There are some great new romances with ghost love interests out this year, and there are some of both kinds that I didn’t get the chance to cover in my previous post. Some take the hauntings a little more seriously while others are just…I don’t even know, dude. The ones I’ve read have all been a delight, and there are plenty more that I haven’t gotten to…but I am very excited to check them out! So as you see, there are lots of ways ghosts can exist in romance, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this particular…trope? Sub-sub-genre? Whatever…plays out in the future! (In the meantime, maybe I’ll look for that aged up Casper fic I dreamed up in the intro…) I have devoured plenty of Ashley Poston’s YA novels and I’m so excited she’s moved into grown-up territory! What. Ghost fake dating. Here for it. Sabrina has moved back home after a stint away in D.C., and she’s not looking forward to being back in her hometown. In part because there’s nothing but people who are going to be in her business, and in part because seeing ghosts and helping them with her unfinished business is also…everybody’s business. And she just wants to mind her own. But when she meets the new guy in town who runs a supper club, there’s something there that simply wasn’t there before. (Sorry. I had to.) Yadriel might be trying to convince his family that he’s worthy of training to be a brujo, but he’s also trying to prove it to himself. Either way, he’s now summoned a ghost while looking for a newly dead family member, and he can’t get rid of him, in any sense of the word. It doesn’t help that the guy is his age, and very cute. But he’s kind of annoying, and he won’t tell Yadriel the whole truth. So while the two of them try to get to the bottom of Julian’s death, they also get closer…until maybe Yadriel doesn’t want to send him into that good night. Anyway. This is a novella that features yet another person who does tours in a haunted area, but she kind of complains about the fact that the haunting is…kind of boring. Little does she know that the ghost hears every word and would like a word. They’ll get that chance sooner than he expects, when the complainer becomes a ghost herself.
