Book Blurb:
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston: Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead.
When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.
For ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it. Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is.
Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.
My Review: 4 stars
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston was a delightful and engaging story that was unique and fun to read. You can be certain that I’ve never read a book that had a romance between a ghost and a live person before.
As quirky and unusual as this premise seems, Poston did a phenomenal job of making the story ring true. I was very intrigued by the main character’s ability to talk to ghosts and listen to their stories. We all know that being heard can bring closure and peace.
There was a lot of wordplay with Florence’s job as a ghost writer, being an undertaker’s daughter and her supernatural skill of communicating with spirits. I very much enjoyed her familial relationships, her break the rules attitude and her multitude of references to both past and current romance authors.
This was a great book to read at the beach…light and different.
Quotes I liked:
Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.”
“Would’ve, should’ve, could’ve. Hindsight is such a bitch.”
