The Dead Romantics A GMA Book Club P..., Ashley Poston
The Dead Romantics A GMA Book Club P..., Ashley Poston
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The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick

Author: Ashley Poston

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/28/2022


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ 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.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2022

"I LOVED this book! . . . Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

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.

"One of the Summer's Hottest Reads"—Entertainment Weekly

About The Author

Ashley Poston is the New York Times bestselling author of A Novel Love Story, The Seven Year Slip, and The Dead Romantics. A native of South Carolina, she lives in a small gray house with her sassy cat and too many books. You can find her on the internet, somewhere, watching cat videos and reading fan fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 06, 2025

This is the kind of book that beckons you to return to its pages when you're feeling down, lost, or overwhelmed, seeking a glimmer of hope and the promise that things will indeed get better. It has captivated my heart in every possible way, from the author's sharp and sarcastic tone to the endearing......more

Goodreads review by Ayman on July 27, 2022

oh my fucking gawwwd!! i didn’t think i’d love this book as much as i do. once i cracked open this book at the crack ass of dawn i couldn’t stop reading. personally I’ve never read anything like this before. i didn’t know i could cry tears of joy to this extent. the high i left reading this book fel......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on May 20, 2024

if you can get over the fact that the mc says things like “doggo” or “chaos gremlin” or “zoom zoom juice” unironically (and often) then this is pretty cute......more

Goodreads review by jessica on August 21, 2022

ughhh. this is honestly so stinkin' cute, i cant handle it. 😩 as her adult debut, AP has knocked it out of the park and she needs to only write adult romance novels from now on. i beg. ive read some of her YA books and i was never really a fan because of how juvenile they felt. but this. this book is......more

Goodreads review by Jesse (JesseTheReader) on February 01, 2023

wow wow wow I loved every bit of this. I'm having a hard time even thinking of anything to critique. It's far from what I expected and I found it incredibly hard to put down.......more


Quotes

“It’s ‘While You Were Sleeping’ meets ‘Six Feet Under,’ and I need to yell to everyone about how good it is…The result is an antidote for despair, a romance that is frank about the fact that life ends and time marches on but that nevertheless insists: We aren’t a gothic horror novel. We’re a love story. This is a book to make you laugh during the funeral scene and cry when the dance party begins."—The New York Times

The Dead Romantics is a lyrical masterpiece of a book that's both cozy and impactful in the way it deals with grief.” —People

“We could all use a good summer ghost story, and you can't get much better than Ashley Poston's adult fiction debut.”—Entertainment Weekly

“I LOVED this book. A beautiful, poignant story, full of beautiful, poignant characters. Florence is exactly the type of lovable, endearing, relatable lead I want to fall for, and her journey through learning how to love again had me squealing, sighing, laughing. The Dead Romantics is like a beautifully crafted puzzle: at the end all the pieces fall perfectly into place, and the picture that they form is at once touching, funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

“What fun—the Emily Henry/Casey McQuiston reader (aka me) is going to gobble this book up. Smart, quick, and absolutely bubbling over with love for the genre of romance itself. Delicious.”—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow

"The Dead Romantics was an absolute and unexpected delight. Voicy and quirky and fun; the pages will probably sparkle (but with black glitter)."—Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners

"The Dead Romantics takes so many things I love—quirky heroines, found families, cozy small towns, fanfics, GHOSTS (!!!)—and gives them all a fresh, fun, thoroughly modern spin. This is truly a RomCom to die for!"—Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of Reckless Girls

“This book made me fall in love, broke my heart then reassembled it at least twice, and left me swooning. A hauntingly romantic, hilariously heartwarming story. Ashley Poston is the real deal.”—Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Not Your Average Hot Guy

"Poston makes her adult debut with a refreshing rom-com about love, loss, and hope . . . . She manages to both affirm the cynics and give hope to the romantics by simultaneously embracing and subverting rom-com tropes. The sparkling dialogue makes the characters come alive—even the dead ones. Readers won’t be able to put this down."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Romance, chaos, and complications are central components in Poston's refreshingly fun, spirited rom-coms, and The Dead Romantics is no exception. The beauty and charm of Poston's storytelling continues to make miraculous happy endings out of the messes in which ordinary people often find themselves entangled.”—Shelf Awareness