Rewrite our Story by Kat Singleton

Cade Jennings was always there for me when I needed him—until he wasn’t.

I’d spent my entire life loving my best friend’s older brother. Every single one of my birthday wishes was spent hoping Cade would finally notice me.

And then one day, he did.

But not all love stories have happy endings.

It’s been years since I left the small town of Sutten Mountain devastated and heartbroken. I’d used the pain to fuel a bestselling novel that solidified I’d never have to return.

Until tragedy struck, forcing me to face the man who shattered my heart.

I thought I’d be strong enough to see him again. I didn’t expect the angry, broken man staring back at me.

But the more time we spend around each other, the more I see glimpses of the man I fell in love with. His touch still owns me. His kiss still brands me. And even after all this time, the feelings I have for him still consume me.

Cade and I are unfinished business, and this time, he’s not letting me leave until we rewrite our story

My Review

This is another book I read for bingo on Instagram. I loved finding some new-to-me authors from this challenge.

By looking at the index, I can tell this story has a lot of jumps back in time, but I’m excited to read it anyway. I love the playlist at the beginning of the story.

Marigold starts off the story as a child who has just lost her mother and is grieving. She finds comfort in her best friend’s brother as he helps to comfort her in her time of need.

Cade is sweet, even as a child, a few years older than the marigold, but caring and wonderful to her in her time of need. They have a special connection. I can already tell this book will probably rip my heart out.

We do time jump a lot, like every chapter, back and forth. Marigold is now a writer, twenty-four years old, and still has ties to her best friend, Pippa, and Cade, who has a whole grumpy thing going on now. But their interaction are pleasantly sweet.

They are dealing with the death of a loved one in this book. There are a lot of story parts of grief represented.  There is some drama to unpack with each interaction now, as they are older and have a difficult history.

I love that we get both characters’ pov. This book has an extremely complicated relationship or something between Cade and Mari. With grief, friendship, proximity, and loss being the basis of their need for each other, it really is heartbreaking to watch these two navigate friendship, love, and a more recent grief. They grieve for what was, what could be, and those they don’t have in their lives anymore, but will they ever find happiness?

“I’d do anything to help heal his heart. Even if it means breaking mine again in the process.” – Marigold

They are so hot and cold, a constant whiplash between letting their feelings in and denying them. Neither one will embrace that their heart belongs to the other. The intimacy of the past is sizzling hot, but will it vary in their future?

Their tension erupts in sizzling intimacy, but I had the same darker romance to it as well, despite the pretty cover of the book. Marigold has some decisions to make now.

This book gets smutty as they experience it for the first time together, including first love. The scenes are well described and very well written. Amidst the happiness of old time is also a last act breakup up but it isn’t their current future, or are they doomed to repeat it? I don’t love the back and forth in this book, the past being told in one story and the current in between.

This story is one of love, heartbreak, grief, and happiness with a lot of smutty scenes in between, but the love story in the pages is epic. It is all-consuming and will be heart-wrenching as well. Will they ever get their HEA?

I love the ending of the book, and this book could totally be a movie. Cade and Marigold finally get the HEA. The symbolism in the book is something else, but I enjoyed it.

This book is definitely one to read and quite the love story with many bumps and straight-up drama in the road, but oh so enjoyable at the end. This author was recommended to me by an Instagram friend, and I had to try out one of her stories. I lie. The country charm in the setting mixed with the Colorado mountains and found family. The grief was not as enjoyable to read about, and the heart-wrenching moments almost had me in tears. But the second half, where things finally are in the present, makes up for all the past jumps. Miscommunication, first love, and of course, the country romance were huge in the story, but the author truly set this one apart.

If you would like to read Rewrite Our Story by Kat Singleton, you can find this book on Amazon. As an Amazon Assocaite, I earn on qualifying purchases.

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