If you love a bit of magic and time travel with your romance then you’ll adore this book! I’m a fan of Ashley’s novel The Dead Romantics, so I was very excited to read this, and I wasn’t disappointed. The beginning dragged a little, but it didn’t take too long for the drama to ramp up, and when it did I couldn’t put it down. Some of the magical elements threw me off at first, and I had to go back and reread a few times, but when I finally had my “a-ha” moment it started making more sense. You definitely need to pay close attention to grasp it all. Overall, it was a very sweet romance story, and I would highly recommend it. I can say with (almost) 100% certainty that fans of The Dead Romantics will enjoy this one too.

A fun time-travel story with a twist. Clementine has parents who love and support her, but her favorite family member was her aunt. She and Clementine traveled every summer and her aunt always told her that her apartment was magical. When she died, she left the apartment to Clementine. Living with a bruised heart, Clementine was not looking for love, but walking into the apartment one day and finding a strange man there, started a journey she could not resist. The problem is the timing. They are both living in a seven year slip. COuld Clementine meet and like this man in the present?

This was absolutely lovely and will be on my best of list this year guaranteed!

Thank you for the opportunity to read early

I really enjoyed this book! I thought The Dead Romantics was very sweet and was excited to see another book from this author. While I thought it was a bit slow getting started, once the "action" started I was hooked. I think the character development and growth were really great and I liked the magical elements. I was a bit confused for a while about how the apartment is the only thing that moves by 7 years. I thought it was everything which made me very confused until about the 2nd or 3rd time it happened and then it made a lot more sense. I didn't really understand how Analea was able to afford what sounded like a very nice apartment in NYC and was able to travel the world when she seemed to have no job after her Broadway career. I also didn't really understand how Clementine was able to paint in the travel guides. Just from a logistical perspective, travel guides have very narrow margins. Was she painting over the words?
I like how Clementine and Iwan had an instant connection and how as the book unfolded we got to see all the times and ways that their paths crossed. It was a very sweet story and really makes you realize that sometimes timing is everything. I also liked the cameo we got with Benji from The Dead Romantics. The was very cute. I really enjoyed this book and if you enjoyed Poston's previous book, you will likely enjoy this one too.

After reading the Dead Romantics, I was so excited for another book by Ashley Poston! I liked this one as well. I think fans of the Dead Romantics will as well!

i was so excited when i got this ARC that i think i shed some tears. when i read ashley poston’s last book, “The Dead Romantics” i immediately was in love with the weird fun cute world she created and wanted more of it. that book easily became top ten favorites. this one was something i was super excited for- it had lovely things i knew i’d eat up- time travel(ish), second chance love stories, lots of small twists & turns, and a lovable main character & love interest.

honestly, though. i felt this was more a 3.5/5 but i landed on 4 due to a few things:

SPOILERS BELOW.,,

- benji cameo, cried a lot
- the whole iwan / vera relationship with clementine & her aunt- precious
- the intricacies of the actual time travel-ish plot that was embedded quite well with the actual romance plot of it

i didn’t honestly think much of this- it was a quick read ( went from page 81 to 281 in a matter of 2 hours ) and found myself skimming a lot of it because it felt a little lackluster. however, i knew i was just waiting for more info on the whole apartment being sorta magical- thing, which we got near the end so it helped. i think the biggest issue i had with this was that clementine didn’t feel like a fleshed out main character, but merely a storyteller given a story to tell. i don’t MIND this necessarily- but Florence from “The Dead Romantics” was WAY more fleshed out than Clementine was.,, but it wasn’t so bad it made it insufferable

i also liked that this did not have the stereotypical 3rd act breakup by miscommunication trope that other romance novels have ( both works now by Ashley Poston have been Not this & i appreciate it each time )

overall- it was what i wanted from this book, i liked the time travel magical element of it, i liked the slowly twisting and turning unravelling of the timeline and everything syncing up together, and the acceptance clementine goes through at the end. its a nice feel-good romance with a lil bit of mystical elements. overall, pretty good

Ashley Poston’s first book, The Dead Romantics, was a fun read whose trajectory was a little expected. The Seven Year Slip, however, took me on an insanely unexpected ride with so much heart and emotion and love. I absolutely have had book-hangover since I read it and will continue to recommend it to everyone.

If you want a more magical version of The Lake House with a hot chef, this is your book. I couldn’t put it down and sobbed through the ending.

Thank you Berkley and NetGalley for the eARC of The Seven Year Slip. Gosh, I loved it so much. A tender and honest novel that gives equal weight to (1) a time-travel love story built on mutual encouragement and (2) the process of grieving losing a loved one to suicide. Poston balances these two elements with grace, humor, and just the right amount of sugary sweet romance. The food discussions will make you salivate, the side characters are a delight, and Iwan is the ultimate book boyfriend: a soft-hearted, tattooed hunk who loves to cook!

This was a wonderfully enjoyable book. I got sucked into Lemon and Iwan's story and was sad when it ended. I will say the author got really long winded at the end and I did skip a bunch of inner reflection because it went on way too long. I also would have enjoyed if they'd spent more time together. It amounted to a few days in the past, a few in the present and that isn't enough time to fall in love. However, even with these few annoyances, I still really enjoyed the book.

mark my words, this will be on my top 3 favorite books of the entire year!!! I loved it THAT much 🥹🥹

after absolutely adoring every word of THE DEAD ROMANTICS, I was beyond ecstatic to get my hands on ashley’s latest and greatest. THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP still has the magical realism elements that make her stories so unique and beautiful - but this time, it’s a magical apartment set in cozy uptown NYC!

clementine inherits her aunt’s apartment after she suddenly passes, only to discover that the apartment is truly magic and shifts back in time when she least expects it. enter: iwan, an aspiring chef and renter of the apartment from seven years ago who has all of the right things to say to clementine 🥹

the story itself was unlike anything I’ve ever read before! it was creative, cute and fluffy, downright LOL moments, and seriously made my stomach growl with all of the delicious food references.

however, it was truly clementine’s journey with iwan that got to me. I was HERE for their undeniable chemistry, their cute af banter, and all of the twists life threw at both of them! my heart is completely split open for these two ❤️❤️❤️

and reader, I bawled my eyes out at the entire last 15% of this one.

this is definitely a relatable story for me, dealing with grief and feeling very lost in life, but it brought me so many smiles and virtual hugs. stories like this exist to remind readers like me that we’re never alone in this big strange unforgivable world 💕

I cannot thank penguin random house and netgalley enough for virtually changing my life with this advanced copy!!! summer cannot come fast enough so I can get my hands on a physical copy!

rating: 5 stars (can it be 5 billion???)
wine pairing: knights valley cabernet sauvignon

✨https://youtu.be/4wJw2ewrJt8?t=44 - specifically 00:44-00:50✨

It’s really hard to talk about this book without a. staring dramatically out my window while wearing an unnecessarily oversized sweater b. turning into an emotional waterfall and c. SPOILING it, so for once in my life I’ll keep this review short and sweet. Maybe I’ll come back here closer to release day, but who’s to say...

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I didn’t think Ashley Poston could top The Dead Romantics, but I’ve been absolutely ravished. The Seven Year Slip is a magical time travel romance á la The Lake House: After moving into her late aunt’s apartment, Clementine finds her present overlapping with a handsome stranger’s past…and then she meets him again, seven years changed. It was charming and sweet, but also incredibly vulnerable, as it explored the after of losing someone dear and grieved the innocence of past selves in the before.

I loved how the timelines wove together to create a tapestry of their past and present selves. Clementine and Iwan’s relationship was a whirlwind of serendipity and sexy cooking. And god the YEARNING. The drama of it all coming back to the present was absolutely delicious. It’s set in the same world as The Dead Romantics, and we got to briefly see Benji and Florence because Clementine was a publicist at a rival house. Iwan put the sexy in sexy cooking because he was a HOT and TATTOOED chef. He could whip my peaks like a lemon meringue any day of the week.

Grab a box of tissues, DoorDash your emotional support dessert, and indulge in The Seven Year Slip. It’s an instant classic. If I could turn back time, I’d experience the first read rush all over again ✨

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶️.75*/5

*We got a couple of scenes and it was “spicier” than The Dead Romantics. The writing was still pretty vague…but he was a hot chef and the vibes were immaculate.


My mini playlist:
- If I Could Turn Back Time, Cher
- It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Céline Dion
- Hits Different, Taylor Swift
- All of the Girls You Loved Before, Taylor Swift
- Invisible String, Taylor Swift
- Leather and Lace (With Don Henley), Stevie Nicks
- Here You Come Again, Dolly Parton
- Fire and Rain, James Taylor
- Light On, Maggie Rogers
- Rose Colored Lenses, Miley Cyrus
- Seven Year Ache, Rosanne Cash (title vibes only lmao but I mean technically he was legit trying to cure that Seven Year Slip 😮‍💨)
- Hungry Eyes, Eric Carmen (he’s a chef, duh)
- The Louvre, Lorde (idk she likes art museums)



CWs: Suicide (off-page, recounted), dementia (grandparent, off-page recounted), grief

Thank you to Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 stars

It is March and I have already found one of my top reads of 2023. Seven Year Slip is the follow-up to one of my all-time favorite reads (The Dead Romantics) and somehow Ashley Poston has written an even better love story. The Seven Year Slip has a bit of The Lake House vibe to it and is a heart-achingly beautiful love story. It follows Clementine, a book publicist grieving over the loss of her beloved aunt and at a crossroads in her life and career. After inheriting her aunt’s “magical” apartment, she comes home to an adorably quirky man, Iwan, one day in her kitchen. He is the kind of man Clementine could fall in love with..if he wasn’t from seven years ago. Turns out her aunt’s apartment is magical and she has fallen in love with a man from the past.

Only Ashley Poston could write in such a way that I completely buy into this premise and become instantly invested. Yes, the old “time traveling apartment” trope. This book repeatedly ripped my heart out and then put it back together. Clementine and Iwan are my precious cinnamon rolls and I want nothing but the best for them. This romance is full of vibes, angst, gorgeous writing, endearing characters, and VIBES. I want to live inside this book. This book is my new personality. I will never be over this book. All the stars.

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The dead romantics was one of my favourite books last year so to say i was excited for this book was an understatement. This blew me away and i was left wanting more. One of my absolute favourite things about this book is the relationship Clementine and her aunt had, there was so much love and i couldn’t help my fall in love with them. On the other hand, Iwan and Clementine, gosh they were so perfect and i loved the magic aspect of it, the alternating time periods were super well done. I’ll be thinking about this book for ages now, definitely one of my favourites. The only issue was there was a few mistakes and a bit of words missing!

this is now my new favorite book. i loved the dead romantics by this author so i was excited for this one.

but this book hit me and blew me away. it was magical and funny and real and poetic and romantic and beautiful from start to finish. i absolutely did not want it to be over. just wow. 6/5 stars. i am in complete adoration for how gorgeous the storytelling was. I want to immediately reread this.

I loved this book. Poston always writes great stories and this one somehow blends grief and romance so well! I loved the food details and felt that the apartment was truly alive and magical. I always look forwards to her next book! Thank you so much for this advanced copy!

The Seven Year Slip was somehow even better than The Dead Romantics. I absolutely loved Clementine, and I found the premise to be a really unique take on the contemporary romance genre.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the free e-copy.

“I felt starved- the wild girl I wanted to be but never quite was, the kind who yearned to devour the world one sensation at a time.”

Thank you to netgalley and Berkley for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

You know when you find a book that just fits into your soul like a long lost puzzle piece? Like it was always waiting for you and you for it? This is that book.

It was magical and dreamy and ever since I was a little girl I have been a sucker for time travel- in every form. I have dreamt about getting whisked away by a mad man in a box, about visiting a time I had only read about in history books. I never dreamt about a time traveling apartment but I’m glad it found me.

This book is a marvel. It is about grief, sadness but also love and smiles and adventure and joy. I saw a lot of myself in the pages of this book- little fragments of who I am found in the various characters of these pages. Like Clementine I am a painter- who wonders what color I would paint my lovers eyes, like her aunt I am someone who lives with a monster on her shoulder everyday of her life.

Ashley has a way of making anything seem possible with her words whether it be an apartment that can travel back seven years or about falling in love with a ghost. She makes the mundane seem exciting, makes you wish you could see the world through her characters eyes.

I absolutely love her repetition of key words and phrases. It is so lovely and done at the perfect, precise moments. I love how she will take a certain theme and twist it in on itself.
For example: her aunt says “I had memorized the freckles on her back, drawn them into constellations.” And later lemon says: “the freckles across his nose, specking his skin like constellations.” She uses parallel in her words with such beauty and intent. It is never wasted.

It is obvious this author put the whole of herself into these words and this story. There is a raw vulnerability in her writing,- I also saw in the dead romantics- and you can’t just find that any old piece of writing, but in this one it is evident.

Another parallel we find in this book and the dead romantics is that our main character is dealing with grief and it is such a gut wrenching and astonishing process- watching them both bloom and change despite the fact that they are both hurting.

I also love how she includes a love for books in each story she tells. After all, our love for books is why we read, why we write- why we do all of this- if only for a momentary escape.

Her characters go through so much growth and they are so real and raw, like you could pluck them out of the pages and befriend them, or just hold them for a long, long time and tell them they are safe and they healed you for the time you were able to spend in their existence.

I cannot wait to read this book again and again as I change and grow and bloom because this is one I will carry in my heart- and in my thoughts - for years to come.

“And here we all were, because if we all loved one thing, it was books.”

I adored this book - such a poignant story of grief and how time changes you as a person. I loved the Dead Romantics, so I knew I was going to love this one - and it fully met my expectations. Loved this romance, and can't wait to see what Ashley Poston does next. Thank you NetGalley and Berkley for this advanced copy!

SERIOUSLY ASHLEY?! One of my favorite authors! I love how her books explore a bit of paranormal and a LOT of romance, and it's just what I need in my life... something that suspends my disbelief for a moment but warms my heart completely. The sophomore slump can be real for authors, but I'm delighted to say it's not real for Ashley. She continues to deliver wonderful stories, and will continue to be an autobuy author for me!

I think Ashley's second adult romance is even better than her first! "The Seven Year Slip" is a captivating romance, but also a great story of how we change over time as people: our priorities, our ambitions, and what we continue to hold dear. I absolutely loved the main relationship. My only critique would be that the side characters felt a little weak.