Week 26 Review: Sounds Like Love

From Goodreads:

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.

My Review:
I absolutely loved reading this book! I love Ashley Poston's writing, and this latest romance sounded so good, and it lived up to that promise. I really enjoyed reading about these two who hold different positions in the music industry, hearing each other's thoughts, and hearing a song that only they can hear.

Joni is going through writer's block. She can't write a song, can't put lyrics to the page. Between the stress of coming up with a new song, and the new diagnosis that her mom has. Spending the summer at her childhood home sounds like a good plan to deal.

I really enjoyed their dynamics, where they briefly met at a concert held by a mutual work friend and ending up on a kiss cam. That he acted a bit of an asshole, because he's a celebrity and was used to people being obsessed with him...yeah, then they were in each others' heads, getting to know one another, and I really enjoyed that! 

Watching as they spent time together, as they wrote the song, was so fantastic! With feelings growing, but there being outside influences like her ex, and his father. I really enjoyed how it came together, with them, with the song, it was well deserved and earned. 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Ashley Poston! 

Author: Ashley Poston
Read: June 26th, 2025
Source: NetGalley/Bought 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2025 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Berkley
Published: June 17th 2025

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars