Single, successful and....ghosted? This book has girl power written all over it - navigating the dating world and the complications that are sprinkled throughout the process. It was a good read - enjoyable for summer reading for sure!

I absolutely adored Ghosts by Dolly Alderton and found it to be completely relatable. This was the first book I have read from Dolly Alderton and I loved her writing style. I found myself so drawn to the characters and their stories, especially Nina Dean. At one point I thought Ghosts and the life of Nina Dean was written as a memoir.

Nina Dean is in her early thirties and is a successful food writer, published author, friend, and daughter. On the outside it would seem Nina is living the life she has perfectly curated for herself, but on the inside Nina is searching for more. Over the course of a year we follow Nina through new relationships, changes to old relationships, and navigating the world of online dating in her thirties.

I completely adore the character of Nina and I think her story is so similar to so many women today. I absolutely loved her authenticity in her relationships and found it easy to empathize with her character. I would absolutely recommend this book.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me the chance to read this ARC.

Great book, love this author and how they can keep my attention to the end! The plot is well developed, characters are believable and they obviously paid attention to detail to make the story worth your time to read.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy of this novel. This book had a little bit of everything from romance to family drama to real life situations which we have all found ourselves in at some point. I enjoyed that I could both laugh out loud and tear up all in the same chapter as well. This book has so many relatable aspects, for me at least, that it made it super quick to breeze through and enjoy.

Not my usual genre but having heard so much about this book I really had to read it, Well I’m so glad I read this fantastic book, it really sucked me right in and I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Dolly Alderton is such a wonderful writer. This book isn't the fastest-paced, but it's worth it because you get to spend more time with the author's beautiful prose. I think every woman will see a bit of herself in this book.

This one slipped past me last year. It isn't a badly written book by any means, but the plot is trying to do too much and nothing that hasn't been done before all at once. The writing style and presentation are fine, and I admire Alderton for trying to combine a comedic "30s something woman doesn't need a man but wants a man" and the struggle of helping a loved one with mental decline and such a brutal disease. I simply couldn't relate to Nina enough to care about anything she was facing.
I can see why others, particularly fans of the romantic comedy genre would love this book, and while I consider myself a casual fan of the genre, even after buying this and pushing myself to finish it, this one just didn't hit it out of the park for me.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for an eGalley of this work in exchange for my honest review.

Putting pronouns in one's bio, even as a cis person, is helpful because it normalizes this practice and helps to reduce the stigma. I hope this mention was entirely corrected before publication.

I finally got around to reading this one while scrolling through my kindle for a romance, but a deeper romance with more conflict and serious themes. I’m so conflicted on this one; on one hand, I loved Nina and everything she was and stood for (expect Max; he’s disgusting!!!). On the other, I found this to move very slow and the plot a little boring. This book brought up some memories of dating and it reminded me of how scary, toxic, and absolutely WEIRD dating can be. This book had good parts but ultimately it fell a little flat for me.

While this is not your typical love story, it has some cute moments as well as some funny moments. I did find it pretty slow in parts though. ⭐⭐⭐

Thank you Knopf and NetGalley for the gifted ebook of Ghosts! All opinions in this review are my own.

Ghosts took me a little while to get into at first, but eventually I came to really care for Nina. I feel like this is a pretty accurate account for any women trying to date men in their late 20s or early 30s, or even for women who are not on the marriage/baby track.

While I didn't agree with all of her decisions, I still enjoyed Nina's escapades traversing the dating world.

Thank you for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review:

To whoever said this was "laugh out loud funny" I suppose our sense of humor is different.

I was intrigued by the premise of this book. A 30-year-old female is missing something in life: love.

There were hints of romance, hints of humor, but those were both elements that are forgettable. What isn't is Alderton's look at the human experience. Fans of Sally Rooney will appreciate this book and all that it contains.

This book was so gorgeous and completely engrossing. A great voice and really compelling look at modern dating, your early 30s and the what it feels like to almost fall in love. A great read for fans of Sally Rooney.

I expected a sort of rom com with this one, but it's truly much deeper. Getting into relationships of all sorts. Of the trauma of being "ghosted" to self awareness, to aging parents. This is a reflection on a year in a life of love and growth. A deeply thought provoking novel.

Effortless reading made this book a very quick and absorbing story to inhale and enjoy over a weekend. Smart, clever and serious, witty and wicked.

Sweet romance story that shows how true love can come through no matter what takes place in their lives and how love brings them together whether they are “ghosted” or not.

There’s a particularly heinous level of hell reserved exclusively for single women in their thirties. If you’ve visited it yourself, you know. And if you haven’t, Dolly Alderton has written a book to give you a tour.

Wow! There is a lot of story here. I enjoyed Nina and how she handled all the things happening in her life. The writing is wonderful and I hope you will too.

I did so identify with the main character of this novel. She uses a dating app and locates what seems to be Mr. Right. Everything is perfect until he "ghosts" her. He disappears without a word. Her life has collapsed. I, too, have a bit of experience with a dating app. There was the funny guy who forgot to mention that he had a still-married current wife who was not well in an upstairs bedroom. He thought I would be content as his side chick. Me? You have got to be from another planet. And then there was the man/boy who was still trolling around as fanboy of a 60's elderly rock group. Let's move into the current century, please. So, yes, this book was familiar. It's a fast read and fun. My thanks to the author and NetGalley for a complimentary copy.

A very eventful life in the year of Nina Dean sees her loose touch with long time friends and grow closer to others. Nina has spent the last several years in a relationship that ended amicably and now this food writer/cookbook writer has her life in order and is looking for a new relationship. So on her birthday she listens to her chronically "dating" friend and signs up for a dating app. Very quickly Nina meets Max and things move very fast. All of sudden, a few months into dating, Max ghosts Nina and at the same time other parts of her life start to fall apart. First, her father is getting more ill. Then, her best friend all her life moves away. And finally, her downstairs neighbor is causing a war to brew.

This is definitely a story about how life can sometimes hit you all at once with good and then bad but we can all find out ways through it and be better as a result. I was not sure what to expect going into this book but I definitely enjoyed it.