{Paranormal Romance Review} Ghosted by Sarah Ready

Ghosted by Sarah Ready
on September 26th, 2023
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal
Pages: 490
Source: Netgalley
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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 that 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.

I received Ghosted for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I was not ready to experience what I did while reading this book. I was thinking this would be a forbidden love between a human and a ghost. It was so much more.

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.