Sounds Like Love – Book Review

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 Ashley Poston.

Joni Lark is living the dream. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA…and she can’t seem to 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 her inspiration. But when she gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is avoiding her, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.

How can she think about writing her next song when everything is changing without her?

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 hangups of his own.

Surely, he’s a figment of her overworked imagination.

But then the very real man attached to the voice shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s aggravating and gruff on the outside—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan:

They’ll finish the song haunting them both, break their connection, and hope they don’t risk their hearts in the process.

Because that song stuck in their heads? Maybe it’s there for a reason.

Sounds Like Love is Ashley Poston’s latest novel. Seven Year Slip was my favorite of hers but I always make it a point to read all her latest novels (even though it is romance)

Joni Lark is one of the coveted song writers in LA but recently, Joni couldn’t write a single song. While attending Willa Gray’s concert, she meets a former boy band member, Sebastian. When the video cam focuses on them, Joni was supposed to kiss Sebastian. They kiss but then they go in separate ways. The next day, Joni goes back to her hometown in South Carolina. Her parents are running a successful restaurant/bar/theater. When her parents give a devastating news, Joni could a melody being hummed in her mind. Joni realizes that she can hear someone else’s thoughts and that someone else can also hear her thoughts. They meet and it was none other than Sebastian. Joni gets to know more about Sebastian and at the same time a love blossom between the two.

Ashley Poston always write romance books with a taste of magical realism in it. Each of her books seem to have a theme and in this case, the theme is music. Joni and Sebastian seem to be having a strong chemistry between them and Joni is a strong female lead in the story. I also liked the family dynamics mentioned in the story.

Although I didn’t like this book as much as I did with Seven Year Slip, nonetheless the story was funny with laugh out loud scenes and of course filled with music. Overall this is wth four stars.