The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston ~ Book Review

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪.5
Genre: Romance/Magical Realism
Similar to: In Five Years

After the death of her aunt, Clementine moves into her aunt’s apartment; the apartment she was always told is magic. One day, she returns to it to find a strange man, Iwan, there, claiming to be renting the space from her aunt for the summer. As Clementine gets to know him, she simultaneously realizes that she’s falling for him and that he exists seven years in the past.

I lovvvve a book with a whisper of magical realism in an otherwise normal reality. It took me a minute to understand the premise of this one, but once it clicked I was enchanted.

The chemistry between Iwan and Clementine was sooo palpable. I loved that it was fostered in the haven of the magic apartment in the past and forced to be confined there until they crossed paths again seven years later.

Clementine is struggling to come to terms with existing in a world without her aunt and grief plays into her narrative so palpably and painfully. She also finds herself at a crossroads in her career and all of these facets made her a complex, well-rounded character who I found myself rooting for.

The only piece of this story I didn’t absolutely adore was the ending which felt like it rushed to tie up all the loose ends. Nonetheless, I’ll definitely reread this one to be re-immersed in the magical world Poston created.

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