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Sounds Like Love

Ashley Poston

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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?

RomanceRomantic ComedyParanormal RomanceFictionAdult
Pages
384
First published
June 17, 2025
Language
English
Edition
Ebook

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  • Finished July 25, 2025

    this is really just joe jonas's part in this is me from camp rock and i'm not even mad about it

  • Finished June 13, 2026

    “Grief is just a love song in reverse” I really liked this one, it had one of my favourite micro tropes in it so it was pretty much guaranteed to be a win for me. This was a really touching and yet tragic story filled with love. This really is a book about what love sounds like, in a multitude of ways. I loved Jo and Sasha so much. I was really worried because I truly do have songs in books and any sort of book about musicians are just not for me, but there was less singing that I was anticipating and I really enjoyed it. (The audio however was not for me) CLEM AND IWAN MENTION AND BREIF INTERACTION!! MY BABIES! oh and the authors note 😭😭😭 Her authors notes are not to be skipped and they always have me even more emotional than the book.

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    Started July 21, 2026 · Finished August 3, 2026

    This is not one of my favs by this author, but was enjoyable. I did like the concept, and the magical realism in her works that also ties to loss, it makes the characters feel real and relatable.

  • Finished June 9, 2026