Book Review: The Seven Year Slip

In 2022, I read Ashley Poston’s The Dead Romantics and loved it. I heard amazing things about her latest book, The Seven Year Slip, and I was not surprised. I, of course, had to get it and it was so good.

The novel follows Clementine West, a book publicist in New York City. Six months ago her aunt, whom she was extremely close with, passed away and left her her apartment. Throughout her life, Clementine spent a lot of time at this apartment and her aunt always told her that apartment was magical. Her aunt would tell her that the apartment pinched time and could transport you seven years in the past or the future, but only inside the apartment and you would never know when it would happen next. Part of Clementine thought her free-spirited aunt was making up stories and part of her believed the story of the magical apartment. But she realizes her aunt was telling the truth when she returns to her apartment one day to find a guy there who claims her aunt is a friend of his mom’s and that she sublet her apartment to him for the summer while she’s in Europe.

The guy’s name is Iwan and on the few occasions the apartment allows Clementine and him to spend time together they get to know one another and begin to develop feelings for each other. It could even be love. The problem is, the Iwan she has come to know and care about lives seven years in the past.

This book was so beautiful. I loved Clementine and Iwan so much and the connection they had with one another from the very beginning. It’s not only a romance though. Clementine goes through a lot of growth in this novel – grieving the death of her aunt, her feelings for someone who is not in her present time, and figuring out if she’s still happy in her professional life.

This is definitely going to be one of my favorite books of the year. There were so many beautiful and poignant and hopeful and heartbreaking quotes in this book. One that really resonates with me right now is: “Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”

I highly recommend this book! Read this if you want a contemporary romance with a little spice and a little magic.

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