Laura’s Review of Love in Rewind (Audio Fools, #2) by Tali Alexander

Synopsis

Emily has the life every woman dreams of.

At 29, she has two beautiful kids, a live-in nanny, housekeeper, cook, and every imaginable luxury in the posh Upper East Side townhouse she shares with her drop-dead gorgeous husband, Louis Bruel. His company, Bruel Industries, owns a big chunk of New York City’s most sought-after real estate, and together Emily and Louis embody the perfect hot fairy tale couple for ten happy years of marriage. 

But when Louis mysteriously starts pushing Emily away, becoming distant and secretive, she is forced to search for the truth among the lies, scandal and heartbreak of his past that threaten to shatter her world. What she finds out will test the strength of her love and her vows to the man of her dreams.

Can Emily and Louis rewind far enough back to a time when life was simpler and love was all they needed? Follow their story with the help of some of their favorite songs from the 80’s to discover just how deep and how far love will go. 

What I Loved

      

    The very beginning of this book is so powerful and grips the reader immediately wondering where it all went wrong for Louis and Emily.  After that the story rewinds to the past when Louis and Emily first met and we follow their journey of new love to married couple that eventually develops problems.

          Emily although young and inexperienced has many characteristics that made her relatable making it easy to become engrossed in her story.  Louis immediately comes off as the perfect man, playboy turned one woman man who falls instantly in love with Emily.  There wasn’t much about Louis that wasn’t masculine and a definitely turn on. The chemistry between him and Emily poured from the pages making me addicted to their story. 

Not So Much

          The sentences for me were very fragmented at times, and it kind of made the flow uneven and spotty. Also I felt like the synopsis gives you the crux what this book should be about and it sucks you in, but the majority of the book is about Louis and Emily meeting and falling in love.  I get that their relationship needed to be established and developed in order to show the severity of the changes between them, but it dragged on too long.  I wish we could’ve fast forwarded through the beginning of their relationship and emphasize the drama some more.  There was so much detail about the beginning of their relationship but once they were married everything all of sudden sped up.  I would’ve liked it more if everything was in equal parts rather tons of detail in the beginning and not really a lot towards the end. 

          Also I absolutely love Louis and he is one sexy man, but he was just a little too perfect for me.  It just wasn’t realistic for me to see a millionaire playboy meet a girl one night then commit his life to her the next week.  It was too much too fast and not relatable at all taking me away from the story rather than sucking me in.

To Sum It All Up!

         This was a really sweet story, about a young girl finding her soulmate at a young age and watching them grow as a couple.  I love drama and I love reading about couples struggling through their relationship but ultimately finding each other once again. This story definitely fit into this category and it was a lot of fun to read. 

I think Emily’s pain was palpable at times and at a certain point my heart just broke for her.  Also, I love that we not only got to know the two main characters but their friends and family as well, it just adds to the overall depth of the story.  Another thing I love that the characters were Jewish! This is my first book where the characters in a romance were Jewish and as a Jew from New Jersey it was kind of cool.  I have never read a Tali Alexander book but I would definitely recommend this one and continue to read whatever she has to publish.