I mourn the years they lost, the time that was wasted, the love that maybe just wasn’t quite enough to overcome his demons sooner. When I started seeing all the rave reviews from friends start to roll in, I knew I had to read it pronto. I just felt so awful for the heroine over how damn selfish, inconsiderate, and self absorbed the hero was.

And”—he paused, looked suddenly uncertain—“and I know it’s maybe a bit soon, but after you’ve told me your life story and I’ve cooked sausages that may or may not be edible, I want us to have a serious conversation about the fact that you live in California and I live in England. And wasn’t he planning to even cancel his vacation to stay with her – something she now regrets insisting that he not do. Set to film scenes for his next movie in nearby NYC, Kennedy is anxious about the likelihood that he will attempt to reenter her life again.Unbidden my memory fast-forwarded a few more minutes to the moment I actually met Eddie, and misery and confusion tangled like weeds over everything else. I laughed, and he kissed my nose, and I wondered how it was that you could spend weeks, months— years, even—just chugging on, nothing really changing, and then, in the space of a few hours, the script of your life could be completely rewritten. The heroine went through so much pain and heartache over this guy and I didn’t feel like he did anything to deserve her or their child’s forgiveness.

Thanks, again, to Walsh’s strength as a storyteller, readers naturally became attached to these characters.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I’m not a fan of romance but the idea of being ‘ghosted’ by someone who seemingly had no reason to disappear / ignore you was kinda intriguing. All the pain and neglect she went through when they were younger and then years later he just waltz back in like nothing happened? From her debut novel, A Kind of Intimacy, Ashworth's work has explored physical discomfort, violence and sexual misadventure.

I know lots of readers are loving it, and lots of readers are connecting enough to get emotional from it -- so it definitely could be a "it's just me, and not you" thing going on. Told through a combination of letters and prose threading in and out of time, this novel will have readers ready to go back and reread it from the start. I desperately wanted this couple to work out their issues, but I couldn't blame Kennedy for her bitterness and lack of faith in Jonathan. Overall, Ghosted leans towards the ambiguous and uncertain, but in a way that makes any alternative pathway from her initial premise feel unnatural and stilted. There are moments in Ghosted that are at once terrifying and blackly humorous; at its core is a saturating sadness.You become so committed to their ultimate happiness, in fact, that you don’t even care that Walsh lead you astray multiple fucking times.