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A review by abookishmagpie
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book has leaped right onto my list of all-time favorite books. I was captured by Poston's purply prose she used throughout the book to describe things visually as well as the smells and tastes of things. Clementine is an engaging and lovable character who we get to see grow a lot from many different scenarios she is facing in her life, and I loved getting to see her romance flourish and bloom as well as the dynamics she had with her friends and especially the relationship between her and her aunt. Poston in her last two novels has now mastered this ability to present concepts that seem like they will be impossible to provide a true happy ending with these sweet, romantic and moving stories. In this one Clementine comes home to her new apartment, that was her late aunt's home where she spent many summers and finds a mysterious man in it who just happens to be living seven years in the past. So, we see Clementine have to balance this bizarre and unique situation at home while also facing some major life moments at work and with her path in life in the present.
It sounds like a hilariously wacky plot that has no chance of working, but it does. Man, does it. I was laughing and swooning and sobbing many times throughout and I couldn't stop reading it till I was done and had found out where Clementine's story ended. I thought the topics discussed (which yes can be extremely heavy so just a warning to check for trigger warnings) were handled so well and with such eloquent words to describe the feelings of the characters. I knew from about half way through it was going to be a five star, but by the end I just knew it was something I was going to purchase my own copy to have on my shelves and return to many times in the future.
It sounds like a hilariously wacky plot that has no chance of working, but it does. Man, does it. I was laughing and swooning and sobbing many times throughout and I couldn't stop reading it till I was done and had found out where Clementine's story ended. I thought the topics discussed (which yes can be extremely heavy so just a warning to check for trigger warnings) were handled so well and with such eloquent words to describe the feelings of the characters. I knew from about half way through it was going to be a five star, but by the end I just knew it was something I was going to purchase my own copy to have on my shelves and return to many times in the future.