The Seven Year Slip book review

I read The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston last year and highly enjoyed it, so when I saw this one announced I knew that I would eventually end up picking it up. When I think about the two together I do think that I prefer The Dead Romantics but I recommend and had a great time reading both.

The Seven Year Slip follows Clementine who recently lost her Aunt and inherited her apartment, but this apartment doesn't seem to understand time so one day Clementine finds herself 7 years in the past. While romance plays a key part in the story, so does finding yourself and friendship. I tend to enjoy any book that talks about books and has strong female friendships so this ticked many of my boxes right off the bat.

The food in this book! I was constantly hungry reading it. Iwan, the male love interest, is a chef, so there is always delicious food being made, eaten or discussed so I'd recommend reading when you have a meal you enjoy rather than a couple hours before that meal.

Clementine has two really good friends where she works and I just love how much they support her and try to make sure she's doing the best for herself that she can. They support her, often know what's best for her before she does and are just everything a girl wants in her friends.

The last thing I want to discuss is the romance that fits into the story. There are many parts that are really positive surrounding this love story, that I wasn't necessarily expecting. For a decent amount of the book the people they know each other as aren't living at the same time (if that makes any sense), which as you would expect leads to a lot of personal growth. This isn't the only reason for the growth or the only way it happened but it did kick-start a lot of it and this growth is essential to the story in many ways. The plot is an obvious one but I don’t think the book would have the same feel or be as enjoyable without it either.

Even ignoring everything other than the romance, it was really strong and did have me super hooked in. The ending made me super happy and I really did want to know what was going to happen to these two characters together and apart.

Highly recommend and am very glad to have now read. Ashley Poston has proved herself now as a fantastic romance author with magical elements sprinkled in and I'll read whatever else she publishes in the same vein.

Thank you to Netgalley and HQ for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

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