The Dead Romantics

Dnf @ 8%/ 2 chapters

I just... really don't like Florence. Who goes to a professional meeting looking shabby and I showered for 4 days, like what??? And your deadline for a whole ass novel is tomorrow?? Girl, no.
It's so cringe...

Gave up 10% into this, and surprise, it wasn't even the supernatural element that did it, no it was the annoying protagonist, who devoid of all self-confidence let's herself get dragged along on a night out on the eve of an important deadline.

I think I just can't read current contemporary romance.  Authors politics show too much.

4.5

Wish I had read this before TSYS.

This would have been so much better if it wasn't a romance.

I ended up really liking this odd little book!

DNF

No fue el libro para mí desde que la prota me cayó mal a las 5 páginas de empezado.
La cantidad de self pity que se cargaba mientras quería ser relatable me estresó de sobremanera. Es que no la soporté. FCKING LEARN WHEN TO QUIT GIRL, si ya no quería escribir novelas de romance podía ser pinches honesta y decir, no puedo con este proyecto, ?? Literalmente es una adulta y puede decidir por sí misma. No, no,. Y luego que se sobre mencionen libros/series/media de la vida real me estresa porque literal parece sobre saturación como que quisiera que el punto fuera que todos viéramos que es quirky UGH
no pude pasar de la primera vergüenza con el editor.
Le tenía tristeza a la sinopsis, pero con ese tipo de narración y esa prota, solo puedo llorar y decir bai jsjxsj

I saw where this was going from a mile away, but I'm not mad at it. 3.5!

Well, I'm glad there was a happy ending. As cute as some of the funeral, hometown stuff was, I don't know that I needed to read a book where more than half of it was about that. This reads a little bit more like women's fiction or YA than romance and that's a bit of a disappointment. It was cutesy and pretty tame and Benji didn't exist enough for it to be a romance. It had a twist I expected but another twist I didn't expect. I thought I'd never read this because it was so boring when I first picked it up, so I'm glad I gave it another try... but meh. If it didn't have death, ghosts, and a funeral home in it, I probably wouldn't have bothered.

Podczas czytania stwierdziłam, że zmieniłabym tej książce tytuł

3.75, el principio es aburrido para reventar pero el final es digno de comedia romántica de los 90-2000's

The thing about human/ghost romances (it's got to be it's own genre) is there really is no "will they/won't they" tension, unless there's a twist, and I won't spoil for you whether there is or not. The "dead boyfriend" is often a convenient way to tell a story about saying goodbye. Author Ashley Boston took an interesting angle in this book by making the protagonist's family run the town mortuary, and the examples of how the Day family has supported so many people in the town through the worst time in their lives makes an interesting backdrop. The story started a little slowly for me but pace picked up dramatically when it is revealed how Florence's ex-boyfriend betrayed her. He was such an SOB that I would have added an extra half-star to this review if his comeuppance had been more satisfying. Overall an interesting story and a quick read/listen.

so good!!so I'll be short. the first half of the book was good but not engaging, aroud the 61% trough the book, it started to get really good. I actually had predicted the coma part from the beginning so... happy me. overall so cute and wholesome. loved it but not a 5 star read.

I am so sad about this. The authors writing and story telling is fantastic. I loved the words on the pages but everything about the romance felt lack luster which given this is a romance made this fall extremely flat. I can't even say that anything was wrong per say but just I didn't believe the love.

This a sweet story of grief and learning to love again. We follow our FMC who's dad just died and has to go back home. The eclectic family who own a funeral home and some of them see ghost, our FMC being one of them. As she comes home in the midst of funeral planning, her editor comes to her in a slightly blurry and definitely not alive. With the goal of helping him pass on to the afterlife, they have adventures within this small town and find themselves digging into their desires.

Give it a try! It just didn't work perfectly in my noggin.

I can't believe it's finished. I had a whole range of emotions running through me while reading this. Mostly happiness but there were a lot of tears involved.

4 stars!

3/5

This book presents a nuanced narrative that may appeal to some readers, but it left me wanting more.
It initially struggles with a slow pace, only hitting its stride in the third act. I also found the thorough detailing quite excessive, occasionally dulling the overall experience. More akin to a family drama than a traditional romance, the book somewhat resembles the atmosphere of a Lifetime movie.

It was overall an okay story that demands a slower reading pace compared to other novels.

I really enjoyed the central romance and the story wasn't bad but the writing style was just not for me.

i loveeeee how this author writes and the discussions she weaves into romance 

“Creo que las personas que amamos también pueden estar en las páginas de los libros.
Espero que algún día te encuentres en un libro.
Y espero que ese libro viva para siempre”. ❤️‍

this book is the exception when I say that I don't really love romance, Ashley Poston is killing it !

Muy chulo aunque no me ha enganchada y he tardado la VIDA en acabarlo

This is my current favorite romcom. Such a creative premise, real connection, and real conflict.

Dit was charmant, maar een stuk zwaarder dan verwacht.

“I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.But I was wrong.Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.”

In plaats van een schattige romance kreeg ik een diepgaander verhaal over de dood, verdriet en terugblikken. Ik vond het best leuk en vond dat het veel lastige onderwerpen op een gracieuze en welbespraakte manier behandelde.

“I'm not great with surprises. I don't—didn't—take chances. I didn't take risks. On anything—or anyone.”

Het romantische gedeelte was echter niet echt succesvol voor mij. Ik vond het eerlijk gezegd nogal saai en eigenlijk ook onnodig gezien de rest van het verhaal, wat nogal raar is om te zeggen over een boek dat aan de man gebracht wordt als zijnde een romance.

“I couldn't believe that I was swooning over the bare minimum—decency.”

Ik vond het verhaal veel interessanter als het zich concentreerde op de familie en de eigenzinnige manier waarop ze het uitvaartcentrum runden, of op het zelfonderzoek van onze hoofdpersonen.

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.”

Een leuke en doordacht boek, maar dat een beetje te lijden had onder de verkeerde marketing, waardoor onnodige verwachtingen ontstonden die niet werden waargemaakt.

idk this just isn't my taste and i need to stop thinking if i just try another rom com I'll like it, but this one particularly was just ridiculous.

I wasn't sure I was going to like this book. I've heard great things about it, but the whole ghost thing doesn't appeal to me. But what better romance to read during October, right?

Well, this book really took me by surprise. By the last few chapters I was screaming and reading while standing up because the ending was just so good! No spoilers here, but this is a very sweet and emotional love story with a very compelling female main character and a family that feels like they jump out of the page. It's cheesy, but honestly by the end of it I was all in.