The Seven Year Slip | ARC Review

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: stay busy, 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.

This The Lake House-esque book was a lovely ode to love, grief, and allowing yourself, and others, to change.

I loved the time travel. It felt fresh but still held some familiar comments I love from time travel stories. Also, the moments of the past meeting present and vice versa were cool.

I feel like there was a lot that went unsaid. In the relationship between. In a particular scene at the end that was just kinda left to the reader’s imagination. The book that they’re publishing of James’. There was so much that I felt like I needed more information or more time with.

I’m not sure how I feel about Clementine being in love with past Iwan, but not knowing that much about present Iwan. There was something odd about it. I knew that was going to be part of the plot going in, but I’d hoped I’d feel okay about it. There was one particular moment that reminded me so much of The Time Traveler’s Wife where present Iwan rejected her so she went to past Iwan. That really rubbed me the wrong way.

We got a little glimpse of our Dead Romantics couple which I will forever be grateful for. It was like saying hello to old friends.

Overall, this was a good book from Poston. She never ceases to write exactly what I’m wanting. This wasn’t my favorite book of hers, but it is at the top of the list.

Disclaimer: I voluntarily read and reviewed a gifted and advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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