Reviewed by Lindsey Gray on
Jillian has just moved into her new studio apartment where the walls are lined with mirrors. She heard the former tenant was a ladies man with a different woman coming to the apartment with him every night. While she is unpacking at the end of the day, a shirtless man wearing low hung jeans and possessed abs for days appears in her apartment. She tries to hit the man with her handy baseball bat, but the swing goes through him and then he disappears.
We learn that Jillian is a writer for a small newspaper consisting of herself, three others, a slew of interns, and the editor in chief/owner. She writes about love and relationships, passing on her beliefs, all the while her dating life is a disaster. Jillian lets herself be set up on dates by her former childhood neighbor who she thinks of as another mother. After around one hundred and fifty or so dates, she still hasn’t over come her biggest weakness, her inability to talk to men. So when her hot, half-naked ghost shows up again and she’s able to talk to him, Jillian starts to hope she might be able to overcome her limitations. Her ghost friend, Daniel, is now following her to work and giving her advice, becoming her best friend and a little bit more.
I don’t want to give any spoilers of how Jillian and Daniel figure out their roads in this life and beyond. Sarah Ready elevates the ghost romance to another level. Her storytelling is compelling and it kept me fully engaged from one page to the next. While most expect the happily ever after, we do get there, but the journey is beautiful, at times heart wrenching, and one of the best ghost romance stories I’ve ever read. This is my first read from Sarah Ready and I will definitely be reading more from her soon.
I received Ghosted for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 30 August, 2023: Finished reading
- 30 August, 2023: Reviewed