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𝘼𝙣 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚…𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩.

📍 Read if you like:
• Second Chance
• Time Travel
• Magical Realism
• Mention Of Foods

I have seen so many incredible reviews on this book, I am most definitely in the minority, however, I just didn’t love it as much as I wanted to. I read The Dead Romantics last year and really enjoyed it. I loved the premise behind this book and I knew it was going to focus on grief quite a bit, but I just didn’t feel as connected to the story.

It did take a bit for me to get intrigued, I’m not sure if it was the audiobook, but I just found the beginning to be too slow IMO. While I do appreciate what the author did and completely understand the glowing reviews, I did struggle at first with the story.

After a while, I did begin to enjoy the story a bit more. I really liked both characters, but the ending felt too rushed. Also, the magical realism and time travel aspect of the book weren’t my fav.

I didn’t completely dislike this book. As I mentioned, I enjoyed the premise and I knew grief was going to be a common theme throughout the book. I didn’t tear up, which I honestly wasn’t expecting to.

Overall, this wasn’t my fav, but I still enjoyed the book as a whole. I wish the ending wasn’t as rushed as it took me a while to get intrigued. However, I completely understand why so many will love this one and the audience this book gravitates to.

Thank you so much NetGalley and Berkley for the review copy and PRH Audio for the ALC in exchange for my honest review!

•𝗧𝗪/𝗖𝗪: Grief, Suicide, Death, Sexual Content, Pregnancy

One of my favorite reads from this year. It was charming and funny. While it was predictable, I fell in love with the way the author left Easter eggs though out the book.

And I thought I loved the dead romantics - but 😳!

Gahhh I love Ashley Poston so much - and this concept was so incredible. We all talk about meeting someone at the wrong time but this book takes it to a whole new level and is just perfect. But what if it happened literally but 7 years wrong as far as timeline? And an apartment is what brings the two of you together? Bending time and space and adding just the right dash of magical realism to romance - I love love love The Seven Year Slip.

Ashley Poston can do no wrong! Seriously, the way she writes these romances is life changing. This book was magical and perfect and my heart bursts with love! Clementine was also my girl and I loved her to bits!

Ashley Poston must love unconventional relationships, and you know what? I can get behind that! Why would I want yet another story about two mostly normal people falling in love, when I can have a ghost in The Dead Romantics and a sweet guy who randomly appears in the MC’s magical, time-slip apartment in this one? C’mon … you’ve gotta be at least a little curious!

Book publicist Clementine West has inherited her free-spirited Aunt Analea’s apartment after her unexpected death. She’s reeling from the loss of her confidante and travel buddy, with whom she’d go on adventures all over the world. Being in the apartment now is a stark reminder of her loss and she’s left only with memories and the two rules Analea left her about the apartment:

One: Always take your shoes off by the door and … Two: NEVER fall in love.

Analea always told Clementine that the apartment was magical and shared how she fell in love with someone she met during one of the apartment’s slips into a time seven years prior. Clementine has always been skeptical of the stories from her fanciful aunt until one day she opens the door of Apartment B4 (see what Poston did there? 😉) and finds a handsome, humble, auburn-haired man in the apartment now decorated with her aunt’s possessions from seven years ago.

After her initial shock, Clementine eventually lets this man, Iwan, stay since her aunt gave him permission to use the apartment while she’s traveling (she’s still alive seven years prior). Over the days, they talk and laugh, he cooks delicious food for her, and so begins the breaking of rule number two!

As her apartment unpredictably bounces Clementine … or Lemon … as Iwan likes to call her, back and forth in time and fate makes their paths cross now seven years later, will she like this new Iwan, who now goes by his formal name James Ashton? Will he still like her? Her publishing company has all their hopes set on him now that he’s a highly successful chef shopping his new book, and her choices may make or break things for everyone who’s depending on her!

This is such a charmer. So fun, so sweet, full of likeable characters, palpable chemistry and some touching moments as well. There is one potential trigger - suicide, but it’s dealt with sensitively. The story explores who we are initially and who we become over time, what identities we keep and which we evolve into, and who can’t relate to that, even without a magical time-slipping home?

If you want a thoughtful and swoony romance with a little touch of magic, I highly recommend this. Ashley Poston has become a go-to author for me!

★★★★ ½

This was such a beautiful story. By the time I got to the Author’s note I was truly in tears. I loved the contrast of knowing someone both in the past and present and trying to realize they are the same person even if it feels like they’ve changed. I loved the parallel story of fate between Clementine and her aunt and how fate always has something up it’s sleeve.

Listen I am absolute trash for anything that deals with a time warp of any sort, and this was no different.

This book was complex, and really forced me to put in my thinking cap and pay close attention as I read to really fit all the puzzle pieces together. I loved Lemon in all her quirky goodness. I loved the “right person, wrong time” vibes and trying to figure out how it was all going to work out in the end.

AP did such an amazing job with this story, and I and such a forever fan.

This book solidifies Ashley Poston as an auto-buy author for me. The way she writes is relatable, but she also adds in lines that are beautiful gems.
She nails messy characters that are flawed and human and trying their best.
In this book, Clementine is toiling away with tunnel vision on her goal of becoming her boss's successor in their publishing house.
Her manic pixie dream girl of an aunt has passed away, leaving Clementine her apartment in New York. It's not just any apartment. It's "magical." Clementine doesn't believe that old story until she finds herself transported back in time seven years, where she meets a man who is about to change her life.
This book is written with heart, and depth, and humanity and was an absolute joy to read. It isn't a fluffy little romcom, it also dives into the broken parts of human life and the struggles her characters face. Poston gets the balance right and this book is a five star read for me this year. Can't wait to see what she does next.

I have been sick the last few days and I kid you not, the Seven Year Slip is the only thing that got me through! I can confidently say this will be my favorite romance read of the year. Ashley Posten’s writing is quirky, charming and incredibly thoughtful, as are her characters.

Sometimes I think a review can give too much away and with the Seven Year Slip there is so much I cannot WAIT for you to find out about Clementine and Iwan and I don’t want to ruin it for you. It's not just them, it's also Drew and Fiona and Clementine’s Aunt Analea. It's the New York City landscape and the food! Gosh, I really need to find myself some lemon pie!

The premise of this book is so unique and interesting and I had so much nostalgia and good vibes reading it. Can you imagine time traveling and falling in love with someone who lives 7 years in the past? Contemporary romance mixed with magical realism is my favorite kind of read and it was so fun to think about that and follow along on Clementine’s journey. If I could, I would time travel in a heartbeat. To see those I have loved and lost or to catch a glimpse of past or future me, I would LOVE that! Also, Aunt Analea reminded me so much of my beautiful and daring Grandmother. She has so much spirit and spunk and tenderness and definitely makes my list of favorite characters of all time.

Slimilary to the Dead Romantics, the Seven Year Slip has beautiful exploration of grief. Posten makes grief an open conversation allowing the reader to heal a little bit through the characters. Grief is complicated and messy, there are highs and lows and the way that is depicted in this story is very well done. I think there needs to be more of those conversations as so many of us struggling with grief are just looking for understanding and support.

I will miss these characters tremendously and although I often don't re-read books, I will with this one. I also really recommend you read the Authors Note. Polsten’s vulnerability is inspirational and I think more of us should be transparent like that.

Thank you so much @berkely for the opportunity to read and review this book. It stole my heart.

I am just obsessed with Ashley Poston. I loved the Dead Romantics and the magical, ghost element, and now, this one with there being a seven year gap between our characters when they meet, it adds such an interesting layer. Especially with the grief and all the connections. This book was so good, and I urge you to read both it and the Dead Romantics. Ashley Poston's writing is incredibly compelling and emotional and I can't wait to see what comes next.

Ashley Piston has quickly become a must read author for me. She has the ability to make character relatable and interesting while being grounded and real yet paranormal.

Thank you SO MUCH to Berkley Romance, PRH Audio, and Netgalley for providing advanced copies of this! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.

Content warnings: death of a loved one, suicide (off page, prior to story), grief

I feel like I've talked about this book nonstop on all my platforms since finishing it. Because it's a amazing. And you should pick it up.

This follows our heroine who's apartment supposedly has the ability to send someone back to the past. But only exactly 7 years, and only when you're at a crossroads in your life. While the heroine is battling grief after the loss of her aunt, she discovers that the stories are true and meets the man who spent the summer in the apartment 7 years ago. She knows the rule is to never fall in love, but the chemistry between them is undeniable.

This will easily be in my top favorite books of the year. I think Ashley Poston does so many cool & unique things with her adult romance plots. Her mix of slight fantasy with classic romance trope faves, is a recipe for perfection.

This one is essentially The Lake House meets Doctor Who (during the River Song era).

The way timelines were utilized made for such a wonderful romance with built in angst and tension. Making the chemistry between these characters even stronger, knowing their time together was limited.

But beyond the fun fantastical elements, swoony romance, and unique plot, the way that Ashely Poston handled grief was just as wonderful in here as it was in Dead Romantics. (And I HIGHLY recommend reading the author's note at the end!)

It was heavy and heartbreaking. But watching our heroine move through her trauma and grief was also beautiful and empowering.

I just can't get enough of this author's romances. And I definitely can't wait to pick up whatever she releases next!

“That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn't something you could plan for.”

This book was PERFECTION. I mean rip me apart and put me back together why dont you. I loved this book. I think Ashley Poston has this was of writing books and stories that just work for me. "The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we."... like are you kidding. I need to get myself a physical copy of this book because I fully intend on rereading and sobbing between the pages. This is a romance book that is so unique but also has all the tropes that make it just a good romance. Overall I have no notes beyond everyone who has a heart must read this book.

I was scrolling Instagram and saw Mae talking about The Seven Year Slip. She was saying how she fell in love with it so I immediately got my hands on it without even looking it up and I’m so thankful that I did. It was a great story of grief, figuring out what you want out of life, growing and changing, and not being scared to take a chance. If you know me you know I love a good time travel aspect in a book, and this book does it really well. The way that Clementine and Iwan meet in the past was nicely executed and a great addition to the book. I love how their story unfolded over the 7 years since they had first met. It was really engaging and a highlight for me. The only thing I do wish was a little more of the romance aspect. Don’t get me wrong, it was there and it was excellent, but I personally just wanted more. Actually I wouldn’t mind a book from Iwan’s prospective. That would be a really great addition to the book. But that all aside, this was an excellent read and I definitely recommend it if you are looking for something to pick up this summer (or whatever season you are reading this review).

Last year, after reading the synopsis, I had no idea how Ashley Poston was going to deliver on the The Dead Romantics. How was it even going to work?

Not only did she nail that, but it ended up being one of my most memorable books of 2022. I loved it so much and have been eagerly anticipating this new release ever since. The time has finally come for the latest Adult Romantic Contemporary from Ashley Poston.

Unsurprisingly, The Seven Year Slip is stunning. I love this story with my whole heart. Poston has such a unique and magical sense of Contemporary storytelling that really vibes with my tastes. I cried actual tears, y'all. That's rough, but feels so good.

In this story we follow Clementine, a single-woman in NYC. She works in publishing and lives in a well-loved apartment that she recently inherited from her late-Aunt. Six-months have passed since the toughest day in Clementine's life and she feels like she is doing a relatively good job holding it all together. She is still working hard, focusing on that and just staying busy.

She may be fooling herself though, as she's sort of standing in place; stuck. That is until the apartment, which her Aunt always promised her was magical, delivers her the perfect gift she needed to potentially shake her out of her funk. A man. The apartment delivers her a handsome, kind, sexy man with a Southern drawl and a penchant for cooking. The only problem, for him, it's seven years in the past.

How the heck is this going to work, you may be wondering? How does this even make sense? All I can say to you is, trust the Poston.

The Seven Year Slip is an absolute delight. It's so layered and beautiful. I loved so, so much about this story, but for me, the really special part was the relationship between Clementine and her Aunt. As someone who is so incredibly close with my now adult niece and nephew, that aspect hit me hard. Right in the feels, like a gut punch. You could tell that Poston was writing this story from the heart. I felt it all the way to the marrow of my bones.

Poston's writing is incredibly smooth and engaging. She quickly pulls you in and before you know it, you're completely immersed in whatever world she has created. Additionally, she has a smart and snarky wit that just tickles me. Her characters are fantastic and I love the exploration of the different kinds of love and relationships. Particularly the family relationships are so well done.

As you can tell, I adored this story. I walk away with a full heart. 10-out-of-10 recommend.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Berkley, for providing me with a copy to read and review. This will definitely be a standout for me in 2023!

Another lovely escape from the mundane from this author. The Seven Year Slip was so enticing. Iwan and Clementine were both so delightfully human and doing their best to make it. I love their journey of finding themselves and each other. The 7 year differential is so real - could you imagine having 7 years perspective meeting someone and knowing they’ll cross your path when you are older and wiser. We all change and grow so much with each unique experience- this was such a great reminder of that and how couples can appreciate that growth and in fact celebrate the evolutions of our personalities growing together.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

An overwhelmed book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate... only to discover he lives seven years in the past.

This story is so magical. Ashley's writing is so captivating. It became a quick read for me, not wanting to put it down. The magical twist very much works for me. Clementine and Ewan's relationship will have you believing in soulmates and true love.

Read if you like:
time travel-magical realism
right person/wrong time
nicknames {Lemon}
LGBTQ+ rep
love & loss
slow burn

Ashley Poston knocks it out of the park again with another astounding contemporary romance with a dash of a magical element! The Seven Year Slip was everything I needed and more: the romance, the banter, the time travel, the processing grief. I will be thinking about this one for a long time. I hope it becomes as big as Dead Romantics. I think we all need it.

If you like books featuring…
Time travel
Restaurant World
Publishing World

Great for fans of…
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
The Bear
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Mostly show vibes)

The Seven Year Slip is a must-read romantic comedy with just the right amount of magical realism thrown in the mix. Clementine finds herself in a situation where she is able to go back in time for 7 years while she is inside the somewhat magical, whimsical New York City apartment which she inherited from her late, beloved aunt Analea. Now the stories that Analea used to tell Clementine are starting to make more sense. Analea's rules included one which Clementine often thought odd. It was to "never fall in love," and now Clementine understands exactly why, after meeting Iwan in her apartment from 7 years ago. It's just her luck that she would fall madly in love with a man who only exists in her apartment 7 years in the past. How will she ever find him in her future?