Book Blurb:
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.
My Review: 4 stars
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston was a strong follow-up to the last book I read by this author, The Dead Romantics. Both contain a dose magic, whimsy and romance.
Poston’s writing is sharp and her banter is funny and relatable. Using magical realism to create characters that meet seven years in the past and seven years into the future couldn’t have been easy. There’s a fine line to making that seem believable versus ridiculous. Fortunately, Poston employed the former.
I liked Clementine and the special relationship she had with her aunt however the musings of their travels often got to be too much for me. I loved the foodie aspect of the book, and the perfect lemon pie stole my heart! Yum. I wished we had more time with Iwan. He was charming and good to the bones.
I’m certain that I’ll continue to read and/or listen to her adult novels. This was a sweet romance with a bit of time bending that allowed the reader to fully escape.
Quotes I liked:
I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
“Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together.”
“You only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.”
“If you don’t fit in, fool everyone until you do.”
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