Ashley Poston’s first book, The Dead Romantics, was a fun read whose trajectory was a little expected. The Seven Year Slip, however, took me on an insanely unexpected ride with so much heart and emotion and love. I absolutely have had book-hangover since I read it and will continue to recommend it to everyone.

If you want a more magical version of The Lake House with a hot chef, this is your book. I couldn’t put it down and sobbed through the ending.

Thank you Berkley and NetGalley for the eARC of The Seven Year Slip. Gosh, I loved it so much. A tender and honest novel that gives equal weight to (1) a time-travel love story built on mutual encouragement and (2) the process of grieving losing a loved one to suicide. Poston balances these two elements with grace, humor, and just the right amount of sugary sweet romance. The food discussions will make you salivate, the side characters are a delight, and Iwan is the ultimate book boyfriend: a soft-hearted, tattooed hunk who loves to cook!

This was a wonderfully enjoyable book. I got sucked into Lemon and Iwan's story and was sad when it ended. I will say the author got really long winded at the end and I did skip a bunch of inner reflection because it went on way too long. I also would have enjoyed if they'd spent more time together. It amounted to a few days in the past, a few in the present and that isn't enough time to fall in love. However, even with these few annoyances, I still really enjoyed the book.

mark my words, this will be on my top 3 favorite books of the entire year!!! I loved it THAT much 🥹🥹

after absolutely adoring every word of THE DEAD ROMANTICS, I was beyond ecstatic to get my hands on ashley’s latest and greatest. THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP still has the magical realism elements that make her stories so unique and beautiful - but this time, it’s a magical apartment set in cozy uptown NYC!

clementine inherits her aunt’s apartment after she suddenly passes, only to discover that the apartment is truly magic and shifts back in time when she least expects it. enter: iwan, an aspiring chef and renter of the apartment from seven years ago who has all of the right things to say to clementine 🥹

the story itself was unlike anything I’ve ever read before! it was creative, cute and fluffy, downright LOL moments, and seriously made my stomach growl with all of the delicious food references.

however, it was truly clementine’s journey with iwan that got to me. I was HERE for their undeniable chemistry, their cute af banter, and all of the twists life threw at both of them! my heart is completely split open for these two ❤️❤️❤️

and reader, I bawled my eyes out at the entire last 15% of this one.

this is definitely a relatable story for me, dealing with grief and feeling very lost in life, but it brought me so many smiles and virtual hugs. stories like this exist to remind readers like me that we’re never alone in this big strange unforgivable world 💕

I cannot thank penguin random house and netgalley enough for virtually changing my life with this advanced copy!!! summer cannot come fast enough so I can get my hands on a physical copy!

rating: 5 stars (can it be 5 billion???)
wine pairing: knights valley cabernet sauvignon

✨https://youtu.be/4wJw2ewrJt8?t=44 - specifically 00:44-00:50✨

It’s really hard to talk about this book without a. staring dramatically out my window while wearing an unnecessarily oversized sweater b. turning into an emotional waterfall and c. SPOILING it, so for once in my life I’ll keep this review short and sweet. Maybe I’ll come back here closer to release day, but who’s to say...

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I didn’t think Ashley Poston could top The Dead Romantics, but I’ve been absolutely ravished. The Seven Year Slip is a magical time travel romance á la The Lake House: After moving into her late aunt’s apartment, Clementine finds her present overlapping with a handsome stranger’s past…and then she meets him again, seven years changed. It was charming and sweet, but also incredibly vulnerable, as it explored the after of losing someone dear and grieved the innocence of past selves in the before.

I loved how the timelines wove together to create a tapestry of their past and present selves. Clementine and Iwan’s relationship was a whirlwind of serendipity and sexy cooking. And god the YEARNING. The drama of it all coming back to the present was absolutely delicious. It’s set in the same world as The Dead Romantics, and we got to briefly see Benji and Florence because Clementine was a publicist at a rival house. Iwan put the sexy in sexy cooking because he was a HOT and TATTOOED chef. He could whip my peaks like a lemon meringue any day of the week.

Grab a box of tissues, DoorDash your emotional support dessert, and indulge in The Seven Year Slip. It’s an instant classic. If I could turn back time, I’d experience the first read rush all over again ✨

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶️.75*/5

*We got a couple of scenes and it was “spicier” than The Dead Romantics. The writing was still pretty vague…but he was a hot chef and the vibes were immaculate.


My mini playlist:
- If I Could Turn Back Time, Cher
- It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Céline Dion
- Hits Different, Taylor Swift
- All of the Girls You Loved Before, Taylor Swift
- Invisible String, Taylor Swift
- Leather and Lace (With Don Henley), Stevie Nicks
- Here You Come Again, Dolly Parton
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- Light On, Maggie Rogers
- Rose Colored Lenses, Miley Cyrus
- Seven Year Ache, Rosanne Cash (title vibes only lmao but I mean technically he was legit trying to cure that Seven Year Slip 😮‍💨)
- Hungry Eyes, Eric Carmen (he’s a chef, duh)
- The Louvre, Lorde (idk she likes art museums)



CWs: Suicide (off-page, recounted), dementia (grandparent, off-page recounted), grief

Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 stars

It is March and I have already found one of my top reads of 2023. Seven Year Slip is the follow-up to one of my all-time favorite reads (The Dead Romantics) and somehow Ashley Poston has written an even better love story. The Seven Year Slip has a bit of The Lake House vibe to it and is a heart-achingly beautiful love story. It follows Clementine, a book publicist grieving over the loss of her beloved aunt and at a crossroads in her life and career. After inheriting her aunt’s “magical” apartment, she comes home to an adorably quirky man, Iwan, one day in her kitchen. He is the kind of man Clementine could fall in love with..if he wasn’t from seven years ago. Turns out her aunt’s apartment is magical and she has fallen in love with a man from the past.

Only Ashley Poston could write in such a way that I completely buy into this premise and become instantly invested. Yes, the old “time traveling apartment” trope. This book repeatedly ripped my heart out and then put it back together. Clementine and Iwan are my precious cinnamon rolls and I want nothing but the best for them. This romance is full of vibes, angst, gorgeous writing, endearing characters, and VIBES. I want to live inside this book. This book is my new personality. I will never be over this book. All the stars.

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The dead romantics was one of my favourite books last year so to say i was excited for this book was an understatement. This blew me away and i was left wanting more. One of my absolute favourite things about this book is the relationship Clementine and her aunt had, there was so much love and i couldn’t help my fall in love with them. On the other hand, Iwan and Clementine, gosh they were so perfect and i loved the magic aspect of it, the alternating time periods were super well done. I’ll be thinking about this book for ages now, definitely one of my favourites. The only issue was there was a few mistakes and a bit of words missing!

this is now my new favorite book. i loved the dead romantics by this author so i was excited for this one.

but this book hit me and blew me away. it was magical and funny and real and poetic and romantic and beautiful from start to finish. i absolutely did not want it to be over. just wow. 6/5 stars. i am in complete adoration for how gorgeous the storytelling was. I want to immediately reread this.

I loved this book. Poston always writes great stories and this one somehow blends grief and romance so well! I loved the food details and felt that the apartment was truly alive and magical. I always look forwards to her next book! Thank you so much for this advanced copy!

The Seven Year Slip was somehow even better than The Dead Romantics. I absolutely loved Clementine, and I found the premise to be a really unique take on the contemporary romance genre.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the free e-copy.

“I felt starved- the wild girl I wanted to be but never quite was, the kind who yearned to devour the world one sensation at a time.”

Thank you to netgalley and Berkley for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

You know when you find a book that just fits into your soul like a long lost puzzle piece? Like it was always waiting for you and you for it? This is that book.

It was magical and dreamy and ever since I was a little girl I have been a sucker for time travel- in every form. I have dreamt about getting whisked away by a mad man in a box, about visiting a time I had only read about in history books. I never dreamt about a time traveling apartment but I’m glad it found me.

This book is a marvel. It is about grief, sadness but also love and smiles and adventure and joy. I saw a lot of myself in the pages of this book- little fragments of who I am found in the various characters of these pages. Like Clementine I am a painter- who wonders what color I would paint my lovers eyes, like her aunt I am someone who lives with a monster on her shoulder everyday of her life.

Ashley has a way of making anything seem possible with her words whether it be an apartment that can travel back seven years or about falling in love with a ghost. She makes the mundane seem exciting, makes you wish you could see the world through her characters eyes.

I absolutely love her repetition of key words and phrases. It is so lovely and done at the perfect, precise moments. I love how she will take a certain theme and twist it in on itself.
For example: her aunt says “I had memorized the freckles on her back, drawn them into constellations.” And later lemon says: “the freckles across his nose, specking his skin like constellations.” She uses parallel in her words with such beauty and intent. It is never wasted.

It is obvious this author put the whole of herself into these words and this story. There is a raw vulnerability in her writing,- I also saw in the dead romantics- and you can’t just find that any old piece of writing, but in this one it is evident.

Another parallel we find in this book and the dead romantics is that our main character is dealing with grief and it is such a gut wrenching and astonishing process- watching them both bloom and change despite the fact that they are both hurting.

I also love how she includes a love for books in each story she tells. After all, our love for books is why we read, why we write- why we do all of this- if only for a momentary escape.

Her characters go through so much growth and they are so real and raw, like you could pluck them out of the pages and befriend them, or just hold them for a long, long time and tell them they are safe and they healed you for the time you were able to spend in their existence.

I cannot wait to read this book again and again as I change and grow and bloom because this is one I will carry in my heart- and in my thoughts - for years to come.

“And here we all were, because if we all loved one thing, it was books.”

I adored this book - such a poignant story of grief and how time changes you as a person. I loved the Dead Romantics, so I knew I was going to love this one - and it fully met my expectations. Loved this romance, and can't wait to see what Ashley Poston does next. Thank you NetGalley and Berkley for this advanced copy!

SERIOUSLY ASHLEY?! One of my favorite authors! I love how her books explore a bit of paranormal and a LOT of romance, and it's just what I need in my life... something that suspends my disbelief for a moment but warms my heart completely. The sophomore slump can be real for authors, but I'm delighted to say it's not real for Ashley. She continues to deliver wonderful stories, and will continue to be an autobuy author for me!

I think Ashley's second adult romance is even better than her first! "The Seven Year Slip" is a captivating romance, but also a great story of how we change over time as people: our priorities, our ambitions, and what we continue to hold dear. I absolutely loved the main relationship. My only critique would be that the side characters felt a little weak.

Imagine falling in love with someone who lives seven years in the past. What heartbreaking torture that would be. 💔

The Dead Romantics was by far my favorite romance of 2022, so when I saw this one I KNEW I needed it in my life. I pulled it up on my kindle, sat down on the couch, and didn’t get up until it was done. (Are popcorn romances a thing? Because that’s what this is.)

It was good enough to keep my attention and care where the story was taking me, BUT (and I say don’t say this lightly) this was TOO predictable. Normally predictable books don’t bother me, but I could have told you this entire story ESPECIALLY with the spoilery chapter titles. (Please don’t do that.)

And maybe if this was set in like 1992 would this work a lot more, but with cell phones and internet and all that, it was a little too unrealistic. Like sure, bad cell service, but I be damned if I don’t google or text once I leave the apartment.

I’m sorry, but this was a three star for me.

I liked parts of this one, so it's a bit difficult to rate and review. The whole concept of a slip in time was so intriguing to me – I'm a big fan of the movie The Lake House, flaws and all – but there were quite a lot of holes in The Seven Year Slip and I think it hurt the story overall. Like, it was so close to being great.

It didn't feel like Clementine and Iwan spent all that much time together. This was borderline 'second chance romance,' and I already have difficulty with those (sorry if I sound like a broken record there!). I did like that Clementine acknowledged (eventually), that he had changed from the Iwan she knew. There just wasn't enough time in the book where we get to see Clementine getting to know present-day Iwan, for me to easily get on board with their connection, love, etc.

There were some things I felt were somewhat plothole-ish, or there was no explanation for why a character did a 360 in their actions. [(spoiler removed)]

Anyways. I liked the idea of this book. Not completely sold on the execution.

Sweet, surprising and utterly enjoyable. A recommended purchase for collections where romantic fiction is popular.

This book surprised me in all the best ways. I adored The Dead Romantics, released last year, but I think I might just love this book a little bit more.

As with the Dead Romantics, this is another grief book, set in a magical apartment in the modern day, with seven-year slips in time. This is also a romance, with a lovely developing relationship between a grieving book publicist and a charming, ambitious chef. Clementine works for a small but mighty publisher and loves her job. She’s also very good at it. She works with her two closest friends, and they are great at keeping her social life full and her mind off of the death of her beloved aunt. But she is still grieving and misses the vibrant, outgoing woman who was also her travel partner and best friend.

Aunt Analea had always told her stories of her magical apartment, which often slips seven years back and forth in time to bring people together. But it’s not until Clementine comes home from work to the apartment her aunt left her after her death and finds a handsome stranger casually hanging out that she realizes the magic is real. Iwan is staying for the summer at her aunt’s invitation and is looking for a job in the city. It doesn’t take long for Clementine to realize she has slipped seven years into the past.

This is such an intricate, complex story. Time slips back and forth, meeting a soulmate in his past life, and then finding him in present-day only to realize that he has lived seven years of experiences and is a different person. Clementine, or Lemon, falls in love with Iwan between getting-to-know-you conversations, intimate dinners, and sensual kisses. But she never knows what time period she’ll be in when she enters her front door. Then she meets a chef with who her publishing company desperately wants to sign to a deal, and she discovers that the Iwan from her seven-year slip in time has accomplished all his dreams in the years since, and she doesn’t know what to do with that.

I absolutely adored the romance in this story, but what I truly loved is the relationship between Clementine and her aunt. Clem’s memories of her aunt and their time together lend sweetness and a sense of enchantment to the story, and her journey through the stages of grief as she reconciles those memories and feelings with the way her aunt died were both heartwarming and sad. But I loved that she embraced such pure love and acceptance from someone so important to her, and was able to see that in the end her aunt, even with all of her boldness and daring, was still just a woman who experienced love and loss, ups and downs.

I think the ending and HEA were just about perfect, and I enjoyed the little surprise at the identity of a certain character who was important to Analea. I gobbled this book up in one day and have not one single regret at all the things I set aside to make that happen. The Seven Year Slip was a lovely surprise and I read the last word with a smile on my face.

Highly recommend.

This book is instantly a favorite. 🥹

I loved The Dead Romantics so I was thrilled to read this ARC.

Ashley Poston is definitely an auto-buy author for me now. The way she balances deep topics with a feel-good, witty romance is incredible. Her characters are so loveable but I think what makes them for me is how real they feel. They're swoon worthy but also messy and just trying to find their way through life.

The Seven Year Slip focuses on a "magical apartment" that can randomly slip through time. As the two love interests find their way to and from each other, you are instantly hooked. I found myself laughing at their dry humor and then tearing up a few pages later.

This book is so special in regards to the way grief and finding your passion in life plays a role in this plot. It's fast paced, heart warming, and just overall enjoyable!

Also the cutest tidbit if you read Dead Romantics 🤫

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC. Immediately going to preorder this now!

This one started a little slow, but once you got about midway I could not put it down. I love the premise and the characters. I could tell all of the "twists" from the beginning, but it was still an enjoyable ride. I liked the author's first, "The Dead Romantics" better, but this was good, too. I can't wait to see what she writes next.