The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick, Ashley Poston

The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick

Ashley Poston

Reader Score

80%

80% of readers

recommend this book

The New York Times Best Seller
2022 The New York Times Best Seller
Good Morning America Book Club
Included in
Good Morning America Book Club
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

Book Details

  • Publisher: Berkley Books
  • Publish Date: Jun 28th, 2022
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.64lb
  • EAN: 9780593336489
  • Categories: Romance - Romantic ComedyWomen

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
Book Cover for: The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
Book Cover for: The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
Book Cover for: This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
Book Cover for: One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston
Book Cover for: The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club, Jojo Moyes
Book Cover for: Beach Read, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand
Book Cover for: People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
Book Cover for: The One You Fight for, Roni Loren
Book Cover for: Under Currents, Nora Roberts
Book Cover for: Love & Other Disasters, Anita Kelly
Book Cover for: Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
Book Cover for: The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
Book Cover for: The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
Book Cover for: This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
Book Cover for: One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston
Book Cover for: The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club, Jojo Moyes
Book Cover for: Beach Read, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand
Book Cover for: People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
Book Cover for: The One You Fight for, Roni Loren
Book Cover for: Under Currents, Nora Roberts
Book Cover for: Love & Other Disasters, Anita Kelly

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.

More books by Ashley Poston

Book Cover for: The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: A Novel Love Story, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Sounds Like Love, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Among the Beasts & Briars, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Hawkeye: Bishop Takes King, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: El Amor Ha Muerto / The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Heart of Iron, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Bookish and the Beast, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: The Bewitching Hour (a Tara Prequel), Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: The Princess and the Fangirl, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Soul of Stars, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Geekerella, Ashley Poston
Book Cover for: Princess and the Fangirl, Ashley Poston

Praise for this book

"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

"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