Reviews - Sounds Like Love

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Sounds Like Love

Ashley Poston

4.14 AVERAGE

kannunziato's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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: No

I love Ashley Poston’s writing and the whimsical elements in all of her stories, but the romance didn’t click here, and you can’t have a successful romance novel if the romance doesn’t click. The characters had some chemistry at the outset, but then that sort of took a back seat to everything else going on in Joni’s life, which meant when they finally got together I was like “oh, already?” even though it was actually like 275 pages in.

Still had a reasonable amount of fun reading this, but it’s not one I can see myself revisiting.

violet_reads1's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

vilms_k's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookaddictpnw's review against another edition

4.25

emotional 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

amdriesen83's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted

doodleslooth's review against another edition

2.5

I had high hopes for this after Dead Romantics and The Seven Year Slip. I thought A Novel Love Story was just a fluke, but this lacked dimension again.

The magical element could have been effective, but was not fully executed and lacked realism, only used in ways that seemed convenient to the plot. The characters took it too calmly, the panic about someone being in your head was not fully fleshed out. A lot of it was still too much like dialogue - when it could have been more interesting. I thought it was also a convenient excuse that Sasha has a quiet mind, making the moments his thoughts appear in Joni's head more boring and linear. I didn't connect to the characters and the supporting characters also lacked depth. And it also just felt like this big city girl comes back to a small town plotline was overdone and this book did not add a new twist to that.

I still enjoyed the writing style, but the plot, characters and even the whole setting were a letdown.