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Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

32 reviews

emmamema146's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

6 stars ⭐️ Six, for every time this book made me cry.

Music is such a powerful tool and Ashley Poston used it to its every advantage. I tried my best to pause and listen to every reference that I could in the moment and each one just made the story more and more grounded. The songs made me slow down and feel everything. They made me laugh, dance, and cry.

Most notably, the ones that I felt the most were, Dancing in the Dark, which was also referenced beautifully in Happy Place by Emily Henry (see page 251). Stand By Me, which I think is my favorite song of all time. And Vienna…because was just criminal.

And Born to Run, as that is the song that plays when I think about goodbye I didn’t get to say.

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gizelleinak's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A great read that I can definitely see reading again. I didn't think based on the description that I would like this book all that much but the execution was great. Highly recommend.

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sunshinekmp's review against another edition

3.5

funny hopeful 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

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rudegoldberg's review against another edition

5.0

inspiring reflective medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I've never read Ashley Poston before and didn't realize her books tend to have an element of magical realism in them, which is usually something I avoid. I also clearly didn't read the book summary well before starting. So I almost stopped reading when magical realism made an appearance. But I'm glad I stuck with it. This is one of my few 5 star reads this year.
The characters were interesting, flawed but obnoxious. There was no completely ridiculous 3rd act breakup that made me roll my eyes or want to scream. I really enjoyed this book. There were moments where I laughed and others where I teared up. I had to put the book down near the end because I wasn't ready to be done reading. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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blewballoon's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Celebrity romances and books revolving around music aren't really my jam (haha) but I love Ashley Poston's writing, so I knew I wanted to give this a try anyway.

I think I had the experience I expected. I wasn't disappointed, and if you do love the tropes associated with celebrity romances you might have even more fun than I did. The music stuff was also pretty accessible, although not particularly interesting to me. The dramas outside of the romance with the family and friends of the FMC had potential, but I feel like they got pushed to the background a bit too much in favor of all the music stuff.

I do think telepathic link romances are a cool premise (see Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell for a sci-fi version) and I enjoyed that element. It also meant that for a single FMC-POV romance we actually did kind of get the MMC's internal monologue a tiny bit.

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