It doesn’t matter that things between them technically fell apart over spring break, and they haven’t spoken since – until Dixie arrives and realizes Sawyer has moved on (a fact made very apparent when she sees him kissing, um, someone else).
Luckily, Dixie and her family have each been gifted with a Rewind. All Dixie has to do is go back and redo the moment she thinks doomed hers and Sawyer’s relationship before it even began.
But when family secrets start pouring out, Dixie’s not so sure even her Rewind will be enough to save what she and Sawyer had. Is the damage already done, or can she turn back the clock and give them one more chance? (Pub Date: Jun 17 2025)
3.5 rounded up to 4.
Dixie keeps her lives separate. The one she lives with her parents in New York, and the one she gets to have every summer with her aunt, in the town where they used to live, where she gets to watch movies, have friends, and even a crush. Afraid of how those two would crash, she lost the big chance of concretizing those feelings for Sawyer, and now she's going to use her family's secret ability: rewind. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance and she's got four days to make sure undoing all those experiences is really what she wants.
The lore about their family and the rewind experiences were fun, but I'll be honest, it shouldn't be the trope that leads you here. Yes, you do get to see how it happens, hear many stories of what went right and what wrong, even if Dixie's is saved for the climax and most of the story is in those four days she has to decide if she'll really go for it. In other words, this isn't a story about magical realism, but about regret.
Although I'm not a big fan of Dixie, and some of the excuses for what she's done felt shallow, so they didn't help it, I didn't really felt anything negative about either. Also, this story is written so you get to know the characters better as you read. Yes, most stories are like that, but this one has that as a trademark, I'd say. This made so the development never went where you expected. And I really liked being surprised. I guess you could call them plot twists, but this fun in reading didn't came from how marvelous de plot twists were but from the doors of possibilities they opened. I must also add they don't derail from the main point. In the end it is a second-chance romance. It just doesn't follow the path that's open for it in the beginning.
It's a fun book. There was a point around the second quarter I thought it started dragging, but it soon picks up speed again and I ended up reading the last half in one sitting (this has become super rare for me). I can't wait for Molly Morris's next works!
Honest review based on an ARC provided by Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Rating: 4 out of 5.
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