The Backtrack, Erin La Rosa
The Backtrack, Erin La Rosa
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The Backtrack

Author: Erin La Rosa

Narrator: Mela Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Life, rewound…

Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up the house.

The 2000s nostalgia from Sam’s old bedroom hits immediately: Fall Out Boy posters, drawers of roll-on body glitter and even her favorite CD player with a mixtape from her best friend, Damon Rocha. Damon was always a safe place and Sam often wonders what if her teenage self admitted her feelings for him back then…

Mysteriously, the CD player still works all these years later. And somehow it has the power to show Sam an alternate version of her life.

Song by song, Sam receives flashbacks from her past—senior prom, graduation, leaving home. But the memories aren’t as she remembers them; they show what could have been. Suddenly, Sam knows exactly what would have happened if she’d taken a chance with Damon—and she can’t help feeling she made a terrible mistake leaving Tybee all those years ago.

"A perfectly in-tune love story that will be playing on repeat in my mind for a very long time." —Lauren Kung Jessen, author of Red String Theory and Lunar Love
"La Rosa shines at genuinely funny and feminist romantic tales, and I'll read every single one of them." —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of For Her Consideration

FOR FANS OF:Millennial nostalgiaMagical realismFriends to loversDual timelineSecond chancesFound familyBeachy small town

About Erin La Rosa

ERIN LA ROSA is the author of For Butter or Worse, and on her way to writing romance, she’s also published two humorous nonfiction books, Womanskills and The Big Redhead Book. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four daughters (two humans, two felines). Find her on Twitter and Instagram @erinlarosalit and on TikTok @erinlarosawrites.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on June 20, 2024

I absolutely loved this story! In a small village, a long-ago romance between best friends became lovers is given a second chance, in addition with a dash of magical time travel. Sam returns home after a long absence to help her grandmother Pearl with housecleaning before she moves into a retirement......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on June 10, 2024

Did you have Paramore, Blink 182 and Panic at the Disco on repeat in high school? Was Twilight you're whole personality in 2008? Did you dye your hair an outrageous color at least once? If this is you, "The Backtrack" by Erin La Rosa needs to be your next read!!! Thank you Canary Street Press and Erin......more

Goodreads review by Abi (hiatus) on April 07, 2024

3🌟 .5/5🌶️ Even though it was boring I binged the last 50% of this. ෆPlot Sam is going back to her home town to basically take care of her grandmother and help her out. While she's there she runs into her childhood best friend/crush, Damon. While she's there she discovers a CD player full of songs that......more

3.5 stars What a fun nostalgic read. If emo was not a phase for you either, you definitely need to give this romance a try - there's so many great nostalgic song and band references I need a playlist from the book asap. Great music aside, the story is simple but effective. I liked exploring the what......more

Goodreads review by Nadine on June 07, 2024

The Backtrack sounded like the perfect romance novel for me: a 2000s emo nostalgia friends-to-lovers romance. Unfortunately, there was little to no chemistry between the main characters and the story itself left much to be desired. The Backtrack follows Sam as she returns home for the first time to h......more