Rewind It Back by Liz Tomforde | (Windy City, #5)

July 25, 2025

“I pick a song when something cool or important happens so I can remember it. Then when I want to relive a moment, I rewind it back and start the song from the beginning.” – Hallie Hart, Rewind It Back by Liz Tomforde.

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Goodreads : 4.01 stars, 26,969 ratings, 4,161 reviews

Format : 496 pages, Paperback

Published : May 27, 2025

Genres : Dark Romance, Sports Romance, Enemies To Lovers, Sports, Hockey College, Contemporary

Tropes : Second chance romance, forced proximity, childhood friends to lovers, grumpy x sunshine.

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About Rewind It Back by Liz Tomforde / Summary

Rewind it back is the 6th and final book in the windy city series. Each book followed a group of friends.

This one follows Hallie Hart and Rio Deluca. Who were childhood neighbors turned best friends turned teenage lovers but for some reason they grew apart. six year no contact and The last thing Hallie wanted when she moved to Chicago to take the dream interior design internship is to be living next door to her first love, pro hockey player Rio DeLuca.

Fate has tossed the two together when Hallie is sent to do the renovation of his house which forces them to live close and brings out the wounds. Whereas Hallie wants everything above board, Rio has made clear that she is the one that got away and this time he is not going to lose her.

Told in two POVs, Rewind It Back is a second-chance, childhood-to-lovers romance with emotional tension and sweet nostalgia and combining with slow burn chemistry, the perfect ending to the adorable Windy City series.

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My Review on Rewind It Back by Liz Tomforde + Favorite Quotes (Spoiler Free)

“Oh, hey!” Wren smacks my arm. “How’d the date go?”
And then there’s that. The reminder that I’ve been in Chicago for six years, and there’s a good chance my person isn’t here.”

I am still processing the book. I have so much to write about this book that I can not even gather my words to express how much I loved this book. I still can not decide what I should rank for this book but it definitely 5 stars like the other books in the series, maybe infinity for being this good. And I need some time to write the entire review after a reread.

But one of the best things I absolutely LOVED how perfectly the series wrapped with this book. Like from the beginning of the book there were so many scenes of them together. And the ending felt like the perfect goodbye hug.

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“Here’s to the 10 characters, 5 couples, 3 teams, 2 sets of siblings, and 1 amazing friend group that changed my life. This one is dedicated to you, the readers. Thank you for hanging out in Chicago with me.”

Thank you Liz for writing about them. Each of the characters felt so real. Their stories was equally flawed and perfect. From seeing Stevie loving herself and then to love the real zander only he allowed to show her to Indy being hopeless yet welcomed to love Ryan when he refused to open up to the Rhodes brothers getting their own story after their traumatic childhood and lastly to soulmates Hallie and Rio. Rio was everyone’s favorite, everyone who has read all the previous books has been anticipating his book.

No one thought it could be like this. Also Hallie has not been here from the first book but after reading this book it felt like she was always here. I am so happy that these characters have gotten so close over the years and each and every book it just gotten better. In rewinding it back they had fully become a family. And this was truly one of the best books with found family tropes

I know these characters will have cameos in future Liz Tomford books and counting on it…