A Novel Love Story
Really feel-Good Fiction, Modern Ladies Fiction, Romantic Comedy
Berkley
June 25, 2024
Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle
384
A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a piece of fiction…actually, from the New York Occasions bestselling writer of The Seven Yr Slip and The Useless Romantics. Eileen Merriweather likes to get misplaced in happily-ever-after. The fictional type, anyway. As a result of not less than imaginary males don’t depart you on the altar. She feels secure in a e-book. At house. Which could be why she’s so set on going her annual e-book membership retreat this yr—she wants good buddies, low cost wine, and grand romantic gestures—it doesn’t matter what. However when her automotive unexpectedly breaks down on the best way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint city that feels prefer it’s proper out of a novel… As a result of it is. This place can’t be actual, and but… she’s right here, in Eloraton, the city of her favourite romance collection, the place the sweet retailer’s honey taffy is all the time candy, the native bar’s burgers are all the time a bit burnt, and rain all the time comes within the afternoon. It seems like house. It’s good—and completely frozen, trapped within the late writer’s final unfinished story. Elsy is certain that’s why she should be right here: to assist deliver the city to its storybook ending. Besides there’s a character in Eloraton that she will’t place—a grumpy bookstore proprietor with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly horny mouth and impeccable style in novels. And he does not need her ending this e-book. Which is an issue as a result of Elsy is starting to suppose the city’s happily-ever-after may simply be intertwined along with her personal.
A Novel Love Story is a love story to like tales
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston was pleasant. I’ve been on a kick of studying books set in up to date settings which have a contact of magic—magic that’s simply usually accepted, embraced, and loved. These tales make me so blissful. A Novel Love Story superbly delivered my magical realism repair.
A bookish romance for the bookish
Elsy, a university professor, avid romance reader, and seeker of blissful endings, is struggling. She is recovering from a traumatic breakup and feels left behind. Her finest buddy is about to get engaged, and all of the members of her e-book membership have ditched their annual meetup on the cabin as a result of they’ve competing plans. She wants a break. She wants her week of studying books in a distant cabin to decompress from all of it, so she decides to go alone.
However life has different plans, and her drive to the cabin is riddled with obstacles, together with a horrible storm and no GPS. She pulls off at an exit looking for her method and nearly runs into a person standing in the midst of the highway. After her automotive veers off the highway and a subsequent altercation with this man, she decides to remain the night time. When she wakes up the subsequent day, she realizes the city is unusually acquainted. However it’s not simply the city; it’s the residents. She is aware of all of them intimately as a result of they’re all fictional characters in her favourite e-book collection.
Elsy is stranded in a city that doesn’t exist, surrounded by folks that ought to solely exist within the pages of her e-book.
However who’s the moody bookstore proprietor she nearly ran over?
Anders is just not a personality within the e-book collection, so who’s he, and why is he right here? Might he be the primary character within the unwritten e-book? Sadly, the writer died earlier than she may full the collection. This left Elsy with an enormous unfinished-story gap in her coronary heart. Can she assist repair a few of these characters’ journeys to assist them discover their blissful endings? Can she stay out the remainder of the collection? Will she permit herself to fall for a fictional character?
“I wished him to kiss me once more, sitting on this park bench, on such a beautiful summer season night time. The fireflies danced round us, the wind winding via the bushes, and when he set his eyes on me, I felt like the one story he wished to learn. And that was harmful, as a result of he was fictional and Rachel had written somebody for him. Somebody good.”
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
Isn’t it each reader’s dream to stay of their favourite fictional city?
I loved a lot my time with this e-book. The characters have been charming, the magic was good and the twist was sudden. There’s a candy melancholy that permeates all through the story, but it surely has sturdy waves of blissful gentle shining via. It was an ode to all of the small-town love tales I really like a lot and that I might be elated to stay in even for only a few minutes. Because of A Novel Love Story, I really feel like I did!
