Sounds Like Love

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?

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Published Jun 17, 2025

384 pages

Average rating: 7.4

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ljzsreadsandreviews
Oct 13, 2025
8/10 stars
I simply adore the way Ashley Poston writes. The way she is able to blend a magical aspect into a contemporary world is one of my favorite things to read and she always makes me wish it could all be real. Plus, I end up being left thinking about her book well after I finish reading. This one was fun with the musical aspect but the other aspect I really loved was the “real” in it. There is a lot revolving around Joni’s mom’s illness and the grief she is struggling with and how that is effecting her and I found it beautiful the way her connection with Sasha allowed her to be able to deal with everything. Plus their magical connection is beautiful and I loved every minute.
JL Reads
Aug 07, 2025
10/10 stars
I’ve been waiting for AP to give us something as good as Dead Romantics, and she finally did it. I loved everything in this book. It’s beautiful and sad and just lovely. Book #69 in 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
MadocMattox
Aug 05, 2025
6/10 stars
This is my second novel by this author and really, it left me wanting more. I just did not find the reason for them to fall in love compelling.

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