contemporary fantasy
Florence Day is a ghostwriter for a successful, older romance author. After a terrible breakup, Florence has lost her belief in "happily ever after" and finds herself unable to write. Up against a deadline, Florence gets a phone call telling her that her father, owner of the local funeral parlor and the most important man in her life, has died. So she gets on a plane to return to her hometown for the first time in 10 years. But Florence hasn't been home because she, like her father, sees ghosts. And now her new editor, in all his ghostly glory, is knocking on her door...
The Dead Romantics was a lot cuter in
theory than in execution. I knew that I would have issues with this book
when, within the first few chapters, the main character, Florence, used
multiple nicknames for Waffle House, only to end up calling it by it's
regular name for rest of the book. (Why bother with the nicknames?) Still, I was intrigued by the premise of Ashley Poston's book, so I kept
reading.
There are things to like in this book- the story is
sweet, most of the characters are charming, and I enjoyed the
interaction between the Day family members. But I also found so much of
the book to be ridiculous - the town so small that no one needs a car,
they can just walk everywhere (how quaint!), years worth of bullying can
be brushed aside in moments, and the ghostly love story had an obvious
outcome in my opinion.
The biggest crime in my opinion, though,
was that I simply didn't like Florence. Spineless and selfish is a
strange personality combination but she somehow managed to pull it off
in a way that showed her to generally be a brat. When things get tough,
Florence flees and lets someone else take care of everything and I don't
have a lot of patience for people (or characters) like that.
So,
I would say, if you need a quick read for your vacation, this will work.
But there are better books out there worth your time.
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