Sounds Like Love
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ∙ A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.
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Joni Lark has a secret. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA, and yet she can’t write. There’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.
When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark inspiration. But when Joni gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is hiding something, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.
How can Joni write when her world is leaving her behind?
Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with an emptiness of his own.
Surely, he’s a figment of Joni’s overworked imagination.
Then a very real man shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s arrogant and guarded—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan for breaking their inconvenient telepathic connection: finish the song haunting them both and hope they don’t risk their hearts—or their secrets—in the process.
Because that melody, the one drawing them together . . . what if it’s there for a reason?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A young songwriter ends up with more than a musical earworm in her head, much to her dismay, in this magical rom-com. Joni Lark is coming off a huge hit song when she finds herself running out of creative gas, so she retreats to her family’s home in the beachside town of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, where her parents run a well-loved but tired venue called the Revelry. She’s haunted by a fragment of a song she keeps hearing in her head—and also someone else’s thoughts. Apparently, it’s the voice of another musician named Sasha, who can also hear Joni’s thoughts, as well as that ghostly musical fragment. Author Ashley Poston balances the magical and the real with deftness, sensitivity, and humour as Joni learns to reconcile the sympathetic Sasha in her head with the brash person he is in real life while also dealing with her mother’s retreat into dementia and the upcoming closure of the Revelry. Sounds Like Love is a sparkling read, perfect for a warm summer evening.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Poston (A Novel Love Story) delivers a winning magical realist romance that explores artistic creation, grief, and new beginnings—all through the medium of a sweet, slow-burning love story between a burnt-out songwriter and a former boy band "bad boy" who's eager to make a comeback. "Popcorn pop song" writer Joni Lark is stuck. She hasn't written a new song in nearly a year, she's run out of old material to revise, and on top of that, her parents have decided to close the Revelry—the family-run music venue where she has always been able to find inspiration—due to her mother's worsening dementia. So when she starts hearing a man's voice in her head, Joni thinks she's cracked from stress. The voice, Sebastian, is equally convinced that Joni is imaginary, until a phone call proves that they are both real people tied together by a mysterious psychic link that's somehow connected to a half-finished song. Poston mines this setup for both humor and pathos as she teases out a deep history connecting her protagonists. This moving romance will delight Poston's fans and should earn her plenty of new ones.
