Name: Sophia Rico's review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Item: The Seven Year Slip
Rating: 4
Author: Sophia Rico

Ashley Poston

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, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics. 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: 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.

The Seven Year Slip

reminds me of marty mcfly i mean that line of his delivered by him (marty and iwan) was 😔😍

Sophia

The years I’d spent seeing her in every crowd, glimpsing her, but never at the right time. Never the right year.

The rest of those seven years were blurry images against the sharp and bright memory of her.

angle

“I didn’t find out who I wanted to be until I was almost forty. You have to try on a lot of shoes until you find some you like walking in..."

Julia

“You could never be a bad idea, Lemon.”

Cici Pearson

You never commit a mundane moment to memory, thinking it’ll be the last time you hear their voice or see their smile or smell their perfume. Your head never remembers the thing your heart wants to in hindsight

I think,” he finally said, choosing his words carefully, “that 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

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.

Food is a work of art. That’s what a perfect meal is—something that you don’t just eat, but something you enjoy. With friends, and family—maybe even with strangers. It’s an experience. You taste it, you savor it, you feel the story told through the intricate flavors that play out across your tongue . . . it’s magical. Romantic.

Find fulfilling work, fall in love, and chase the moon.

I kept him at arm’s length because at least there he wouldn’t be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying. I could keep pretending I was fine—because I was fine. I had to be. I didn’t like people worrying about me when they had so many other things to worry about. That was my allure, right? That you didn’t need to worry about Clementine West. She always figured it out.

Jenna-Lee Gordon

Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes they stayed around in little ways. 

I didn’t need to be fixed. I needed… to be reminded that I was human 

You are who you are, and you are what you like he replied and there was no sarcasm in his voice. You are you, and that’s a lovely person to be 

she also said to keep your passport renewed, to pair red wines with meats and whites with everything else, to find work that is fulfilling to your heart as well as your head, to never forget to fall in love whenever you can find it because love is nothing if not a matter of timing, and to chase the moon 

irina

Because his favorite color was the same as mine.

chel

Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we. 

There was never grief without love or love without grief, and I chose to think that my aunt lived because of them. Because of all the light and love and joy that she found in the shadows of everything that plagued her. She lived because she loved, and she lived because she was loved, and what a lovely lifetime she gave us.

Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and the next. I hated her for leaving, and I loved her for staying as long as she could.

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. Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together.

For shaving off parts of myself, over and over again, to squeeze into the expectations I thought I needed to set for myself.

...because if l'd learned anything about living in a time-traveling apartmnent, no matter how much time you get, it's still never enough. And I wanted to start living my life like I was enjoying every moment that I had it.

absolutely not kidding when i say clem is me & i am clem

I ruined a lot of things, it seemed, while I tried to be something permanent.

abby .˚｡⋆ ༊ .˚｡⋆

i actually enjoyed this a lot more than i thought i would. its easy to read, the story is interesting and moves quickly. 

my issues are that there are several blurbs that are repetitive, to the point i was questioning if i was rereading a past page. i also felt like it played SO much into multiple themes - grief, romance, etc. each piece was necessary to complete the story, but maybe not so much of each one. 

its only mildly cheesy. the twists are easy to see coming but still have a good effect. 

Sophia Rico

i actually enjoyed this a lot more than i thought i would. its easy to read, the story is interesting and moves quickly. 

my issues are that there are several blurbs that are repetitive, to the point i was questioning if i was rereading a past page. i also felt like it played SO much into multiple themes - grief, romance, etc. each piece was necessary to complete the story, but maybe not so much of each one. 

its only mildly cheesy. the twists are easy to see coming but still have a good effect. 

i would recommend! 

i read it slow... doesn't really get that thrill/excitement to read it quick but i think that's the charm? it's a beautiful book, the kind that stays with you after you finished it. it's warm and you might want to talk about it in a slow conversation before going to bed. there are some romance in it, yes, but there are so much more to the book too 💌

Was so fun to read, deffo want to read more of this authors books! They all have such good concepts!

Made me abit emotional but that could have been the fact I was stuck on a train for 4 hours…

Ella Williams

I loved it!

Was so fun to read, deffo want to read more of this authors books! They all have such good concepts!

Made me abit emotional but that could have been the fact I was stuck on a train for 4 hours…

i didn't need to be fixed. i just needed ... to be reminded that i was human."

"and i wanted to start living my life like i was enjoying every moment that i had it."

"you will be happiest when you're on your own adventure. not analea's, not whoever you're dating, not everyone who thinks you should do what you're supposed to do—yours."

the way this book has a magical time travel-ish plot has also affected my life in general in a sort of magical way these days. this book has touched my heart and opened my new understanding of grief. grief is not always about people who have left us, but during the process of grief you finally find your true self, you also let go of some things that have become your habits because you finally realize that they do not make you happy at all. you've started to accept it, you've started to feel it, the feeling of yearning for things or even someone who can make you feel that the change in your life is totally okay and suddenly — it's finally here. and when you find it, it's beyond your imagination, in a magical way that you never imagined before. it makes you realize that nothing stays forever, but the love in it is always there. i annotated a lot of sentences from this book because it heals some part of my mind, give me different perspective about grief and change. this book has a lot of meaningful and powerful sentences and it makes me cried and bawled my eyes out and the warm feeling came inside my heart. i love this book so much and i give it 5 stars without a doubt. if this book turns into a human being, i will hug it tightly and shower it with tender love because i am grateful for teaching me new ways of thinking. one of the best reads this year.

love, kinanti

"i didn't need to be fixed. i just needed ... to be reminded that i was human."

"and i wanted to start living my life like i was enjoying every moment that i had it."

 

"you will be happiest when you're on your own adventure. not analea's, not whoever you're dating, not everyone who thinks you should do what you're supposed to do—yours."

 

the way this book has a magical time travel-ish plot has also affected my life in general in a sort of magical way these days. this book has touched my heart and opened my new understanding of grief. grief is not always about people who have left us, but during the process of grief you finally find your true self, you also let go of some things that have become your habits because you finally realize that they do not make you happy at all. you've started to accept it, you've started to feel it, the feeling of yearning for things or even someone who can make you feel that the change in your life is totally okay and suddenly — it's finally here. and when you find it, it's beyond your imagination, in a magical way that you never imagined before. it makes you realize that nothing stays forever, but the love in it is always there. i annotated a lot of sentences from this book because it heals some part of my mind, give me different perspective about grief and change. this book has a lot of meaningful and powerful sentences and it makes me cried and bawled my eyes out and the warm feeling came inside my heart. i love this book so much and i give it 5 stars without a doubt. if this book turns into a human being, i will hug it tightly and shower it with tender love because i am grateful for teaching me new ways of thinking. one of the best reads this year.

I've never felt this conflicted about a romance book before!?!????? there's a lot of choices, plot wise, that felt so smart and really turned around the book for me. And then there's this whole other theme of falling in love with a person even after they change. But then there's so many chapters that feel like filler. If this was more fiction novel than romance novel that really leaned in more to the whole time-slip premise which was executed SO WELL, this would have been an instant 5/5 and probably would had been one of my favourites. But the chef & cooking aspect of it is so wonderful and you can tell the character is a sublimation of the author's own interests but perhaps in the best way possible. [Goodreads TBR Roulette #45]

shaye

loved the seven year slip so much. a very cute, whimsical romance read with food playing a big part (my fav thing in this world). i was sold from the beginning. overall, a warm and lighthearted read i’ll definitely go back to again♡

saaral

This was such a beautiful and honest read. How do you contend with change and love and appreciate your past whilst still trying to figure out your future. the magic realism was done so well, and seeing the growth on the page was so divine. 

Monserrat Navarro 

An awesome read! Love will always win no matter what 💕 

Leidy Ramirez

micca

This book was so special and that surprised me. It was so much more than just a love story. It took me a while to get there but once the pieces came together I realized it was a journey through the complex grief of losing someone who was a bright spot in your world to the darkness in theirs. Stories like this are important and need to be told.

Rarely do I enjoy magical realism, but in this instance I was a fan. I loved how it framed Clementine and Iwan’s story, adding tension and depth to their emotions. Combined Clementine’s characterization of Analea the magic and whimsy of the apartment felt perfectly reasonable to me.

This was a highly emotional, but overall uplifting read. I recommend it to those in mood to not just laugh and cry, but to wonder quietly about the paths that their life has taken.

Alissa 

This book was so special and that surprised me. It was so much more than just a love story. It took me a while to get there but once the pieces came together I realized it was a journey through the complex grief of losing someone who was a bright spot in your world to the darkness in theirs. Stories like this are important and need to be told.

Rarely do I enjoy magical realism, but in this instance I was a fan. I loved how it framed Clementine and Iwan’s story, adding tension and depth to their emotions. Combined Clementine’s characterization of Analea the magic and whimsy of the apartment felt perfectly reasonable to me.

This was a highly emotional, but overall uplifting read. I recommend it to those in mood to not just laugh and cry, but to wonder quietly about the paths that their life has taken.

idk man. this shit is boring so i DNFed. also, i get vehement shakes at the thought of the main characters' names.

clementine? it would be a good name if she was like a goat or if this was set in the 40s. like her nickname is probably clem. which rhymes with phleghm. omg i would've bullied her ass in school. and don't get me started on iwan. iwan-t nothing to do with this boring ass man. and every time i keep picturing him as gary walsh from veep. 

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

idk man. this shit is boring so i DNFed. also, i get vehement shakes at the thought of the main characters' names.

clementine? it would be a good name if she was like a goat or if this was set in the 40s. like her nickname is probably clem. which rhymes with phleghm. omg i would've bullied her ass in school. and don't get me started on iwan. iwan-t nothing to do with this boring ass man. and every time i keep picturing him as gary walsh from veep. 

Wow… my feelings are still fresh because I literally just finished it. This was beautiful and truly magical. It’s a gateway that will always make me pick up Ashley Poston books from now on. The romance here was warm and hugged me like a blanket. I never wanted so much for the characters, and I’m just happy they’re all in the places they deserve. 

Can’t say anything more or I will cry!!! READ THIS NOW <3 

Wow… my feelings are still fresh because I literally just finished it. This was beautiful and truly magical. It’s a gateway that will always make me pick up Ashley Poston books from now on. The romance here was warm and hugged me like a blanket. I never wanted so much for the characters, and I’m just happy they’re all in the places they deserve. 

Can’t say anything more or I will cry!!! READ THIS NOW <3 

AUGH THIS BOOK literally so beautiful written. I don’t know what came over me because i’m usually a slow reader but every chapter I JUST WANTWD TO KEEP READING. I loved the characters and the story overall was so amazing. Also love that message it conveys especially as someone who has a hard time finding themselves or finding what truly makes me happy. I was giggling, kicking my feet, fuming, fighting back tears EVERYTHING But sometimes the way time worked did confuse me a little when iwan remembered clementine and everything from the apartment but clementine didn’t like idk but i didn’t really get that and also I won’t lie I giggled at some of these names like please what is iwan and drew 💀🙏 but overall I love this book sm legit saved me from my reading slump thank you

mikki ☆

Enjoyed the last 1/3 of the book!! Sweet message 

Madilyn Taylor

i love the writing so so much (the book is HEAVILY annotated by me for sure). it has magical realism yet the plot seems realistic for me: the way the main characters solve things & how the story goes toward ending. i had a great experience with this!

almeera

I feel like the writing was sooo clunky for me and kind of confusing - I don’t feel like the time hopping was well done.

Brittany Peterson

This was just okay for me 

I feel like the writing was sooo clunky for me and kind of confusing - I don’t feel like the time hopping was well done.



Well damn, I’m eating my words with this one. It was a really good story. To explain my thought process to my rating. I did figure out the entire plot of the story at 15% so it did go to  a 4, but I loved the writing so I went up to a 4.25. But then I listened to the Author’s Note and I never felt so seen after finishing it. So that alone went up to 4.5⭐️. There was a part of me that was apprehensive about the magical realism and while I don’t think I would like the other I did really like one. So yeah, my friends were right and if you were putting this off for whatever reason that you aren’t sure about, take my word for it and pick this book up. 

Priscilla Stanfield

4.5/5⭐️

Well damn, I’m eating my words with this one. It was a really good story. To explain my thought process to my rating. I did figure out the entire plot of the story at 15% so it did go to  a 4, but I loved the writing so I went up to a 4.25. But then I listened to the Author’s Note and I never felt so seen after finishing it. So that alone went up to 4.5⭐️. There was a part of me that was apprehensive about the magical realism and while I don’t think I would like the other I did really like one. So yeah, my friends were right and if you were putting this off for whatever reason that you aren’t sure about, take my word for it and pick this book up. 

OH MY GOD!! This is how I felt while reading this book! It's perfect. Ashley wrote knowing that it'd be perfect and people would have fallen in love with it, because how can anyone not to?!

While I was reading I put my hands on face wanting to scream at Clementine telling her that Iwan was at that restaurant, wanting her to run to him to tell him how much she loved him! 

The two songs I felt that would be perfect for this book of they turn it into movie are "wings" and "close to you" like this song would be in the head of Iwan when he thinks of Lemon "l burn for you & you don't even know my name" 

Thanks to everyone on TikTok who recommended this book. Thanks Ashley for writing this book so miraculously perfect!

Monica Faez

OH MY GOD!! This is how I felt while reading this book! It's perfect. Ashley wrote knowing that it'd be perfect and people would have fallen in love with it, because how can anyone not to?!

While I was reading I put my hands on face wanting to scream at Clementine telling her that Iwan was at that restaurant, wanting her to run to him to tell him how much she loved him! 

The two songs I felt that would be perfect for this book of they turn it into movie are "wings" and "close to you" like this song would be in the head of Iwan when he thinks of Lemon "l burn for you & you don't even know my name" 

Thanks to everyone on TikTok who recommended this book. Thanks Ashley for writing this book so miraculously perfect!

i loved everything about this book. at first i was a bit confused with the concept but as i read further i realised how painful but wonderful the story was.

and all i can think about are these seven quotes from the book:

“I kept him at arm’s length because at least there he wouldn’t be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying. I could keep pretending I was fine—because I was fine. I had to be. I didn’t like people worrying about me when they had so many other things to worry about. That was my allure, right? That you didn’t need to worry about Clementine West. She always figured it out.”

“Find fulfilling work, fall in love, and chase the moon.”

“Food is a work of art. That’s what a perfect meal is—something that you don’t just eat, but something you enjoy. With friends, and family—maybe even with strangers. It’s an experience. You taste it, you savor it, you feel the story told through the intricate flavors that play out across your tongue . . . it’s magical. Romantic.”

“There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.“

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

“Change isn’t always bad, Clementine”

“I think,” he finally said, choosing his words carefully, “that 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 loved everything about this book. at first i was a bit confused with the concept but as i read further i realised how painful but wonderful the story was.

and all i can think about are these seven quotes from the book:

“I kept him at arm’s length because at least there he wouldn’t be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying. I could keep pretending I was fine—because I was fine. I had to be. I didn’t like people worrying about me when they had so many other things to worry about. That was my allure, right? That you didn’t need to worry about Clementine West. She always figured it out.”

“Find fulfilling work, fall in love, and chase the moon.”

“Food is a work of art. That’s what a perfect meal is—something that you don’t just eat, but something you enjoy. With friends, and family—maybe even with strangers. It’s an experience. You taste it, you savor it, you feel the story told through the intricate flavors that play out across your tongue . . . it’s magical. Romantic.”

“There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn’t like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they’d live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.“

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

“Change isn’t always bad, Clementine”

“I think,” he finally said, choosing his words carefully, “that 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”

um livro que me fez sentir uma mulher solteira e 30 anos (li em um fds muito bom parabéns)

Pedro Rodarte

first book of the year did not disappoint! super quick, cute read. any free time I had went towards this book which felt amazing since I fell into the worst reading slump of my life last year. perfect book to get you out of a slump!

Kassidy May Gaudet

If you need a good cry, this one feels like a hug.

𝒜

book so good it got me out of my reading slump, i was seated 

bree ♡̷̷̷

wow. this book is so beautifully written. i am so obsessed with the word choice and style and i will be SPRINTING to read more of poston’s books. not only was the wording beautiful, but the way she writes about grief and happiness is just so real. being in my late 20s, recently laid off and struggling with grief this book was like wow. yeah just so well written, and felt very authentic to those emotions of grief and just overall feeling lost in life. 

im glad the magic wasnt explained. normally magic in realistic roms is weird and i hate it. but i enjoyed it and loved that the message was just tied to the theme of staying true to yourself. ugh the rom aspect was also great. idk everything was just so good. this is def my favorite book ive read this year.  

alice l

wow. this book is so beautifully written. i am so obsessed with the word choice and style and i will be SPRINTING to read more of poston’s books. not only was the wording beautiful, but the way she writes about grief and happiness is just so real. being in my late 20s, recently laid off and struggling with grief this book was like wow. yeah just so well written, and felt very authentic to those emotions of grief and just overall feeling lost in life. 

im glad the magic wasnt explained. normally magic in realistic roms is weird and i hate it. but i enjoyed it and loved that the message was just tied to the theme of staying true to yourself. ugh the rom aspect was also great. idk everything was just so good. this is def my favorite book ive read this year.  

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