The Rewind
Book Feature - The Rewind by Allison Winn Scotch
HBL Note: I first featured New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch along with her previous novel, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing. Allison is primarily known for her women’s fiction, which has been featured in Glamour, Hello!, US Weekly, Parade, Star, Shondaland and more. But THE REWIND is a bit of a pivot for Allison into the romance genre a la Josie Silver and Rebecca Serle. Plus it is giving me Emily Giffin vibes with the 90s throwback - not quite old enough to be historical fiction but definitely old enough to give us all those warm nostalgic feelings for a bygone era. Scroll down to read more about what happens when two exes wake up in bed together with rings on their fingers.
“A charming love story rich with nineties nostalgia, The Rewind is Allison Winn Scotch’s best book yet.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin
From the publisher:
When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. Frankie’s on the rise as a music manager for the hottest bands of the late ’90s, and Ezra’s ready to propose to his girlfriend after the wedding. Everything is going to plan—they just have to avoid the chasm of emotions brought up when they inevitably come face to face.
But when they wake up in bed next to each other the following morning with Ezra’s grandmother’s diamond on Frankie’s finger, they have zero memory of how they got there—or about any of the events that transpired the night before. Now Frankie and Ezra have to put aside old grievances in order to figure out what happened, what didn’t happen...and to ask themselves the most troubling question of all: what if they both got it wrong the first time around?