I was late to reading this one but I loved it! I adored the Dead romantics and this book was equally charming and engrossing. Poston is so great at building characters and making them so realistic and robust. I definitely recommend this one!

Ashley Poston is a champion at writing magical reaslism-meets-romance and does it again in The Seven Year Slip, about a woman who falls in love with her temporary roommate - who is actually living seven years in the past - only to reunite with him in her present life as well.

Clementine’s aunt always told her, her apartment was magical, but Clementine always imagined it was just another story. That is until, while grieving the loss of her aunt, she finds a strange man standing in her late aunt’s kitchen. He’s the perfect man for Clementine and exactly what she would normally fall for, but she knows she can never let anyone into her heart since that leaves her open to be left. Oh, and Clementine happens to live seven years in the future, because turns out her aunt’s apartment is magic after all.

This was such a complex and cute story. Clementine was a great lead. She had such a great personality who truly just needed to find herself and understand that it’s better to have been loved and lost than to never have loved. Clementine mixed with our male lead Iwan was perfection. You could feel the chemistry between the two, and while semi open door, this story is way more about sustainable love.

With a mix of wrong timing, second change, and magical realism; this romance is great for all romance readers. While there were still some cheesy pieces (as all good romances have) it was a great story about grief, growing, and always having hope. Definitely recommend.


The Seven Year Slip is out now. Huge thank you to Berkley for my advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion. If you liked this review please let me know either by commenting below or by visiting my Instagram @speakingof.books.

I loved this book so much. This is perfect for Emily Henry fans. I loved the food descriptions, the NYC setting, and the secondary characters. Such a fun read- I couldn't put it down!

Ashley Poston’s The Dead Romantics was one of my top three favorite books last year. And now, The Seven Year Slip is definitely a contender for a similar position in 2023!

First things first: if you’re not a fan of magical realism and weird time loop-ish storylines, you may not enjoy this. But I couldn’t get enough.

Clementine has been mourning the death of her larger-than-life aunt Analea, with whom she shared many adventures and stories since childhood. Analea believed sadness and ennui could be cured by picking up your passport and traveling somewhere exotic. Her aunt’s loss is devastating, and even though she left Clementine her apartment, she’s finding it difficult to imagine living there without her.

One day she arrives home at her apartment to find a handsome man, Iwan. He has a Southern drawl and a love of cooking. He says he’s the son of her aunt’s friend, and her aunt said he could sublet the apartment for the summer. Then Clementine realizes that he exists in the past. Seven years in the past. And she lives seven years in his future.

Analea told Clementine that the apartment was a pinch in time–a place where the past and present sometimes combined in strange ways. There was no rhyme or reason to when this would happen, but how do you stop your heart from falling for the person who seems to complete you? And when she finds Iwan in her present, what will happen?

Poston definitely knows how to hit all of my buttons. I loved this story so much, and it left me a complete puddle of emotions. I hope others love it as much as I did!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for an advance copy of this amazing book. It will publish 6/27.

Time-traveling romance...but this trip didn't go as planned for this reader.

Clementine inherited her aunt's apartment B4. One day Clementine encounters Iwan, an inspiring chef in the apartment who claims to be renting the place while her aunt travels. hmm!?

I love time-traveling stories and this one has a time-bending apartment that sends Clementine back 7 years in the past which sounds really interesting.

But somehow I feel I read a different book. I wasn't invested in these characters and didn't feel the spark whatsoever between the MCs. Frankly, I was quite bored and the flowery prose wasn't for me. I love food and even the food talk here fell a bit flat.

I have many friends who loved this book. Some found it to be moving and beautiful so please check out those reviews and give it a try if it feels like something you may enjoy. 2.5⭐

Thank you Berkley for the DRC.

This book was SO WONDERFUL! I could not have loved it more 🩷 I really enjoyed her first book, but this one was EVEN MORE

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC of this title.

I loved this book so much! Ashley Poston has become an auto-read author for me. She does so well at describing and portraying grief. Both of her books found me when I was going through a terrible amount of grief myself, and it felt so cathartic to read these books and see what I was going through, but also see light past that experience. Highly recommend.

Clementine has lost the most significant person in her life, her aunt - the woman who served as confidant, adventure buddy, and anchor in the world. A bit adrift in the world Clementine moves into the apartment her aunt left to her and tries to put her world back in order amidst her lingering grief. But not all is as it seems because Clementine's new apartment has a tendency to slip time and takes with it the man Clementine might be falling in love with. The Seven Year Slip is the romance you seek if you're looking for the same energy as the movie The Lake House - romantic, bittersweet, full of longing, and the dash of fear the timing will never be right but also the joy when life knits itself together in the most unexpected ways.

Ashley Poston is back again with another idiosyncratic romantic comedy that has ties to both the book publishing industry and the paranormal. Clementine is a burnt out book publicist living in her late aunt’s New York City apartment which acts, inconsistently, as a time portal to seven years in the past. The problem is, seven years ago, Aunt Anelea sublet this same apartment to a handsome, charming, aspiring chef, Southern transplant Iwan. When Clementine and Iwan cross paths in the apartment, the attraction is immediate, but also, problematically transient. Making the same life-altering connection when Iwan’s past meets up with Clementine’s present, proves to be a fun, satisfying journey

I like this one more than Dead Romantic. I think I had an issue with a whple ghost thing. This one does not have ghost thing but more travel in time. I love twistes and turns and how she connected it all. It is really a romance book with happy ending. The story is a patg to happy ending and I could not wait to finish it.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.

Four stars. Wonderful characters and plot. Moving. I wish she had 10 more books out - I'd read every one. Will be recommending and reading anything in the future from this author. Thank you for the title.

The Seven Year Slip was a perfect read - enough fun, enough romance, enough tension, and enough surprises to keep you reading far too late into the night. Ashely Poston is one of my favorite authors because she writes books that get me engaged with her characters, engrossed in the storyline, and reaches a satisfying end.

Let me just say I have LOVED reading Ashley Poston's ventures into adult/new adult romance, especially as someone who has little interest in her YA titles. The Seven Year Slip is like a warm hug dealing with youth, one's struggle with their career path, friendship, and grief alllll wrapped into a little sci-fi timeslip plot-line and I loved it. It doesn't quite reach my love for The Dead Romantics because I felt like something could have been pushed a little further with more nuance but I also cannot place my finger on what that would be. This read is best begun only knowing the synopsis, let the magic/mystery/romance wash over you like a warm hug.

This was a truly magical book! I loved the relationship between clementine and iwan. While not based in reality, the relationship was still swoon worthy! Definitely picking up more books by this author!

Ashley Poston is officially one of my favorite authors. I appreciate the warmth, humor, and honesty she brings to the page. She managed to navigate some challenging subject matter, while weaving in just the right amount of romance and magic. I cannot wait to see what she writes next!

Moving, mesmerizing, and deeply heartfelt. Poston’s previous work Dead Romantics is one of my favorite novels of all time, and this one is even better. What I expected was a warm romance, what I got was a beautifully written story of love, loss, and how we find our way back to ourselves and each other. I typically don’t enjoy time travel or fantasy books but Poston has infused so much heart into this book that I couldn’t help but love it. The Seven Year Slip is profound, beautiful, and deeply meaningful.

i LOVED this book!!! THE DEAD ROMANTICS author is back with another magical realism romance and this landed in my top books of the year (so far).

this was an absolute GEM of a book and i truly enjoyed every second (except 1 🥹). for me, this book is the definition of why you give authors a second chance. i didn’t love THE DEAD ROMANTICS plot and story like everyone else on IG last year. but i liked the authors writing style, so i bought THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP and absolutely fell in love. it was so nice going into a book blind and with zero expectations (and taking a break between 593929 thrillers 😅). THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP is so original and unique, and it also feels like a big hug. it has time travel/magical realism (my fave) and a second chance romance trope (also my fave)—but more specifically right person wrong time. i never wanted to put it down.

i recommend going in pretty blind, but THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP follows Clementine, her aunt and their magical apartment that takes you back 7 years in the past. one day, Clementine comes home and finds a man in her kitchen. but he’s not real, because he’s in the past. so what now? 👀

similar to her debut novel, this story tackled grief so beautifully. but in my opinion, it had a stronger storyline and more likeable characters… especially Iwan! a southern boy turned successful chef >>>>

i also loved it being set in the publishing world and about books too. books about books are the best! i knocked off 1/2 star for a few minor things, mainly the ending. i get why it ended that way, but i wasn’t in love with it.

all that to say, PICK THIS UP!!!! i was thinking of it very time i put it down yet didn’t want it to be ever. enjoy 🥰💛

I wish the cover did this book justice.

Poston's writing voice is beautiful. I didn't realize this was romance at first, and when I finally did I was even happier to be reading it.

The dual timelines is well done and the romance makes you believe that love exist for us all.