The Dead Romantics

By: Ashley Poston

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

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

Seen it coming a mile away ..

The narrator, Eileen Stevens made this one better for me. it was a simple cute story. A bit of a twist, but come on... you didn't see it coming? No harm no foul. It's is a cute, weird, fun little story of complete fiction...I can handle that once in a while.

Cute story

Overall a cute story. It took me most of the book to get over the narrator’s voices for the characters, though. Male voices came across really odd. And some of the phrases were said with odd emphasis. But, the story was cute and entertaining and the narration as a whole was quite good.

Well, that was a lovely surprise!

I began this book without reading much of the synopsis, (I like the cover and the title, because, yes, I'm one of those people.) not knowing how much it centered on the themes surrounding death. You see, last week was the anniversaries of my parent's deaths. So, yeah, this book hit home and it hit hard. But, through it's words and through the inevitable tears I shed while reading them, I felt a shift in my healing process. It feels now like I have the ability to let go while still holding on, and an ability to say goodbye and know that they'll never really leave because I am, in a way, them, and they are me.
My heart and soul thank you Ashley!

Everything you want in a Romance Novel

The book is sweet, funny and a little sad but is a feel good book which leaves you happy you listened to it!

Amazing

This is the combination of a perfect narrator and the most unexpected story. I will listen to this one again and again.