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The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston

4.26 AVERAGE

lexicrank's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

I think this was the best rom-com I’ve ever read!

nadouch22_'s review against another edition

4.75

I have a love-hate relationship with books that make me ugly cry and this became one of them, the writing is so beautiful i was obsessed, the plot was pretty interesting and i loved the depiction of grief in this, i was scared of the ending but then i’m glad it all wrapped up well otherwise i would have haunted Ashley Poston in her sleep

midnightcat_2's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ka_ma's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Content Warnings

abik505's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3 stars

How are you gonna be in a love triangle with the same guy???💀

Okay, where do I start? I liked the writing style of this, there were moments that were a bit emotional and I liked the ending. I liked the friend characters. But…

This was just ALL over the place. I got so confused, and I really think it was a pacing issue rather than a me issue (actually maybe not because this book is rated so highly… well, I don’t care. I didn’t like the pacing.) The first third was so boring. Once “James” got introduced and we got more stuff about his cookbook, it became more interesting.

Clementine: she was changing her mind about everything every two seconds. “I love Iwan” (after they’d spent a total of maybe 2 days max with one another) “I can’t love Iwan” “I love my job” “I hate my job”. There were so many details we were told about her but none of them seemed connected. I found it super annoying how she was so unfair on Iwan that he changed because “he’s not the guy I knew, how did he change so fast” IT WASNT FAST! IT WAS 7 SECONDS AGO FOR YOU AND 7 YEARS FOR HIM! “B-but I haven’t changed since then!” Well yeah, again because it’s been about 7 minutes.💀Also she didn’t try to call her Aunt or send her a letter anything while she was back in the past? I get that this is a romance but come on. The Aunt was mentioned at least every second or third page, so… why? She got immediately so swept up into this bland red headed dude that she forgot about her Aunt literally immediately after telling herself over and over to not fall in love? Honestly I just found her annoying and couldn’t resonate with her most of the time. Also I found it kinda funny when she had her realisation moment that Iwan is the guy she bumped into at the restaurant and it was supposed to be finding out along with the reader when I’m pretty sure we all caught that’s who he was literally the second it happened in the first chapter (at least i did).

Iwan/James: …..meh.
He was just boring. All I know about him is that he had a grandpa and has a whisk tattoo. I didn’t really like him at the start, I didn’t really like him at the end. He was just… bland. And I think this is really what it comes down to. If I don’t like the main characters then I probably won’t like the book that much or root for them to be together. In my opinion their chemistry was close to non existent. He also had little to no reaction to the whole seven year slip thing, and also barely found it weird that she was sleeping with and kissing his past self? That’s soooo weird. Why does it kinda feel like she was cheating on him with himself and why was he fine with it? Hes changed a lot since emotionally and physically so it’s basically a different person. I just.. idk. It feels like selfcest. And how didn’t he notice anything weird when they went to the park and she just disappeared as soon as they got outside the door? Like.. come on😐

I just found the whole thing really confusing, there were things that he’d experienced seven years ago that he was kinda using against her but that she hadn’t experienced yet, but he knew about this? He knew about the seven year slip but he… idk my brain’s hurting. Also what was the whole thing about “never fall in love they never stay”. If the Aunt and Vera stayed on touch, what was the reason why they couldn’t be together? Wdym “they never stay”? She litro did bro you were writing letters to each other, and YOU CHOSE to leave. Why even have this in here when 1. It’s not a rule that was followed by anyone involved and 2. It’s not even true. Cause the whole thing with Clementine and Iwan was meant to revolve around “oh we can’t be together cause I can’t fall in love with you” but that was never a reason in the first place because she never followed the rule? She said near the end “I’m going to break this rule just once” like girlipops you never followed the damn rule in the first place don’t act all heroic now🤦🏼‍♀️

ALSO WHERE WERE THE STAKES???? There was no reason they couldn’t be together the entire time (se met previous point)! And she knew who he was, they’d met so many times in current day! If Clementine just got over herself they probably could’ve been together by halfway through. The cookbook thing wasn’t even really relevant either to why they couldn’t be together.

So you might be asking, if I disliked the pacing and characters so much, then why did I give it 3 stars? Honestly, I don’t know. I think I liked the basic concept of it (even if it was done poorly imo) and the writing style was kind of nice, the background characters were likeable too. Idk, I think I’m just overly critical lol. I’m open to reading another Ashley Poston book but I think only if it’s not magical realism because the magical realism wasn’t magical realisming

forever_rain's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lexiconnors's review against another edition

4.0

lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

good quick cute romancey. 7 husbands of evelyn hugo meets the bear meets classic romance. honestly it was predictable and the writing was good but not amazing.