I just received my special edition copy of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston from Fairy Loot. I typically try to avoid purchasing special editions because there are just too many of them and I’ll never be able to keep up. BUT I couldn’t resist this one because it is SO beautiful and it was one of my top favorite books of 2022! And in honor of receiving the special edition copy in the mail, I thought I would share the synopsis and my initial thoughts from when I first read the book in September of 2022. If you want to see a video showing off the end pages and sprayed edges, hop over to my Instagram.

Synopsis

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.

My initial feelings

I just finished this book and I don’t think I’ll stop thinking about it for a very long time. This was so beautifully written, hit me in all the feels and kept me on my toes! I loved the vulnerability between the main characters and I loved that their circumstances didn’t give them time to be anyone but themselves with one another. So so so good! ❤️❤️❤️

Also, I listened to part of this book on audio and the narration was FANTASTIC!