The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick by Ashley Poston on June 28, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Paranormal / General, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women
Pages: 368
Format: Audiobook, Paperback
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“I began to realize that love wasn’t dead, but it wasn’t forever, either. It was something in between, a moment in time where two people existed at the exact same moment in the exact same place in the universe.”
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.
Well, from the start I am not the biggest Ashley Poston fan. I have read a few of her books, but nothing that I’ve really enjoyed, so this one was no different. The first 60% felt like a whole lot of nothing. I was honestly confused about where the story was going because it didn’t seem to be progressing at all, but the last 40% picked up. I was so conflicted on how a ghost and a human’s relationship would work, but it was very well managed and the situation in which they both met. The things that were often said were cheesy at the times but the story itself was cute. Also the slow burn in this one burned till the very end so the frustration was through the roof for me.
I rated this novel 3.5 stars. This book is enjoyable with one of the most interesting premises. However, the romance did not win me as much as I hoped for. It feels like the whole plot shifted more on the funeral and the philosophy behind death, which is still pretty cool. While this book is likeable, it does not have the wow factor that makes me wanna rate this five stars.