Monday, February 17, 2020

Love in Rewind: a bad romance with good 80s music references


Love in Rewind by Tali Alexander is the first book in the Audio Fools series. Emily Bruel has the life of dreams. At 29, she has two beautiful kids with her gorgeous and successful husband, Louis Bruel in a luxurious Upper East Side townhouse. There, she has a live-in nanny, a housekeeper, a cook and other perks that make her life a breeze. Louis has built a real estate development firm to a billion-dollar success in less than 15 years. Together, their ten-year marriage seems to be the stuff of fairy tales. But something is off. Emily feels Louis becoming distant and secretive. She is forced to search for the truth among the silence and lies. Will the truth shatter any hopes of rekindling their love and marriage? Can their remember their love for each other through the help of their favorite songs?


I am a sucker for a good romance novel but from the very beginning, Love in Rewind was not the book I thought it was. It is a marriage in peril as the opening chapter finds Emily waking up from a horrible dream and begs her husband to comfort her, who turns her away. The second chapter finds her reminiscing about the day she met Louis. She was 18, he was almost 30 and had the eye of every woman in the room. I didn’t mind the age difference between the two characters as I know a few very loving and committed couples with such an age difference. However, Louis constantly refers to Emily as “little girl” while they have their romantic and sexual encounters is creepy. I loved the idea of song references to their love story as my husband and I love quoting songs to each other, but it wasn’t enough for me to like this story. I do not recommend Love in Rewind.

Love in Rewind
is available in paperback, eBook and audiobook

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