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Sadly this didn't live up to the hype for me. I absolutely adored The Dead Romantics (one of my top favorite romance books ever!) but this just fell a little flat in terms of the romance and the plot. It felt slow (both romance and plot) and I didn't connect to the characters. I did enjoy the writing style and inner dialogue but this just wasn't for me.
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โ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ต'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต.โ
I devoured this book in just a couple days and fell in love with it. I donโt read enough contemp romance that is sprinkled with sci-fi and magical elements, and every time I do it becomes a new favorite. This one is set in the book world and integrates one of my other favorite things, food! So many nods to cooking, finding love in a simple moment over a meal, and trying new restaurants.
This book was filled with so many treasures of wonderful quotes and characters. Clementine, aka Lemon, is a publicist for a well known publisher and lives in her auntโs apartment in NY. Thereโs something magical about this apartment as it slips through time. She has the best meet cute with Iwan, an aspiring chef who just moved to NYC. Whatโs magical about this story is Clementine coming to terms with her grief, reigniting her passions in life like art, making note of little moments between friends and family, and could be falling in love with this chef?
Hereโs what I loved about the time travel part of the story, she actually meets Iwan when the apartment slips back seven years. She is in the now, and he is in the past, however their paths continue to cross. New memories are made for her now, while theyโre just a reminder of the past for him. There were so many layers and complexities to these characters that just keep you invested and wanting more.
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๐ฅMagical Realism
๐Time Travel
๐ทTalks of desserts
๐ฝ๏ธMaking Memories
๐ฐSecond Chance Romance
๐ฎNYC Sites and Sounds
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I AM OFFICIALLY OBSESSED WITH 'LEMON' AS A PET NAME, WOWOWOW. This book was so sweet and a little steamy and a lot magnificent. Ashley Poston knows *exactly* how to weave just the right amount of extraordinary and magic into her stories that I can't help but swoon and giggle and absolutely fall in love with everyone involved.
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This book made me cry so much and is my new fav Ashley Poston. I truly cannot say more good things about it. Ashley Poston is on the same god tier as Emily Henry.
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The Seven Year Slip is a book that I will be recommending forever. It's absolutely beautiful, sad and happy all at the same time.
Iwan is the sweetest and most sincere MMC and I fell in love with him instantly. (don't tell my husband).
Clementine is more serious and focused. She hates change and doesn't know what to do with her life now that Analea (her aunt) is no longer here.
"๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ"
"๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ?"
"๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ"
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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.
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This book wasnโt nearly as light as I expected. Not rom com, much sadder and morose. Beautiful concept and writing. Lots of feels. This one might make you cry. Heavy, emotional and heartfelt. Itโs about grief and finding yourself. Im not sure I was prepared.
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Wow. Wow wow wow. The Seven Year Slip was SO good, I actually canโt even express how much I loved this. Much like The Dead Romantics this was a book deeply about grief. But Poston handles hard topics (in this case suicide) with such beautifully written care. The romance in this was delightful, I read and listened on audio and I honestly couldnโt put it down. Lemon and Iwan were everything. All the stars!
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A moving and witty follow-up to The Dead Romantics. Explored grief, especially after suicide, in such a thoughtful and authentic way.
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I couldnโt put this book down. I laughed and cried and fell in love with the characters in this book. I didnโt want it to end
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Ms Poston truly astonishes with the fluidity of her writing, with her eloquent, crisp style that pulls you in immediately and holds you spellbound until the end.
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Oh, I just adored this! I didn't want to put it down at all, and if I didn't have any obligations, I would have definitely stayed up until 5 or 6am to finish it!!!
I've found that I love stories set in NYCโit's the familiarty of the city, knowing a street and a place and a landmark and grinning because I could be there too! It feels silly, but it's not bc familiarity is so lovely, I think.
My favorite part of romance books (I think only romance books, so far) is the small tragedies in them, which is weird to admit. That little bit of heartache the main character carries through the bookโI always want more of it and discovering it throughout the book just makes everything else about the romance even better.
I adored Clementine, but what's more is that I adored her heartbreak about her aunt. It was so beautifully written, as grief often is. Poston really nailed that well.
And of COURSE I loved the romance! I couldn't get enough of Iwan, sweet guy he is. The friendships were amazing, as wellโI knew Poston would write that bit incredibly. Fiona and Drew were as important to the story as Iwan was, and it made my heart so happy. Friendships are important relationships, too
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I love this author! This is the second book that I've read and they've both been wonderful. The author has an interesting premise and I very much enjoyed the ride. I would highly recommend this author and book!
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This was the sweetest story! i didnโt quite know what to expect beyond a romance with some magical realism and was completely swept away in this beautiful, swoony story of love and loss. I absolutely adored Iwan and the the beautiful depth of Clementineโs story. And I definitely loved the lemon pies!
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Clementine doesnโt want to get hurt so she distances herself from the people in her life. That is until she find a strange man standing in her auntโs apartment. As the build rapport, they realize that he lives seven years in the past. Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, and now Clementine knows why. She knows this man could be the love of her life but is she willing to open her heart up to him.
Oh how I loved this story! I typically struggle with magical realism, but not with this book. Poston created such a fun and unique world, and I adored all the foodie aspects in the story. I really wanted things to work out with Iwan and Clementine. I just loved them together and was hoping they would find themselves in the world outside apartment B4.
This was my first book by Poston and I absolutely fell in love with it. She is a clever writer and I really enjoyed reading about Clementine finding herself. The friendships in the story were great, and the way she described the trips Clementine and her aunt on transported me to the places they traveled.
I enjoyed the audiobook narrated by Brittany Pressley. The subtlety and sereneness were perfect for this story.
I look forward to reading more from Poston.
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Finally read this book in February 2024 after having had the ARC from NetGalley for quite some time, and honestly I am extremely disappointed. The way I wanted to love this book. The way that I was fully prepared to become invested in the plot. And the way I was... not.
The good: the premise for the book was excellent. I mean what a stellar idea! A seven-year time slip and a love story to span the years? Sign me up. Another big hit: NO THIRD-ACT BREAKUP AND MISCOMMUNICATION. I mean for these traits alone I should have been running to the nearest bookstore to buy a copy.
But instead it brings me to the bad: the pacing absolutely ruined the book. The first half was bland, so much repetition and needless detail, what is happening here? By 40-50% I was like, "alright alright it is getting good." No. False alarm. Suddenly things pick up, characters are making moves and developing. 70% is like moving and suddenly sitting in an empty house when you literally only packed one box. Once the plot hit the climax, it didn't go anywhere! And then we get a rushed ending that ties everything up nicely, but gives us nothing else in terms of development. Truly some of the most intriguing details that "would have" made the plot shine, suddenly disappeared like dust.
By the end, I was irrationally angry at this book. And I felt robbed. I felt like as a reader I was presented with possibly one of the best romance book premises in recent history and then just Fyre Festival'd.
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I realize this feedback is almost a year overdue. I apologize. I finally had time to read it and I'm so glad I did. In addition to being a lovely, well-written story, it also made me think hard about the relationships I have now versus the ones I had with the same people years ago. What a great exercise. I told quite a few people that I love them this week, some as overdue as this review.
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I connected to this book from the get go. The way that Ashley Poston deals with grief is so real and relatable that anyone who has had to experience grief in any way can understand. The relationship between Clementine and Iwan is witty and raw. The time shift in this novel makes you think about your own life and how you would interact with those around you if you too were in that situation. We all wish we could have an eclectic aunt who leaves behind magic, and Clementine gets just that. All in all, I simply loved this book from cover to cover. I read it in one sitting and I canโt wait to recommend this book to other readers.
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I loved the authorโs first book, The Dead Romantics; so I went into this with high expectations and it did not disappoint! It may be one of my favourite romance books of all time. The magical realism paired with such lovable characters was so compelling; the perfect amount of comedy and angst woven together with a beautiful love story.
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WOW. If this isnโt my favorite romance of the year Iโll be shocked. I loved everything about this book, from start to finish.
We follow Clementine, a book publish, as she is navigating grieving her grandmother and dealing with her apartment that she discovers time travels seven years in the past. Here she meets, Iwan, an aspiring chef that just moved to NYC. As we get glimpses of Clementines life in the present, when she returns to her late grandmothers apartment sometimes she is thrown back seven years with Iwan.
The plot of this book seems confusing but it was masterfully executed, so unique and FUN! The banter and romance in this book are also unmatched. I couldnโt get enough of this love story and was rooting for them the entire time. Both of the time lines were fast paced- I couldnโt wait to see how this book tied everything up at the end.