Thank you very much to the publishers and Netgalley for sending me an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review (I later bought my own copy of the book)!
Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.
So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.
And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.
Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.
Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.
After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
I need Ashley Poston to write romance novels forever. There is something she puts in these books that has me well and truly hooked. After reading The Dead Romantics I was so excited for there to be another magical romance. The Seven Year Slip lived up to and exceeded all of my expectations.
Six months ago, Clementine had the worst day of her life. So, she plans on staying busy, working hard and taking no risks to keep her heart safe and it seems to be working. Until one day, she finds a man standing in her kitchen. The kind of man that, before everything she could have fallen for. He’s perfect but he lives in the past. Seven years in the past, to be exact.
Sometimes with books, it takes me a few chapters to get into the story and connect with the characters. With The Seven Year Slip, I was hooked into the story immediately. I absolutely love the first line of this book and it gripped me instantly. The chapters are on the shorter side as well, so I couldn’t help but keep reading the book as I wanted to keep learning about Clementine and Iwan.
Our two main characters, Clemintine and Iwan are amazing. Both of them are vulnerable, funny and caring. We can see they are both extremely determined to live their lives out as they’ve planned. As the book progresses they learn more about how they actually want to live their lives and it was lovely to see them both grow individually and together.
The way grief is discussed in this book is beautiful. We see Clementine go through a range of emotions following the loss of her Auntie and how this affects her. It allows for all the characters to have important and necessary discussions about grief and how if can affect you in different ways. I’d love more books to discuss grief like this.
Also I loved how this book discusses who we think we are and will always be but how over time this can evolve. There are some things that we keep and other things that change about ourselves. All of this is discussed in a positive way which I enjoyed.
I loved the magical element that this book has around the apartment that Clementine is living in. Ashley Poston has written this is such a way that it feels like it could happen to any of us with our own apartments. Ashley has written a beautiful, magical and heart-warming love-story that I loved. I cannot wait to read more books by her.
Overall, The Seven Year Slip is an incredible romance novel that I would highly recommend picking up for yourself. You will be swept into Clementine’s magical apartment and won’t be able to put this book down.
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Great review! This one was lovely!
xoxo, tree
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