Ashley PostonRomance · Contemporary Romance
The Dead Romantics
Synopsis
Florence Day ghostwrites bestselling romances for a famous author — which is awkward, because after a brutal breakup she no longer believes in love at all. Worse, her handsome new editor, Benji Andor, refuses to grant the extension she desperately needs. Then a phone call sends her career worries reeling: her father has died, and Florence must return for the first time in a decade to Mairmont, the small Southern town she fled, where her eccentric, loving family runs the local funeral parlour.
Florence has always been able to see ghosts — a family gift she resents. So she is thrown when a ghost appears at the funeral home's door: not her father, but Benji, her own editor, with no idea why he's still here. As Florence helps her grieving family lay her father to rest, she also tries to help Benji find his unfinished business so he can move on — even as she starts to wish he never would.
Warm, funny, and quietly devastating, The Dead Romantics is a paranormal romance about grief, going home, and rediscovering a belief in love in the most unlikely place.
How it reads
- Writing4.0
- Impact3.0
- Characters3.0
- Plot3.0
- Atmosphere5.0
Prose complexity 4/10
Spice level
2.0 avg spice
Content warnings (1)
Death Of A Parent
Readers say (1)Moderate · Moderate · Emotional · Romantic · Heartwarming · Workplace Romance · Forced Proximity
Readers flagged (1)
Death Of A Parent
- I certainly wasn't a fan. I've noticed that trend in these books were they involved around someone in the book industry. I seem to be running into books along those lines a lot. I think it would have been better if the heroine was a little bit older. The book has the feel of a YA novel. I got that feeling from the way they talk, the way they interacted with each other, and the way that everything just had to be so "with the times". Enjoyed the supernatural angle, but I did find the book extremely predictable. I did not like how it seems that the author wanted to check so many boxes of being modern. It seemed forced and not organic. Also I know she hinted in the book that she was writing a different kind of romance, a sad romance. And that is what this is. A sad romance. I said it before and I'll say it again, if I wanted to be sad I would read the news. I like my books with the touch of ridiculousness but I also enjoy the light-heartedness. This book did not have that. A lot of the book was boring, if I'm going to be honest. I thought there would be a tie back to a lot of the stuff that was mentioned but it was not. So many things could have been edited out. Which is funny since an editor is one of the main characters in the book. How did you not catch this? The book takes place over the course of the week. That's not bad in and of itself, but for the fact that two characters somehow love each other! How is that possible? I did not feel like the romance was even there. I felt like there was a friendship, that's about it. Maybe best buddies? So strange.
- O que dizer dessa história que tomou um rumo completamente diferente do que eu imaginava !!! A vida da Florence tomou um caminho completamente diferente do que ela imaginava, depois de escrever e publicar um livro, ela acabou virando Gosthwriter de uma autora famosa, e quando ela achou que as coisas não podiam piorar ela teve um bloqueio criativo, e o prazo está cada vez mais próximo e ela não tem absolutamente nada pra entregar. E no dia que ela vai pedir uma extensão de prazo, tudo parece dar errado, mas ela não tem alternativa, e sim ela consegue a extensão, mas vai ter um preço ... Com a vida profissional "resolvida" ela precisa resolver outro problema, seu pior pesadelo, voltar para a sua cidade natal, algo que ela tem evitado por mais de 10 anos, mas agora ela não tem escolha, e vai precisar ir até lá... Mas ela não pretende ficar, nada ali a prende, principalmente agora, mas acontece que ela tem um dom, ela consegue ver fantasmas, não do jeito assustador da coisa, ela ajuda eles a resolverem o que os prende na Terra, tipo a Miranda de Ghost Whisper, ou o Mark Rufallo naquele filme com a Reese Whiterspoon ( E se Fosse Verdade), e ela vai acabar vendo um fantasma, mas dessa vez o fantasma é conhecido, e ela não faz ideia do que ele está fazendo naquela cidade... Mas ela não tem escolha vai ter que ajudar ele, apenas pra um dia ela acordar e ele não estar mais ali, e a sua vida voltar a não ter mais muito sentido... Mas dessa vez o Universo tem uma surpresa pra ela !!!
- <div>Loved it, wanted to read more of the author after seven year slip and I don't think any work of hers can beat that, but this one was beautifully written too. Didn't expect him to be alive (dumb of me I know ) so when it happened I lovedd it, these two have my heart 💗<br><br>The side characters and their stories were engaging and loved them,<spoiler>Annie being dead too was also a nice tiwst. Just lovedd it, thankfully he was alive 🫶🏼 </spoiler><br><br>Someone find me a Benji Andor now <3</div>
- 4.25 - 4.5 ⭐️ I did not expect this book to be sooo good!