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The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

47 reviews

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Tldr; the characters are flat, I want more of Florence’s ability, but the grief is well-written.

Read my full review at: www.rainyreader.com/single-post/the-dead-romantics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Bullying, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

thefatpaperback's review against another edition

funny hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

While I didn’t expect to cry as much as I did while reading this one, it was so worth it. This is a story about loss and grief, but it’s also about love and SO full of hope. The Day Family’s outlook on death was comforting and healing, and it made this book so special. I’ve been calling it “a cute little weird read,” and it’s one I’ll read again and again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The premise is a little bit corny and unbelievable but the writing is beautiful and the characters take you on such an amazing ride that the little bit of corniness is well worth it. I cried a lot during this book — it’s about loss, but also about the things you can find inside your grief and loss. Florence is incredibly relatable to me for myriad reasons but I saw myself and others I love in the other characters as well. If you had told me before I read this book that I would believe in and love a ghost story romance, I would’ve called you a liar. But here we are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Infidelity, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

chrisljm's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from this book because I had just read another ghost novel earlier in the year that was decent, but The Dead Romantics was….. wow. 

This was everything I never knew I wanted in a story dealing with death/grief. The prose was beautiful and the story funny, wholesome, and just so feel good. Usually in stories dealing with grief, the pages are filled with an air of melancholy. That’s not to say there’s no sadness in Florence’s grief, but there was also so much more than that. In a culture where death is mostly seen as something heavy and unspeakable, The Dead Romantics focuses instead on the good memories created and left behind and how that can become a comfort to us. I don’t know, it all sounds so simple but I just really loved how Ashley Poston was able to weave it all so beautifully into her story. I loved everything from the humor, to the twist, to Benji, and to the small town of Mairmont.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Murder, Sexual content, Child death, and Death

Minor: Medical content, Racism, and Infidelity

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Child death, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

cgp1234's review against another edition

funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I'm not usually a fan of ghost stories (romantic or otherwise), so I was hesitant going into this, but it was a charming and poignant story about death and love and their interwoven natures. This was a lot more sad than I thought it would be, and the romance often took a backseat, but overall I thought this book was really lovely. It did drag at the beginning, and I was at times hyperaware that I was reading. I also was suprised by how tame the steamy scene was, given how much Florence talked about how much smut she wrote as a teen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

Minor: Infidelity, Child death, and Car accident

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This one was hard to rate. It's ambitious and weird (in a good way) and the first half didn't work as well for me as the last half, but it averaged out into a pretty effective, genuinely moving, certainly interesting romance that I'll probably be thinking about for some time. And it's a smart, interesting, contemporary that's not super explicitly steamy, which isn't always that easy to find. (I don't mind the steamy but I'm always looking for good closed door contemporaries to recommend to others.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cursing, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, and Murder