About the Book- The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
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.
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.
“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
Read on for our review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Our Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Since I had recently read “The Dead Romantics” by the author, I couldn’t help but see this book as an extension of it. No, don’t get me wrong, the plot, characters and settings are all different but somehow the overall feel and treatment of the book felt the same. Like “The Dead Romantics“, this book is also on personal voyages with grief. The only thing is that I loved “The Dead Romantics” more than this one. I feel like the odd one out for not going gaga over this book.
There is no doubt that the plot, the characters and in general it had everything working for it but somehow for me, something felt off that made me not be fully able to immerse into the book. Maybe it’s the narration technique or maybe the logistics of the plot … I don’t know what exactly it was, but something did feel amiss. Like lacking the final ingredient that could have brought it all together.
I am not ashamed to admit that the whole going past and present was a bit hard for me to bite. The whole while I was trying hard to see the logic behind the viability of such a thing. I mean yeah time travel is not a foreign concept but the way the book uses it was a bit confusing for me. Maybe it’s the adornment or poetic narration. Also, the whole setting of this magical house that could bounce you in an off time and its workings was lost on me. So now you can see why I couldn’t enjoy the book because I lost at the very basic concept itself.
Coming to the romance portion, Yes, it was adorable till the time travel things came into play and then I was lost completely. I didn’t know what to expect or even how to feel about the events that unfolded. So basically I guess I kept looking for reasoning and logic in the whole book and maybe that’s why the book was a miss for me.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I would say that maybe I am not the right kind of audience for this book as everybody seems to be in awe of this book and I do like the book but I am not that in awe as much as others. To me, something felt missing in the book. Also, as I said, I failed to understand the basic concept of the book and that just further worsened everything for me in this book. So personally I feel that this book might be different to different readers.
Squirrel Rating
