Sounds Like Love, Ashley Poston
Sounds Like Love, Ashley Poston
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Sounds Like Love

Bestseller

Author: Ashley Poston

Narrator: Patti Murin, Ashley Poston

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/17/2025


Synopsis

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ∙ A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.

As featured in The New York Times ∙ People ∙ The Washington Post ∙ USA Today ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Marie Claire ∙ E! News ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Woman's World ∙ theSkimm ∙ Brit + Co ∙ Yahoo! Life ∙ She Reads ∙ and more!

Joni Lark has a secret. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA, and yet she can’t write. There’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.

When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark inspiration. But when Joni gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is hiding something, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.

How can Joni write when her world is leaving her behind?

Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with an emptiness of his own.

Surely, he’s a figment of Joni’s overworked imagination.

Then a very real man shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s arrogant and guarded—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan for breaking their inconvenient telepathic connection: finish the song haunting them both and hope they don’t risk their hearts—or their secrets—in the process.

Because that melody, the one drawing them together . . . what if it’s there for a reason?

About Ashley Poston

Ashley Poston is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who believes every story deserves a little bit of magic-even if it's tucked inside an ordinary day. Known for beloved novels like The Dead Romantics and The Seven Year Slip, she blends romance, humor, and heart into tales that feel both enchanting and real. Raised in a small Southern town where books were her favorite escape, Ashley grew up to turn her daydreams into worlds that readers can call home. When she's not writing, she's likely binge-watching old sci-fi shows, collecting too many mugs, or spending time with her very opinionated cats. She lives in South Carolina, where the tea is sweet and the stories never stop flowing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ellen on March 18, 2025

4.5⭐️ thank you to berkley for providing this arc!! this was so so wonderful - i ended up finishing this in literally one sitting last night and i haven't stopped thinking about it since. this is so quintessential ashley poston at her best; such a gorgeous romance in a really homey and cosy setting wi......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 19, 2025

Some classic rom-coms have unforgettable lines like, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Well, I have one for Ashley Poston’s books: “I’ll never give them less than five gazillion stars.” Her stories speak directly to my soul! And this book? Pure magic. The story follows two characters, each grappling wi......more

Goodreads review by Cara on May 22, 2025

BERKLEY, I FREAKING LOVE YOU❤❤!!!!!!! REVIEW TO COME💗🌈!!!!!!!! ASHLEY THIS WAS YOUR BEST BOOK YET😭😍😭😍!!!!!!!......more

Goodreads review by nika.ex.libris on March 19, 2025

A HUGE THANK YOU to the author and Berkley Pub for the gifted ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts! 💗 I don’t know what to say... It’s as if all my words were taken away; I wanted to convey the thoughts and feelings just like the main characters. I could write about the style, the plot, the character......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 25, 2025

Ashley mixes romance and magical realism so well that I don’t think there is a story she can’t tell but damn everytime get gets me in the heart and I shed a tear or two......more


Quotes

“Poston has a knack for adding a dash of fantasy to her charming, poignant love stories.”—The Washington Post

Sounds Like Love gives new meaning to what it means to make a ‘connection’ with someone. The whimsy and what-ifs of Ashley Poston’s novels have made her a must-buy for me!”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name

"Ashley Poston charms once again with Sounds Like Love. Deeply romantic and delightfully whimsical, every page had me humming along. This story will be on repeat in my head for a while.” —B.K. Borison, New York Times bestselling author of First Time Caller

"I didn’t think it was possible to love Ashley Poston’s books any more than I already did, but Sounds Like Love is my new favorite. Romantic, deeply thoughtful, and exquisitely written, this one absolutely wrecked me."—Annabel Monaghan, USA Today bestselling author of Summer Romance

“This musical story reads like a ballad.”—NPR

“This read is fun and lighthearted, and I have a feeling it's one I'll be recommending for a long time.”PureWow

"[An] imaginative and deeply moving romance."Shelf Awareness

"Knowing Ashley Poston and her writing, she'll have you swooning by chapter 2."Culturess

"[A] wonderfully evocative summer romance, imbued with all the effervescent feelings of long, hot days in a beachy tourist town. Pack this one, and maybe a nostalgic playlist, in your beach bag for a vacation this summer. You won't regret it."BookReporter

"If you're a sucker for a big-city-girl-returns-to-save-the-family-business story with a magical, musical twist, Ashley Poston's latest should be your summer read . . . It's funny, romantic, a little mystical."The Nod Mag

"This moving romance will delight Poston’s fans and should earn her plenty of new ones."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Poston (A Novel Love Story) explores grief and regret while inspiring hope in love with poetic banter and the comfort of a close-knit, eccentric, and humorous family . . . Poston writes another lyrical and magical tale set in a cozy beach town that will make readers want to savor reading it while sitting on the sand themselves. Hand to those who also enjoy B.K. Borison and Tarah DeWitt."Library Journal

"Poston is comfortingly adept at creating complex characters who are kind, and surrounding them with realistic friends and family, while making the world of music writing, a small coastal town, and its music venue feel real."—Booklist