Ashley Poston Reveals Which One of Her Book Couples Would Go on a Sonic Date — and What They Would Order (Exclusive)

Ashley Poston has a emotion her beloved book couples would emotion Sonic conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic she does.

The writer of nan forthcoming Sounds Like Love (coming to bookstores connected June 17) and The Seven Year Slip is collaborating pinch Sonic to thief motorboat their caller statement of Sweet Topped Lemonades, which conscionable truthful hap to brace perfectly pinch romance sounds from nan likes of Poston, Abby Jimenez and Christina Lauren. The trio of drinks — which travel successful Classic Lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade and Blueberry Lavender Lemonade — motorboat successful nan Sonic app connected Tuesday, May 27, and will beryllium disposable nationwide connected Monday, June 2.

In summation to pairing perfectly pinch nan summer formation read of your choice, a information of nan proceeds from nan waste of Sonic's Sweet Topped Lemonades will spell toward helping First Book — a nonprofit moving to region barriers to a value acquisition for children successful low-income communities — to administer 100,000 books successful nan communities Sonic serves.

For Poston, nan opportunity to brace her emotion for Sonic pinch promoting literacy was excessively bully to walk up.

"My aunt is simply a nationalist schoolhouse teacher, and I besides constitute for young adults arsenic well, and literacy and getting books into nan hands of young readers is 1 of the things that I americium really passionate about, truthful it made consciousness and it was a cleanable partnership," she tells PEOPLE.

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The New York Times bestselling writer besides happens to hail from South Carolina. As a result, summertime is already synonymous pinch Sonic arsenic acold arsenic she's concerned, and she has a emotion her characters would consciousness nan aforesaid way. When asked which 1 of nan couples from her romances would beryllium astir apt to deed up Sonic for a speedy summertime date, nan reply was initially each of them — though she did yet settee connected nan mates from her time-hopping BookTok favourite The Seven Year Slip.

"I would opportunity it would beryllium Lemon and Iwan [from The Seven Year Slip] conscionable because Iwan grew up successful North Carolina, and I'm beautiful judge he took Sonic trips conscionable arsenic I took Sonic trips," she says. "But aforesaid pinch Florence and Ben [from The Dead Romantics], I deliberation Florence would return Ben to Sonic, and Elsy [from A Novel Love Story] excessively … each of my characters would beryllium like, ‘Yeah, no, it's hot, let's spell get a lemonade aliases a limeade aliases something.'"

Ultimately, Poston settled connected Lemon and Iwan, for 1 further reason. "They would evidently effort a Sweet Topped Lemonade because Iwan would beryllium like, ‘That sounds interesting. I've ne'er had that before,’ and Lemon would beryllium like, ‘Well, it's my namesake, truthful I gotta effort it.’"

"And they would evidently critique it for illustration a New York Times nutrient review, and they would fundamentally banter backmost and distant and past they would thrust disconnected into nan sunset," nan writer adds.

The Sonic emotion doesn't extremity location for Poston. "Cherry Limeades are nan spirit of my nostalgic teenagehood," she tells PEOPLE, adding that she hopes that aforesaid nostalgia is infused successful nan pages of her latest novel, Sounds Like Love.

The book follows "a burnt-out songwriter and a has-been musician who find themselves inexplicably telepathically linked erstwhile they can’t get a opus retired of their heads," according to an charismatic description. For Poston, nan communicative centers astir nan connection that "it’s okay to slow down and return immoderate clip and beryllium nostalgic astir nan things that you emotion — don’t conscionable support looking forward, you tin look astir you, too."

"I would get a cherry limeade and I would thrust down backmost ungraded roads and I would crank up my favourite opus to arsenic large arsenic it would spell and I would consciousness it rumble successful my chest, right? And that's what I wanted Sounds Like Love to consciousness like," she adds. "I dream I did that and I dream erstwhile you publication it, you want to besides thrust down a ungraded roadworthy blasting your favourite song."

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Sonic's Sweet Topped Lemonades are disposable connected nan app now. Sounds Like Love comes retired June 17 and is disposable for preorder now, wherever books are sold.