Repeat by Kylie Scott
Pages: 304
Publish date: April 7th 2019
Publisher: –
ASIN: B07KWCJ9S6
Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU
When a vicious attack leaves 25-year-old Clementine Johns with no memory, she’s forced to start over. Now she has to figure out who she was and why she made the choices she did – which includes leaving the supposed love of her life, tattoo artist Ed Larsen, only a month before.
Ed can hardly believe it when his ex shows up at his tattoo parlour with no memory of their past, asking about the breakup that nearly destroyed him. The last thing he needs is more heartache, but he can’t seem to let her go again. Should they walk away for good, or does their love deserve a repeat performance?
Repeat:
I received an e-arc of Repeat by Kylie Scott from InkSlinger PR ink exchange for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve slowly been making my way through Kylie Scott books – and I’ve really enjoyed all that I’ve read. So when I heard that she was bringing out a new book that also included a tattooist artist as a love interest – I knew that I needed it. Repeat first came out as an audible audiobook in January, but now you can get the ebook.
Repeat follows protagonist Clementine after she tries to put her life together after an attack leaves her with no memory of her life before. She can do the basics of life but remember anything about her life isn’t going to come easy. She doesn’t know who she is or who she was. So when she finds out the tattooist artist who did her tattoos she knows where to start. But then things become way more complicated. She used to date Ed, and she nor Ed know why she left him. Now she has more to figure out, but could someone still be out there to get her?
Repeat was a really interesting read. I didn’t really know what to expect when going in. While the theme of a character losing their memory is and has been very common, it’s done in a different way here. Kylie Scott has managed to use a common trope, especially in romance and make it her own.
Clementine was a really interesting protagonist. I really wanted to love her, but there was something that made me hold back – and I don’t think that this is a bad thing. Clementine doesn’t remember anything about her life before she was attacked. It was such an interesting concept that Kylie Scott utilised here. Clem knows nothing about her life before, so the reader gets to see her trying to put the pieces back together. It was really interesting seeing Clem find out about her life from other people, but I also loved that she didn’t take everything on board. She found that this was the time to change who she is, and she becomes who she felt she needed to me.
I wasn’t a massive fan of Ed at first, he didn’t really want anything to do with Clem and I understood why. But it was also very hard to read. He was very standoffish and sometimes he came off as someone who didn’t care. But that isn’t the case. The reader can see that Ed cares about Clem a whole a lot, and even though she really hurt him, he knows she needs help right now. And as Repeat went on, I grew to like Ed more and more. His love for Clem really shined through and I really wanted him to be happy.
Kylie Scott has a knack of writing both male and female characters that and interesting, but also have many sides to them. They all have their faults and there was nothing different in Repeat. Both Clementine and Ed have their up’s and downs and that is what made reading about them more real. The reader is able to see that they both care about one another, but is that what’s hurting them the most?
The romance in Repeat was really interesting. Ed and Clem have a lot of history, but Clem doesn’t remember any of it. Including why she broke up with him, and how it tore them both apart. I also really liked that the reader was as much in the dark as Clem. So we were finding out everything about Ed and Clem together, with her. It was like they were falling in love again. The other week I talked about my favourite romance tropes, and Repeat explores that of a second chance romance. And I thought it was done really well here. I did feel that at times it moved a little too fast, but it wasn’t a massive issue for me.
Overall, I really enjoyed Repeat. It’s a second chance romance that is gritty, hard to read at times, but also put a smile on my face. Clemintine and Ed are really interesting characters that were perfect for each other, without being perfect themselves. Kylie Scott knows how to write a good romance and she has done it again with Repeat. It’s addicting, sexy and just oh so good. If you are looking for a romance that is a little different than this is for you.
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