About the Book
A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author 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
This book brought in so many of my favorite elements – following a writer, a bookish romance, and oh yes … a lot of ghosts. A good magical realism storyline always catches my interest, so when I saw this review request in my inbox, I definitely wanted to add it to my reading pile. While one might think a book surrounding a family that owns a funeral home – and a dead editor to boot – would be sad, dark and well, a downer, The Dead Romantics is anything but. The message around celebrating lives, the humor that skips from page to page, and the cast of quirky characters all made for a giggly and even laugh out loud read. While it was pretty predictable from the start what was going to happen, it was still a treat to watch the characters get to the end and I liked the little twist that we had to keep me on my toes until the last page. This was charming, insightful, and refreshingly modern rom com that I would recommend for your fall reading list!
4.5 stars
