on at times. While I loved Sawyer and Dixie’s friendship, I really didn’t see the chemistry between them that made me think it needed to be something more. I really enjoyed our cast of characters and the movie theater setting though!

⏰Magical realism (time travel)
🧡YA romance
👩‍❤️‍👨Friends to lovers
🎬Movies

It took me a while to finish Rewind To Us because the book didn't grip my attention. I wish there were more romance in the book. I will not be reviewing this book on my social media platforms due to the low rating.

I don't typically read young adult contemporaries anymore but surprisingly I really enjoyed this one. I loved Dixie's character, she had me cracking up with some of the things she said. I enjoyed the family drama with surprised me even more but I think the touch of magical realism helped with that. Most of all I loved the romance, well both of them technically. I honestly really wanted a separate book between the other couple that I won't name.

This was a cute book with a fun premise. The idea of a rewind is cool, being able to redo a moment in your life is something a lot of people would love, but the consequences may be different than you anticipate.

How the rewind works is vague, along with how a movie of what might after gets made. This isn't an SFF book where things get into the gritty details, but I would like more information on everything. The middle of the story got a bit confusing with things changing from the rewind and trying to keep track of what happened and what was no longer true.

I also thought the romance was just okay and wish it was more of a background plot and we focused on Dixie's relationship with her parents. It was easy to see where Dixie and Sawyer were heading and I thought the family were the most interesting part.

Enjoyable read and a fun concept.

I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All opinions are my own. Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the copy.

3.75 rounded up. This book was cute with a fun concept but it had a lot going on and it got a little chaotic and messy and repetitive. All in all a fun quick read.

Rewind to Us by Molly Morris
4 stars

Thank you Netgalley and St Martin's Press for the opportunity to read and advanced copy of this book!

I really enjoyed Rewind to Us! The magical realism element was the idea of a single chance to rewind time , and is such a cool concept. It added something special to what could’ve been a typical teen romance. It made me think about how one moment can change everything, and whether we’d actually make better choices if we had the chance to go back.

The emotions felt real, especially the way Dixie handles heartbreak, family drama, and trying to figure things out. I thought the side characters were fantastic, and really added depth to the story.

This book is a great mix of heartfelt and hopeful, and if you like YA stories with some magic and messiness, this one’s definitely worth picking up.

In this fun new YA romance novel, readers follow Dixie Mulligan as she heads out to California from New York for her annual summer vacation. Ready to spend time with her aunt and cousin at the family movie theater, Dixie also has a plan to tell her best friend Sawyer that she’s in love with him. Even though their friendship fell apart over spring break and they haven’t spoken since, Dixie is sure she can use her Rewind to redo the moment and fix her relationship with Sawyer. But when family secrets and Sawyer’s new relationship start to appear, Dixie isn’t sure if her Rewind will be able to fix her relationship with Sawyer because the damage was already done long before then. Unique, interesting, and packed with fun details and great characters, readers will enjoy Dixie’s growth in her relationships with Sawyer and her parents over the course of the novel. Readers will definitely resonate with some of the emotional storylines, and the characters really bring this entertaining and heartwarming book to life. With its great characters, beautiful Californian setting, and fun premise, romance and YA readers alike will enjoy this book and sympathize with Dixie as the novel unfolds.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book from start to finish!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 star

What would you if you were allowed one rewind in life? The opportunity to erase a mistake or a situation with a bad outcome. Would you use it? Dixie’s is about to use her one and only rewind. Her family has been granted rewinds since early history and since she majorly messed up her relationship with her best friend Sawyer, the love of her life, she wants to use hers to fix things. Will it be a mistake to use it? What consequences will be attached to it?

This book was so enjoyable. I usually don’t read YA because college aged characters are hard to relate to and their immaturity gets to me, but I’m so glad I gave this a chance because I ended up liking this one. Dixie was so likable and I adored her. Her struggles were very relatable and real. Sawyer was a sweetie (though a bit clueless at times), and Bunny her cousin, had his own romance budding that was a nice unexpected bonus.

The build up to the rewind had me hooked. The journey getting to the rewind took a bit, but was enjoyable and it kept me reading. I was invested!
Each chapter started with a snippet about the rewind. How it came to be for Dixie’s family and the rules of using it - even the negatives that may come along with enacting it. I looked forward to each chapter start.

This book is a harsh lesson in taking responsibility for your actions, fessing up to your mistakes and excepting the consequences of your actions (including those that come with a rewind). Honestly, the only reason why I’m not giving this 5 stars is toward the end when everything started unfolding the pace was thrown off. We went from an extreme slow burn slowly building up to the rewind, to a fast paced situation with multiple things happening all at once. It got confusing and I had to re-read sections to grasp what was really happening. Even so, it was still great once I wrapped my head around it and figured out what was going on. It definitely has a surprise ending that I didn’t expect. This one is cute if you need a quick easy read with a refreshingly sweet romance with suspense.

Dixie is going to california for her annual vacation. Her plan? To tell Sawyer she is inlove with him. The only problem is that Dixie and Sawyer have not talked since spring break. Another problem? Sawyer has moved on.

No worries though. Dixie’s family was gifted a power of a redo or a rewind so now all Dixie needs to do is to rewind back to the time before Sawyer and her fell apart.

I enjoyed this. Nothing like a YA romance with a small fantasy twist. ❤️ it was an easy and fun read!

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC! 🫶🏻

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this eARC. All opinions are my own.

This was an enjoyable reading experience.

This was such a good story. I've read another one Morris' stories that was also a speculative story and it was just as good. The plot twist in the middle of the story startled the hell out of me. I didn't see it coming at all. I knew that when Dix's mom had her rewind that it was going to impact Dix is some way BUT WHAT HAPPENED WAS WHOLLY UNEXPECTED. Harvey came out of left field but I loved him. He was such a great addition to the story. I really wanted him and Dix to be friends when he was first introduced and I was glad they were! Overall though, I don't really like that Bunny (Benny) used his rewind for Dixon. I feel like she should have had to deal with the consequences and grown from them with Sawyer. I truly don't believe he'd be that mad at her in the end. I think Dixon should've stayed in Cielo Springs for the opening of The Trip so she and Sawyer could make up. I feel like it would've been more impactful if Dixon discovered the tiny versions of themselves on her own and then went to talk to Sawyer about it. Maybe they'd be up in the projector room, arguing about it and then they confess that they've always liked one another. In the future, if Dixon and Sawyer get married, would she tell him about that summer? How the Rewind's changed everything? I feel like he'd be rightly upset over something like that and rethink their whole relationship. That's only if they ended up getting married. Who knows, maybe they wouldn't have lasted in the long run but this was just something I thought about.

Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for the ARC of this novel. The ability to change the past is something we would all like to have but Dixie actually might. She definitely feels very immature at times but does grow as the store moves along and the reveal in the middle to raise the tension was not something I expected at all. Sawyer and Dixie sound and act like teenagers and the conflict keeping them apart works only since they are so young. 3.5 stars.

A Heartfelt Friends-to-Lovers Story That Feels Like Coming Home

Even though I’ve mostly moved on from YA, Rewind to Us made me feel all the nostalgia of my younger reading days. Molly Morris captures the magic of the friends-to-lovers trope perfectly—slow-burn longing, quiet confessions, and that sweet, heart-fluttering tension that never gets old.

This book reminded me why I will always adore this trope, and it pulled me right back into the emotions I loved feeling as a teen reader. It’s funny, tender, and utterly charming—exactly the kind of story that stays with you long after the last page.

Very interesting and intriguing concept...... just with sub-optimal execution. I'm usually already pre-sold on stories that have magical realism elements woven in (especially time travel!) but, while this book did have some cute moments and the characters were well fleshed out, the overall plot honestly got rather repetitive by the halfway point and I found myself putting this down for something else more often than I'd care to admit (or prefer). I will say that the plot twist(s) landed well and were actually pretty surprising in the grand scheme of things, which is why I decided to rate this a little higher for my official review rather than what I had down initially. Ultimately this book was just OK to me— not the greatest or most memorable, but definitely not totally awful either. I think it'll still find its core audience in the YA-demo (which is what it's marketed as), so I'll end this by saying Morris has potential and I'm likely to still check out her future works.

this book was not my favorite and I ended up DNF. it was dragging for me. It just wasn't for me!! but others might like it!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books for the digital copy of this book; I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Content warnings from readers on Storygraph: Moderate: Stalking; Minor: Injury/Injury detail

Sometimes I step out of my comfort zone a little and pick up a book that contains magical realism while not being full-blown fantasy, which is a genre I’ve tried many times but just isn’t my jam. Rewind to Us by Molly Morris blends emotional stakes with a touch of the speculative. While lighthearted, this is also a reflective Young Adult romance that contains a magical realist rewind device.

The focus of the book is on family secrets, which I’m always down for, and a second chance romance with friends to lovers are also some of my favorite tropes. There’s a hopeful tone to the book, and this sun-drenched, low angst novel was just what I needed to pick up my mood.

My only complaint with Rewind to Us is that the resolution doesn’t pack the punch that it had been building towards. Still, it was a very satisfying read and would recommend it.

Definitely reads like a first draft, but this may, I concede, be that I'm aging out of YA. For teens, this will be a fun little romance with some touches of magic.

"Rewind To Us" is an amazing romance that truly captivates the reader. The love story is enchanting, beautifully woven with a magical twist that keeps you on the edge of your seat, wanting more. The characters are believable, and the plot is engaging. I found myself completely immersed in their world, and the unique blend of romance and magic made for a truly unforgettable reading experience.