A review by trinityb2021
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

4.0

4 ⭐️

I was somewhere between a 4 and 4.5 for this book but because 1. i don’t think it’ll stick with me and 2. it wasn’t as good of a ROMANCE book as just a contemporary book, i decided to round down to 4.

I think the explorations of grief, goodbyes, coping with loss were excellent. maybe a bit cliche but I still think they were executed well.

I know i said it wasn’t a good romance book but that’s not because it wasn’t romantic. It was really heartwarming and cute. I just didn’t think the romance was that well executed. Honestly i think it’s because of the weird magic realism element. It made for a great vessel to communicate coping with grief but it hindered the feasible connection the two characters could have in a reasonably lengthed romance novel.

The whole arc for James is very basic, BUT I still really liked it. The slipping through time, falling in love with different versions of each other, was super unique and I loved that. It leads to some really weird and funny moments in the past and present that I loved. I almost wish that at one point we had slipped 7 years into the future and gotten more character growth that way. Alas, it’s romance so it was doomed to be short. I gladly would’ve spent another 100 or so pages exploring this world/apartment. The characters were compelling and the story was well written.