bookish_kristina 's review for:

Rewriting the Stars by Claire Kingsley

3.0

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Whew, finally finished! This one took me forever to get into, really slow start with way too many other story lines! However, the epilogue was very satisfying and I really loved Levi, who was a strong, flawed yet perfect hero. It hurts me to rate this only 3 stars as I waited with baited breath for it to be released but I struggled too much to connect and I just can’t boost it up. C.K. was just trying too hard with this one. So many things pulling away my focus; the over-arching storyline of the series - the feud and the Montgomery treasure- which were two subplots entwined, the love story of Annika and Levi, and the set up for her new series about the Haven brothers. It was just too much for one book to contain and I was often pulled out of the love story to go treasure hunting, or deal with feud drama, or discover more about Annika’s girlfriends and her brothers - obviously the source of C.K.s next few books- it was just overwhelming. All of these other storylines detracted and distracted from the love story that struggled to captivate me and was very light on details. If more time had been spent building Levi and Annika’s story we could have had more then just years of texting, perhaps some moments between them in high school, an encounter when she arrived back in town with her son, some more detail on their time together. Instead it was just text messages and then a closet kiss and wham ‘I love you, let’s get married’. Give me a little more build up please. The feud and town mystery just never engaged me in any of the previous books and then were wrapped up in a way that was too OTT and not believable (I won’t get into spoilers). It was just very hard to believe how convenient it all ended up. Anyway, I would have liked this book better if the love story was the centre and all the rest was toned down significantly. That being said, I’m hot for the Haven boys books, even though I couldn’t keep them all straight.