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A review by jenbsbooks
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
4.75
I really enjoyed this ... a lighter rom/com (although there are some serious moments), a little time travel, which the title and blurb indicate, but this was one I'd put on hold, and then just started without looking into what it was about. There was some language (proFanity x 36) and some sex, not super explicit, but not closed door either. So depending on if those content concerns are a deal breaker or not, this is one I would absolutely recommend.
One of the characters is a chef - so there is quite a bit of cooking talk. My family had just been enjoying a skirt steak (prepared by my man) and talked about how it wasn't one many were familiar with (it's a favorite in our family now). I mentioned I had come across it in a book before, and then, here it was again "the beef was tender - it must have been flank or skirt, so juicy it melted in my mouth..." The name Grayson also made an appearance (Hub's name, so something I note).
Time travel is always a complicated and mind-boggling. Here, I never knew when that moment was in the "present" where she realized he knew, that she must have told him at some point (she hadn't yet) and that he'd believed her. I felt like something was lacking, that it needed a bigger moment. There was another storyline that seemed to be introduced, then dropped, and not addressed ...
This was just an enjoyable read, a little lighter, with some laughter and sweetness, a little romance. There were some quoteables, I went with the audio edition (Brittany Pressley narrating, and her name and voice are familiar, but as I looked through her other titles ... and there are a LOT, I couldn't place which one I'd listened to recently that made her sound so familiar). Available at the library, but popular, so I had a wait.
1st person. Past tense.
One of the characters is a chef - so there is quite a bit of cooking talk. My family had just been enjoying a skirt steak (prepared by my man) and talked about how it wasn't one many were familiar with (it's a favorite in our family now). I mentioned I had come across it in a book before, and then, here it was again "the beef was tender - it must have been flank or skirt, so juicy it melted in my mouth..." The name Grayson also made an appearance (Hub's name, so something I note).
Time travel is always a complicated and mind-boggling. Here, I never knew when that moment was in the "present" where she realized he knew, that she must have told him at some point (she hadn't yet) and that he'd believed her. I felt like something was lacking, that it needed a bigger moment. There was another storyline that seemed to be introduced, then dropped, and not addressed ...
This was just an enjoyable read, a little lighter, with some laughter and sweetness, a little romance. There were some quoteables, I went with the audio edition (Brittany Pressley narrating, and her name and voice are familiar, but as I looked through her other titles ... and there are a LOT, I couldn't place which one I'd listened to recently that made her sound so familiar). Available at the library, but popular, so I had a wait.
1st person. Past tense.