Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston (June 17, 2025) Huge thanks to Berkley Romance and PRH Audio for the gifted advanced digital and audio copies of this deeply moving, sweet, and swoony story that had me laughing, crying, and reflecting on what really matters.
Joni Lark can’t write a song anymore, and that’s a huge problem—she’s one of LA’s most sought-after songwriters. When her mom was diagnosed with early onset dementia, Joni’s music vanished along with her spark. She’s hopeful that by returning to her small Outer Banks hometown and the music venue, The Revelry, her family has run for decades will spark her creativity while she spends one last summer with her mom. But when she gets there, The Revelry is run down, her best friend seems distant, and her mom is worse than she had hoped.
Then she hears a tune taking shape in her mind and a voice inside her head. A gruff male voice. And she’s in his head, too. And it isn’t, as she initially suspects, her imagination. So what happens when someone can hear your innermost thoughts? When they know your every truth? And when he shows up in person to figure out how to get out of her head, he’s not at all who she expected. And that tune they can’t seem to un-hear, it may be bigger than they both imagined.
Ashley Poston has such a gift for turning big themes into stories that feel deeply personal and intimate. This one is no exception: a small-town romance that celebrates new love and lifelong love, a family caught in a heartbreaking transition, and the raw honesty of finding yourself when everything else feels uncertain. It’s also a poignant exploration of how dementia slowly steals the people we love—and the quiet, brave ways we keep showing up for them. I ended this story feeling an urgency to make the most of every second.
🎧 Audiobook Notes 🎧Patti Murin has voiced some of my favorite books (Paradise Problem, The Bodyguard, The Rom-Commers, etc) and she knocked it out of the park again with this one. She really embodies the many emotions of this story. (11h, 25m)
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Audio Performance: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice: 🌶️
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