I just wanna state that I am a sucker for romantic comedies like this book. This book read to me like the modern version of You’ve Got Mail. I smirked at the witty banter and the obvious flirtationship between the two main characters and cringed at their denial of said flirtationship.

I just didn’t find the circumstances that the main characters found themselves in (or how they handled them) to be very realistic. For example, the reasons they don’t get along, their future concerns, or their past trauma seemed so exaggerated. I also found it especially bothersome that throughout the book that neither of the main characters could find it remotely possible that the other was into each other.

I really liked the first 2/3 of the book leading up to the “climax” and then wished the rest of the book could’ve been condensed down to fewer chapters.

Overall, I like the book and rate it a four because it still made me feel all tingly inside.

Ghosting is a super fun modern romance story that fans of Jasmine Guillory and Kerry Winfrey will love. Ghosting is a rom-com set in New York City with tons of references to NYC hot spots. The descriptions firmly plant you in the cafes and restaurants the characters visit. Part Cyrano, part You've Got Mail, this is going to be a big summer read that everyone will be talking about on vacation. It's sweet, charming, heartfelt, and contemporary! Tash Skilton will become a fan favorite just like Christina Lauren.

This was such a slow burn, but it was so worth it. We follow Miles and Zoey who are both ghostwriters for competitive companies who help their clients fall in love, it was funny to see them interacting in real life vs. the two of them online. So I thought this was a unique telling as I had no clue people hired ghostwriters for their dating profile! (I now will question everyone who has an online dating profile!)

Zoey is an L.A. girl and has a hard time adjusting to her new life in New York, while Miles on the other hand just found out his ex-fiance is pregnant. The two of them ended things 6 weeks prior and it seems that his ex is much further along. I liked how both parties have their own issues, but over the course of the story were able to work through them.

Okay, so the few things I hated about this book (and honestly it wasn't much), I hated Zoey's parents - the entire scene where she meets up with them made me want to scream. Also, I wasn't a big fan of Jordan (Miles' ex) - near the end of the book, she is having second thoughts about having children with her baby daddy (SPOILER and runs back to Miles asking him for a second chance).

*I would like to thank NetGalley and publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this modern take on Cyrano. I thought the main characters were great and I enjoyed the banter between them. I feel like this is a love story that is actually going on somewhere in the world. This also has all the things that make a good rom-com. There is heartbreak, laughter, disaster and love. My one critique for this book comes at the beginning of almost all the chapters. Zoey and Miles work for different ghostwriting companies. The owners of each company used to be married and are now divorced. Most of the chapters open with an email from one of owners to their employees. While I did enjoy reading the emails I didn't feel like they really added anything to the story and were ultimately unnecessary except to connect Aisha (Miles' cousin). I think the story would have flowed just fine without them. This would make a great beach read! Available May 26, 2020!
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Thank you to Kensington Books for providing me with an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
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Rating: 3.5/5

I received an ARC of this from @netgalley and @Kensingtonbooks for an honest review.

I really liked this book, don't really get the ghostwriting for someone to trying to fall in love, but it came across pretty good in the book. I understand Zoey hesitation for everything new, am like that in a lot of ways. Miles could possibly be my new book boyfriend, he seems perfect in a lot of ways, and really romantic. I would definitely recommend this book for everyone, only one slightly steamy scene, but I don't think it was that smutty.

Thanks to @netgalley and @Kensingtonbooks for the opportunity to read this wonderful book before it comes out.

I was delighted by this book! It was reminiscent of Cyrano, feeding lines to people hoping to fall in love with each other, told from the perspectives of the ghost writers. There were some really funny moments and some really sweet moments and I can easily picture it as a movie or a miniseries. I enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it to my friends. Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

5 stars for this fun book!

(Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing the ARC) ✨

Zoey was from LA who was sent to New York by her boss, Mary Clarkson, so she could find and be herself. Mary wanted Zoey to explore the world and have a life so Zoey can stop making excuses like, “I have to work”. Also, her side jobs is as a ghostwriter for the Sweet Nothing company under Clifford Jenkins.

Miles was the top ghostwriter if Tell It To My Heart under Leanne Tseng—Clifford’s ex-wife. Miles also is a local New Yorker who kept encouraging Zoey to give NY a chance before she leaves it behind.

However, before they became friends-to-lovers, they were first frenemies because they were competing with each other over who gets the best table at Cafe Crudité. Story happened, and little did they know that they were ghostwriting each other. When they figured it out, quite a turn of event.

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I enjoyed this RomCom so much, i couldn’t put it down because the banter’s were just so fun to read. Also i cannot stress enough how much I LOVE THE FILIPINO REFERENCES they used because I am one!!! (And yes, I am biased but still their descriptions are on-point!)

And, i hate three characters in this book: Zoey’s mom & dad, and Jordan. Zoey’s parents were awful. PLAIN AWFUL. They were so insensitive and all they think about is themselves. Although they had dinner with Zoey during her birthday, they still acted like sh*t. Jordan is just plain b**ch. You do something like that and you want to back out? THAT’S NOT HOW LIFE WORKS WOMAN, YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU DID IT!!!

Anyway, i would totally recommend this book to anyone who wants a good RomCom read! Happy reading!

Book Review
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Ghosting | by Tash Skilton
Pub Date: 5/26/20
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RATING: 3/5
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REVIEW: The concept of this book is super cute, I am always down for an enemies to lovers trope. This book I thought was just OK. While Zoey and Miles’ banter was cute and enjoyable to read, I didn’t feel the strong attraction/internal struggle not to want the other one between the characters. Like if they were to just end up as friends in the end it would have made sense too. I did really love how sweet Miles was and the relationship between Zoey and Mary as well!
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Thank you @netgalley and @kensingtonbooks for the eARC to read and give my honest review!
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This books comes out on May 26th!

This book helped me get through my covid19 reading block. I read through it and really enjoyed it. There was a lot of stuff that the reader is privy to that the characters are not, so that was fun!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and I am so glad I did.

This was just the right book to come out at just the right time, breaking me out of a long pandemic reading slump. Ghosting: A Love Story combines so many of my favorite things: Alternate POV, an enemies to lovers storyline, and a perfect NY setting. Add to that a Cyrano de Bergerac love story and it has the all the elements for a great read.

The characters are likable and engaging and the banter is witty and clever.

Recommended for anyone looking for a fun read, without being weighed down by heavy plot or melodrama.

This is an adorable story about two ghost writers who work for competing companies who’s job is to set up their clients. What they don’t expect is to fall in love with said client. Meanwhile in real life Zoey and Miles can barely stand each other. Zoey begrudgingly befriends Miles and while talking it clicks that Miles is her clients love interest. They realize they are in love with each other and live happily ever after.

This book was definitely a mixed bag for me. First, I enjoyed the setup. Having both Miles and Zoey work as ghostwriters for rival dating sites, sprucing up client profiles and stepping in to carry on the initial text/email communication between clients was a pretty unique idea. When they are assigned by their respective companies to work for clients who end up connecting with each other, they start a fun, flirty relationship with neither of them having any idea that they are texting with each other rather than with their client's potential love interest.

Unfortunately, as the book continued on, I found myself more invested in the relationship between the two clients, Bree and Jude, who were managing to make a real connection in spite of how badly Miles and Zoey were performing their jobs, then I was with the primary relationship between Miles and Zoey. The middle of the book kind of dragged on and I kept wondering when their mutual deception would finally be revealed. In real life, Zoey and Miles had in fact already met and had taken a real dislike to each other. I'm not a fan of the enemies to lovers trope, so I found this part of the book pretty slow going.

Finally, in the final fourth or so of the book, Zoey and Miles started to recognize their attraction to each other IRL and the book became fun again and had a great ending. Normally, I like a slow burn, but this was just a bit too slow for me. I also had some problems with the book formatting which I really hope are corrected in the final copy. Specifically, there were no formatting tags to indicate when the characters were texting with each other. Since a fair amount of the book was conducted through text, I found this very confusing and it definitely affected my enjoyment of the book. Overall, I liked it but didn't love it.

Ghosting: I love story has inspired me to search out the backlist from its author(s). Tash Skilton is the pen name of Sarah Skilton and Sarvenaz Tash. While I’ve never read anything from the authors before, the writing style for this novel has inspired me. The story was so easy to get lost into, the humor appalled to me, and I want more.

The story is an enemy to lovers romance between Zoey and Miles, two ghostwriters who help people date online by chatting with matching, and setting up dates.

I loved everything about the romance, the characters, and, again, the writing style.

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed reading this book. The idea of a company that takes care of your flirting online sounds really cool taking into consideration that not everyone it's that good with words. I mean, I would have never imagine such thing could be a job but now that I have heard of it sounds amazing!

Miles was such a nice character, life has been hard on him but he tries to find a way to move on no matter how hard it turns out to be. While Zoey likes very much her comfort zone, and I saw myself in her. She's really used to her routine, to keeping her business to herself and going through life in peace. But it is also truth that there are times when we can not have everything under control, so even if Mary seems a little weird I liked her, she wanted what was best for Zoey and helped her find her way. I wish everyone got a chance to meet a Mary in his/her life.

The authors created characters that felt pretty real and put them into situations anyone could live, and that's what makes of this a great book. At the beginning I felt like the story was a little slow, but it gets a really good rhythm soon and it get pretty interesting. I'm number one fan of romance, so of course I love the way the love story developed.

I would like to highlight the ghosting thing, it's something that happens a lot in real life and I loved that the authors tried to make us understand how bad is to practice ghosting, if you don't want to talk to someone anymore, do tell them! It's awful to feel like you did something wrong, to not know what happened, so please be a good person and never do it!

In summary, this is a book I would totally recommend to people who enjoy reading love stories as much as I do. I found it to be a really creative story that got me eager to find out how everything was going to turn out.

Thank you Kensington Books and Netgalley for this arc.

I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Its a story about two ghostwriters from rival dating companies, both based in New York. They have a love and hate relationship, and both began to develop some sort of attraction with the person they are trying to set up their clients, and then their own love story begins.

I am not familiar with ghostwriters, so this story is intriguing to me. Miles and Zoey seem to have a balance of similarities and differences, and that makes them perfect to have a relationship. All the characters are developed individually and not just romantically, and I think that is great. The story is charming and funny.

Thank you to Kensington Books and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I had high expectations for this book and it met each and every one of them. A Cyrano inspired romance, a twist of modern dating, and New York City all meet for this romance. I whole heartedly recommend if you're interest in

Enemies to lovers
Zoey, still recovering from childhood trauma, a recent transplant to New York who has trouble moving beyond her safe home circle
Miles, dumped after learning his fiancé was pregnant, is trying to mend his rom-com loving heart
Ghostwriting for internet dating
Flirting/Fighting over a cafe table
A secret hotel that no one can find, that has questionable lighting
Close proximity
A slow burn that is worth the wait

I am now desperate to see Undersea and meet Mary, I'll get over the fact that they're not real at some point. Despite taking part in a real place, this book crafted amazing supporting characters. Miles was refreshing, a male character who knew what he wanted out of life, including children, loved love, and wasn't embarrassed about it. I really enjoyed how each chapter started with the work e-mails adding another fun, snarky spin to the story, a great device to move the plot forward.

I hadn't heard anything about this book when I downloaded the advanced copy via NetGalley so I didn't know what to expect. It was so much more enjoyable that I had expected. I loved the characters and their flaws and how they lost and found themselves. Highly recommend.

In Ghosting: A Love Story, Miles and Zoey work for rival dating sites, where they feed lines to their clients in order to woo potential love matches. Miles, recently dumped by his pregnant fiancé, and Zoey, sent to New York from LA by her eccentric boss, meet at a coffeeshop and engage in a rivalry over the best table in the shop. Unbeknownst to them, they’ve already met – their clients on each respective dating site are dating eachother. In this fun twist on a modern-day Cyrano, Miles and Zoey slowly start to fall for eachother, without realizing who the other person is!

This story was SO CUTE. It is a slow burn, but I didn’t mind it at all. You get to dive deep into Zoey’s and Miles’s motivations and desires before they meet eachother, which sets up a really strong story. I also loved being able to truly understand Zoey’s relationship with her parents and Mary, while also seeing Miles’s relationship with his own parents and his cousin Aisha. It makes every character three dimensional, instead of just using people as a way to move the plot along or provide basic support to the main characters. Miles and Zoey have such distinct personalities, and it’s fun reading their quips and snide remarks directed toward eachother. Lastly, while this story draws heavy inspiration from Cyrano de Bergerac, it doesn’t feel overdone and dry and instead creates a fun, new narrative.

Ghosting: A Love Story is perfect for fans of Tweet Cute, or the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for loaning me a copy in exchange for my review!

I want to thank Netgalley for providing me with this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book was adorable. I was pulled in by the synopsis and couldn’t stop reading until I finished it. I love the main characters. Zoe reminded me a lot of myself and I really loved reading her journey. Miles was equally amazing and totally adorable. I enjoyed reading their story. The dialogue was hilarious and I found myself laughing out loud a few times which is always a sign of an awesome book for me. The whole storyline was amazingly done it didn’t feel rushed or slow it flowed perfectly.
I gave this book 4 stars.

This was so cute! I did not want to put it down.

Miles and Zoey had the perfect meet-cute/meet-ugly, as well as great backgrounds and baggage to fully flesh them out. I got annoyed at Miles occasionally (there were moments where he was just downright mean to Zoey), but, ugh, their banter was so fun. And I would love to know more about Mary - she was a delight! I think she could (should?) have her own book. The same for Evelynn (is her entire cafe vegan or is that just the "vookies" because if she is...I want more of her story). Really, I found all of the side characters and what they had going on to be enjoyable (or insufferable, case in point Zoey's parents).

Honestly, my only real complaint (and this might have just been a formatting issue) was that at times, it was hard to distinguish texts/messages and thoughts.

Other than that, Ghosting really checked just about all of my boxes!