🎧 book review: Ghosted by Sarah Ready

3.5⭐
Genre ~ contemporary romance
Series ~ Ghosted #1
Setting ~ NYC
Publication date ~ September 26, 2023
Page Count ~ 457 (58 chapters + 2 epilogues)
Audio length ~ 14 hours 3 minutes
Narrators ~ Sarah Naughton, Rob Brinkmann
POV ~ all single 1st, except epilogue #2 is Daniel’s POV
Featuring ~ 2 parts, paranormal, insta-love, references to suicide and bullying (not main characters), minimal steamage

My review:

Jillian & Daniel are an unlikely couple that you can’t help but root for. I don’t think I’ve ever read a similar plot before, so yay for uniqueness, but I’m not sure I fully believe it. Yes, I do believe in ghosts and do want to be one one day, but I don’t know, I’m mixed about this right now.

What in the ever loving with their first se*ual encounter? A bit odd to me because it can’t be real, well duh because he’s a ghost, so it’s not, but yet it kind of gave off a realistic vibe, as well.
I did admire Jillian’s tenacity in the 2nd part, but in turn she was clingy and stalkerish and I can’t say I was fully in love with her. I’d like to know how she got the gig of a relationship expert when she has trouble talking to men, she’s never really been in a relationship and is a virgin? I liked Daniel, both ghost and real, but I feel the story would have benefited with his POV. Also, he’s a shirtless ghost so why is he wearing a shirt on the cover?

Overall, it had cute, sad, fun, heartbreaking, and just a few eye rolling moments.

Narration notes:
It was pretty long, but I was able to listen at 3x perfectly fine, so it didn’t take up too much time. Sarah did a lovely job. Rob only narrated one chapter, so I don’t have any complaints.

Series notes:
We will be getting Serena’s story in February 2024. Add Switched to your TBR.

*Thanks to the author, W.W. Crown and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

Jillian Nejat is the only dating and relationship expert on the planet who is incapable of speaking to men. If they’re living, if they’re breathing, it’s game over.

With her bank account at zero, her career a dumpster fire, and her dating life in a ten-year slump, she moves into a tiny, dirt-cheap NYC apartment.

Unfortunately, the apartment is already occupied.

Daniel (no-last-name) is a sexy, shirtless, six-pack wielding heartthrob who is also…dead.

He isn’t living. He isn’t breathing. He’s a ghost. He’s also the only man on the planet who Jillian can talk to.

Soon, Daniel’s convinced that it’s his afterlife mission to resurrect Jillian’s love life. He knows, if he helps her fall in love then he can move on. Jillian agrees. The last thing she needs is a Lothario ghost haunting her living room.

But then, one practice date leads to another, one confession leads to more, and suddenly Jillian fears she’s falling for the one man she can never have.

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