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HQ (2023), 347 pages
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"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookRiot ∙ and more! 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. 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: 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.… (more)
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LibraryThing member jmoura01
In this magically romantic book, Clementine lives in the apartment of her recently deceased aunt. Her life is filled with work and grief she feels for the loss of her aunt. Clementine is shocked when she comes home one day to find a stranger in the apartment, as well as all her aunt’s old
Clementine begins to look forward to Iwan’s sporadic time travel visits and falls in love with the handsome aspiring chef, though she knows they can’t be together. In the present day, their lives begin to collide, but Iwan is 7 years older now and has changed from the boy she fell in love with.
I absolutely fell in love with Iwan myself. I wish the latter part of the story had more interaction with the older Iwan, but it was still so good. A great follow up to Ashley Poston’s wonderful “The Dead Romantics”.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for this complimentary ARC. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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furniture. She soon realizes those stories her aunt told her about the magical apartment were true and the stranger, Iwan, is living life 7 years in the past. Clementine begins to look forward to Iwan’s sporadic time travel visits and falls in love with the handsome aspiring chef, though she knows they can’t be together. In the present day, their lives begin to collide, but Iwan is 7 years older now and has changed from the boy she fell in love with.
I absolutely fell in love with Iwan myself. I wish the latter part of the story had more interaction with the older Iwan, but it was still so good. A great follow up to Ashley Poston’s wonderful “The Dead Romantics”.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for this complimentary ARC. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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LibraryThing member Carolesrandomlife
I loved this book so much! I wanted the world to go away while I was reading this novel so that I could completely lose myself in this story. Clementine is incredibly close to her free-spirited aunt and inherits her aunt’s apartment after her death. This isn’t just a normal New York apartment.
I loved Clementine and Iwan and thought that they seemed perfectly matched if they could just get the timing right. I had such a hard time putting this book down and couldn’t wait to see this pair figure out how to find their happily ever after. Watching Clementine and Iwan together was wonderful, almost magical. I thought that the chemistry between them was palpable. I thought that the time slip of the apartment was incredibly well done and added a unique and original element to the story.
I would highly recommend this book to others. I fell in love with the characters in this book and found many moments that melted my heart. I thought that the issue of grief was handled very well. I will definitely be reading more of this author’s work in the future.
I received a digital review copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group.
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This apartment sometimes sends you back to a time 7 years earlier which is where she meets Iwan.I loved Clementine and Iwan and thought that they seemed perfectly matched if they could just get the timing right. I had such a hard time putting this book down and couldn’t wait to see this pair figure out how to find their happily ever after. Watching Clementine and Iwan together was wonderful, almost magical. I thought that the chemistry between them was palpable. I thought that the time slip of the apartment was incredibly well done and added a unique and original element to the story.
I would highly recommend this book to others. I fell in love with the characters in this book and found many moments that melted my heart. I thought that the issue of grief was handled very well. I will definitely be reading more of this author’s work in the future.
I received a digital review copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group.
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LibraryThing member spiritedstardust
The rating is pretty much for the plot idea and the buts that were to do with losing someone you love.
Otherwise I was actually bored for a lot of it and I was frustrated at the conflict - like 7 years ain’t a lot, you can figure it out.
Otherwise I was actually bored for a lot of it and I was frustrated at the conflict - like 7 years ain’t a lot, you can figure it out.
LibraryThing member wagner.sarah35
This romance featuring a magical apartment which brings lovers together across a seven-year time gap makes for light reading. I enjoyed Clementine and Iwan's story (especially the food descriptions!) and loved the light-hearted banter among friends. This was a quick read and left me want to find
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LibraryThing member shazjhb
Speculative fiction. Interesting messages. Nice characters.
LibraryThing member nyiper
What a perfectly delightfully written story.....but I happened to turn to the back of the book to find Ashley's description of the death of her grandfather while she was putting this book together. I'm glad I read that as I kept reading about the wonderful "Slip." With her own heartache in the
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background ....did it somehow make the book even better?? This was SO good...perhaps it did. I love time travel books and this was a clever and very special twist on that idea. Show Less
LibraryThing member TerryWeyna
Clementine works as a book publicist, dealing with long hours and the difficulties of authors on tour, single-mindedly focused on one day heading up her department. Who has time for anything else? She and her boyfriend break up when she cancels one too many dates, claiming she has to deal with a
What's really going on with her, though, is that Clementine's aunt Analea died recently -- the aunt she adored, who whisked her all over the world. They loved each other extravagantly, Clementine and Analea, and Clementine only has her aunt's apartment left. She almost reluctantly moves into the apartment, trying to make it her own, but it seems as unhappy a place as it's possible to be these days.
So imagine Clementine's surprise when she returns to the apartment one night to find a man there, younger than herself, someone her aunt offered the apartment to rent free while he finds his way in the New York culinary world. Only the summer for which she offered the apartment was seven years ago, and Iwan -- that handsome young man -- is five years younger than she is, just setting foot in New York after finishing up at the Culinary Institute and looking for a job as a dishwasher at a highly-rated restaurant as a way to get his foot in the door.
Clementine and Iwan have immediate chemistry, but Clementine remembers her aunt telling her about the time slip and how it was never a good idea to fall in love in that apartment. And then things get worse: Clementine meets Iwan in the present day, and he seems to very different from the young, vital, exciting Iwan in the apartment. How will this resolve?
The Seven Year Slip is a delightful book, one easy to get lost in as an evening wears on. I loved every minute of it, even though I'm not usually a contemporary romance sort of gal (Regency romance being my preferred flavor). Even better than the excellent plot and the lovely language, though, is the deep thinking that Clementine finds herself entertaining as the days go by. What is love, really, and how do we go on loving someone over the course of years? How does one let go of a dream about one's career? How does one go about being happy?
It's all so very well done that I will immediately dive into Poston's first novel, The Dead Romantics, which I missed when it first came out a couple of years ago -- and I'm already looking forward to what she'll publish in 2024. This is a fine author to add to your must-read list, I think, even though I'm going on the basis on a single novel -- she's just such a fine writer.
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work emergency. She didn't love him anyway, and after a few months the relationship had run its course.What's really going on with her, though, is that Clementine's aunt Analea died recently -- the aunt she adored, who whisked her all over the world. They loved each other extravagantly, Clementine and Analea, and Clementine only has her aunt's apartment left. She almost reluctantly moves into the apartment, trying to make it her own, but it seems as unhappy a place as it's possible to be these days.
So imagine Clementine's surprise when she returns to the apartment one night to find a man there, younger than herself, someone her aunt offered the apartment to rent free while he finds his way in the New York culinary world. Only the summer for which she offered the apartment was seven years ago, and Iwan -- that handsome young man -- is five years younger than she is, just setting foot in New York after finishing up at the Culinary Institute and looking for a job as a dishwasher at a highly-rated restaurant as a way to get his foot in the door.
Clementine and Iwan have immediate chemistry, but Clementine remembers her aunt telling her about the time slip and how it was never a good idea to fall in love in that apartment. And then things get worse: Clementine meets Iwan in the present day, and he seems to very different from the young, vital, exciting Iwan in the apartment. How will this resolve?
The Seven Year Slip is a delightful book, one easy to get lost in as an evening wears on. I loved every minute of it, even though I'm not usually a contemporary romance sort of gal (Regency romance being my preferred flavor). Even better than the excellent plot and the lovely language, though, is the deep thinking that Clementine finds herself entertaining as the days go by. What is love, really, and how do we go on loving someone over the course of years? How does one let go of a dream about one's career? How does one go about being happy?
It's all so very well done that I will immediately dive into Poston's first novel, The Dead Romantics, which I missed when it first came out a couple of years ago -- and I'm already looking forward to what she'll publish in 2024. This is a fine author to add to your must-read list, I think, even though I'm going on the basis on a single novel -- she's just such a fine writer.
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LibraryThing member ethel55
Clementine has inherited her aunt Analea's apartment after her unexpected death. It was a magical place when she was a girl, made more so by a vivacious aunt to who loved to take her travelling, inspired her painting and told her about the magic in the apartment. One day, a young man turns up in
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the apartment to stay for part of the summer, his mom being an old friend of Analea's. Clementine notices the furniture and the fun begins as Iwan continues to show up seven years in the past. There are pigeons, lots of good food as Iwan starts his journey to becoming a chef and book talk from Clementine's job as a book publicist. It was good and a lot more emotional than I thought it may be moving from the past to the present day of Clementine's life, where she is grieving her aunt and at a crossroads with work. Show Less
LibraryThing member electrascaife
Clementine has inherited her beloved aunt’s NYC apartment, and as she unpacks her boxes and tries to figure out how to come to terms with her grief, she soon finds herself also trying to remember – and life by – the two rules her aunt set down for her about the apartment (which, by the way,
A sweet little romance with a neat premise. No real depths here, but the story is fun and decently written. If you like this sort of thing, you’ll like this.
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if magical): 1) Always take your shoes off, and 2) Never fall in love with whomever you may find when you walk in the door. It only takes a few days before Clementine needs to put Rule #2 into practice, when she comes home to find a strange man in her apartment and quickly realizes that the magic has happened to her: the apartment transported her back in time 7 years. Can she keep herself from falling in love with a man she knows she’ll lose again very soon, and if he loves her, then why hasn’t he tried to find her in the present? And would he be the same person?A sweet little romance with a neat premise. No real depths here, but the story is fun and decently written. If you like this sort of thing, you’ll like this.
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LibraryThing member rmarcin
I loved this story about Clementine, a frazzled publicist, who is grieving her Aunt Analea's death. Analea left her unique apartment to Clementine - it has a secret. It also has 2 rules, 1. remove your shoes, 2. don't fall in love in the apartment. After an evening out with her friends, Clementine
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heads to the apartment to find a young man, Iwan, there. He says her aunt allowed him to sublet it. Clementine knows her aunt died 6 mos. earlier, she realizes that it is 7 years earlier. She and Iwan almost instantly mesh, he calls her Lemon. They tell each other about themselves and fall in love. But, when she leaves the apt., he is gone when she returns. In the present day, they meet again. He is famous chef, James Ashton, and has changed dramatically. Are they able to make it work when they live in the same time? Love, grief, being true to oneself-are all in this beautiful story. Show Less
LibraryThing member Mav-n-Libby
Super cute book and I just love me some time travel too! Really cute romance novel. I would say the only negative about this book was I didn't really feel the connection between the characters. Like I wanted them to get together, but I can't say I was like swooning over them. But overall, I found
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the story fun, and time travel always takes my brain a bit to figure out what is happening and who knows what at what time. I'm glad they hooked up in the end! This book also dealt with death, of the main character losing her aunt. Very solid four star read! Show Less
LibraryThing member bookczuk
Really liked The Dead Romantics by this same author. This wasn't quite as engaging for me (well, Iwan was, and the concept, but it didn't flow as easily for me.) Still time travel concepts fascinate me. 2024 read.
Awards
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — June 2023)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Adults (Romance — 2023)
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Original publication date
2023-07-04
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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.