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Most Anticipated by Parade · Buzzfeed · Harper’s Bazaar · Elle · She Reads · The Seattle Times · BookRiot and more!
A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.
Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so set on going her annual book club retreat this year—she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gestures—no matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a novel…
Because it is.
This place can’t be real, and yet… she’s here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet, the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. It’s perfect—and perfectly frozen, trapped in the late author’s last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure that’s why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.
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Critic reviews
“This one goes out to all of the magical realism lovers out there. If you aren’t familiar with Ashley Poston, you should be.”—theSkimm
“A romance lovers dream of a book. Whimsical, romantic and packed with charm, Ashley Poston is the queen of high concept love stories.”—Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Part
“Ashley Poston has done it again. I fell into these pages just as effortlessly as Eileen tumbles into Eloraton. Whimsical, emotional, and tender, A Novel Love Story is another enchanting romance from Poston."—B.K. Borison, author of Business Casual
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- Narrated by: Katherine Center, Patti Murin
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up.
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Terrific Narration, Lovely Story
- By Meredith on 06-16-24
By: Katherine Center
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Summer Romance
- By: Annabel Monaghan
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her, in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees.
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Sweet ,clean romance that was sometimes a bit too slow
- By Well Read Nana 1/24 on 06-06-24
By: Annabel Monaghan
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Not Another Love Song
- By: Julie Soto
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Oliver Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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When professional—and self-taught—violinist Gwen Jackson plays, she disappears into the peaks and valleys of each song, a quiet passion that never quite explodes into pure emotion. Xander Thorne is the exact opposite. A cellist and a rock star, he’s all about big emotion, but not even his six-foot-four frame can contain his skill, his genius...and an attitude that borders on jerkitude.
By: Julie Soto
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One-Star Romance
- By: Laura Hankin
- Narrated by: Laura Hankin
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected chemistry has Natalie cautiously optimistic about being maid of honor to Rob’s best man. Until, minutes before the ceremony, Nat learns that Rob wrote a one-star review of her new novel, which has them both reeling: Nat from imposter syndrome, and Rob over the reason he needed to write it. When the reception ends, these two opposites hope they’ll never meet again.
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Me encantó
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-24
By: Laura Hankin
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The Love of My Afterlife
- By: Kirsty Greenwood
- Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her. As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
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Great read!
- By Special K on 07-03-24
By: Kirsty Greenwood
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If the Shoe Fits
- A Meant to Be Novel
- By: Julie Murphy
- Narrated by: Jen Ponton
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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With a shiny new design degree but no job in sight, Cindy moves back in with her stepmother, Erica Tremaine, the executive producer of the world’s biggest dating reality show. When a contestant on Before Midnight bows out at the last minute, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight. Showcasing her killer shoe collection on network TV seems like a great way to jump-start her career. And, while she’s at it, why not go on a few lavish dates with an eligible suitor?
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Light, fun and worthy of a day dream
- By asnyd279 on 08-08-21
By: Julie Murphy
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The Rom-Commers
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Center
- Narrated by: Katherine Center, Patti Murin
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates—The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!—it’s a break too big to pass up.
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Terrific Narration, Lovely Story
- By Meredith on 06-16-24
By: Katherine Center
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Summer Romance
- By: Annabel Monaghan
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her, in the same way he claimed his favorite of her three children: by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees.
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Sweet ,clean romance that was sometimes a bit too slow
- By Well Read Nana 1/24 on 06-06-24
By: Annabel Monaghan
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Not Another Love Song
- By: Julie Soto
- Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Oliver Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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When professional—and self-taught—violinist Gwen Jackson plays, she disappears into the peaks and valleys of each song, a quiet passion that never quite explodes into pure emotion. Xander Thorne is the exact opposite. A cellist and a rock star, he’s all about big emotion, but not even his six-foot-four frame can contain his skill, his genius...and an attitude that borders on jerkitude.
By: Julie Soto
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One-Star Romance
- By: Laura Hankin
- Narrated by: Laura Hankin
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected chemistry has Natalie cautiously optimistic about being maid of honor to Rob’s best man. Until, minutes before the ceremony, Nat learns that Rob wrote a one-star review of her new novel, which has them both reeling: Nat from imposter syndrome, and Rob over the reason he needed to write it. When the reception ends, these two opposites hope they’ll never meet again.
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Me encantó
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-24
By: Laura Hankin
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The Love of My Afterlife
- By: Kirsty Greenwood
- Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her. As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
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Great read!
- By Special K on 07-03-24
By: Kirsty Greenwood
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Finding Mr. Write
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Will Peters, Patricia Santomasso, and others
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Daphne McFadden already knows that as a female author, the cards are stacked against her. Now she knows just how much. Because her sudden whim to pose as an “outdoorsy hunk of masculinity” male author for her new book just resulted in the unthinkable: a bidding war, a huge book deal, and the kind of fame every author dreams of. Now she’s in big trouble. Because she needs to convince the world that Zane Remington actually exists...but how? By hiring an actor, of course.
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So cute!
- By Rebecca Stafford on 06-28-24
By: Kelley Armstrong
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Under Your Spell
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- By: Laura Wood
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, and about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the Breakup Spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want—spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott.
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Not in Love
- By: Ali Hazelwood
- Narrated by: Callie Dalton, Jason Clarke
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
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it lacked the chemistry and deep connection that characterizes Ali’s characters
- By Hamo on 06-14-24
By: Ali Hazelwood
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Love Letters to a Serial Killer
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- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
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Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first. Until William writes back.
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I finished it.
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-24
By: Tasha Coryell
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Husbands & Lovers
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- By: Beatriz Williams
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams.
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Amazing As Always
- By Amazon Customer on 06-27-24
By: Beatriz Williams
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Change of Heart
- By: Kate Canterbary
- Narrated by: Oscar Reyes, Stella Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Every summer, superstar surgeon Whitney Aldritch crashes weddings with her best friend. The first one was an accident, though after a decade of dropping in uninvited, they’re masters of their craft. They keep the rules simple, and they never go to bed alone.
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Make Narrator ruined it!
- By JMinerYager on 06-27-24
By: Kate Canterbary
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The Art of Catching Feelings
- By: Alicia Thompson
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Daphne Brink doesn’t follow baseball, but watching “America’s Snoozefest” certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce papers. After one too many ballpark beers, she heckles Carolina Battery player Chris Kepler, who quickly proves there might actually be a little crying in baseball. Horrified, Daphne reaches out to Chris on social media to apologize . . . but forgets to identify herself as his heckler in her message.
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Cute!
- By V on 07-02-24
By: Alicia Thompson
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The Seven Year Slip
- By: Ashley Poston
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it. And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment.
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Cute story but it’s “YOO-en” not “E-Wan”
- By Jeffrey B. on 09-05-23
By: Ashley Poston
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The Ex Vows
- By: Jessica Joyce
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago. With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.
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Lovelight Farms
- By: B.K. Borison
- Narrated by: Pippa Jayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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A pasture of dead trees, a hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons, and shipments that have mysteriously gone missing—Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, she enters a contest with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. James. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. There’s just one problem.
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Sweet story with characters that come to life
- By creatingkristen on 02-02-23
By: B.K. Borison
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Just Some Stupid Love Story
- A Novel
- By: Katelyn Doyle
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Tim Paige
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living—which is how she knows “romance” is a racket. The one and only time she was naive enough to fall in love was with her high school boyfriend, Seth—who she ghosted on the eve of graduation and hasn’t seen in fifteen years.
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Repetitive
- By Teresa Rumppe on 06-27-24
By: Katelyn Doyle
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The Dead Romantics
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Ashley Poston
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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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.
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 09-10-22
By: Ashley Poston
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- J. Berg
- 06-29-24
Please READ, don’t listen to this lovely book
I absolutely adore Ashley Poston. Like other reviewers I preordered this after Seven Year Slip & Dead Romantics.
And listening to Ashley narrate the acknowledgements & afterword (“Books and their Readers”) made the audio purchase ALMOST worth it.
Bottom line: the story is beautiful, imaginative, fun, romantic and immersive. Poston’s brand of magical realism is perfection — her characters ask the same questions we do and feel as baffled by their surroundings as we do. And when they go along with it, we do too. And therefore, when they give in and fall in love, we do too! Basically, I want to vacation in an Ashley Poston novel.
HOWEVER, I got all of this by going back and re-reading everything I missed after repeatedly zoning out and getting lost and/or frustrated by the monotone, really oddly paced, really quite terrible narration.
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- Avery Valentine
- 07-01-24
Everything
I loved the narrators subtle voice changes for characters which weren’t so abrupt that you were distracted. Her slight southern drawl was so alluring and kept me wrapped up!
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- Mair
- 06-27-24
Great story made less so by mediocre narration.
I am a fan of Ashley Poston. I adore “Dead Romantics” and “Seven Year Slip”: they’re in my favorites collection and I have listened to both books repeatedly.
I pre-ordered this book as soon as I knew it was coming. The story is good, characters great, and plot is interesting and unique. With that said, I often found my mind wandering and missing minutes of the book (that I’d rewind) because the narrator’s voice was somehow monotone: her voice range limited, character differentiation poor, and tone somewhat unpleasant.
Ashley Poston read her dedication at the end and I wish she had narrated the whole book. She had more expression in those few minutes than DDB during the whole book.
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- Dayra
- 06-30-24
A love letter to book readers!!!!
Ashley poston has become such an insta-buy for me!!! This story was phenomenal and it made my heart hurt (in a good way). The narrators country accent threw me off at first but I quickly got used to it. Listen to this, you will not regret it!
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- GeriatricMillennial
- 06-26-24
Another lovely mildly magical romance
My favorite stories are the ones like this which employ what I call (for lack of a better term) ordinary magic. I don’t really prefer elven lords or werewolf packs or vampire covens. What I love are stories about ordinary and practical-minded people stumbling into little pockets of magical oddity in the world and (after the initial surprise) taking it in stride until the magic nearly seems mundane.
This story, about a woman who finds herself in the fictional town populated by the fictional characters of her favorite book series, revisits the theme of adjusting to loss and change. It’s a bit of a love letter to the romance novel industry, authors, readers, and Very Good Friends.
Ashley Poston really had me going at nearly an hour before the end of the story. I was already writing my somewhat disappointed review in my head but in the end I got the HEA I needed to soothe my savage nerves.
I also appreciated the cameos near the end of characters from Ashley’s other book(s). It’s always lovely to unexpectedly run into beloved characters again. I think The Dead Romantics remains my favorite Ashley Poston book, but this one was lovely too.
(Note: I’m not very good at “spice” rating, but I guess this would be approximately two chilis out of five. There is intimacy and it’s not fade to black or anything, but it’s not overly explicit or crude)
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- Mel
- 06-26-24
A nice romance
I’m not sure why other people aren’t liking this? It’s basically Ash Poston’s MO?
We get a hilarious FMC who loves books and is obsessed with this small town books series. She accidentally enters the fictional town from the books. And a grumpy MMC who isn’t sure about this girl coming into town.
We get a little bit of mystery here and it’s much less predictable than Seven Year Slip buuuut it still is fairly predictable once you get to a certain point. I guessed the twist which I did in all of her other adult romances too. It’s definitely a pattern in her books where she’s not exceptionally great at foreshadowing.
Now, what I did like is that this idea was original. It was cute and funny and I loved the aspect of figuring out your life after you break up with a love interest, and relationships in general. As it was about a romance novel series with different relationships, it was kind of a nod to the romances we all read - and the relationships in them… and what happens “after” the HEA.
It’s very cute and funny and honestly imo it was WAY better than Seven Year Slip but not as good as Dead Romantics.
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- Juliel J
- 06-29-24
Interesting premise but boring story
I’ve liked Ashley Poston books. But this one had trouble keeping my attention. Nothing happens. No angst. I had trouble believing the romance between the main couple. In a few days they’re in love?
The narrator did not help. She wasn’t that good. I like when narrators use different voices.
Such a disappointment. Seemed like it would make a great story….but no.
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