Review: The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston - June 2023
Where to start with this book as it was such an
amazing and beautiful #meetcute story, one of those once in a lifetime
love stories. The type of book that reminded me of a few of my favourite
chick lit and romantic movies which included The Lake House , Just Like
Heaven and Kate and Leopold. The Seven Year Slip had vibes of all those
films with a touch of Sunday at Tiffany's by James Patterson and
Gabrielle Charbonnet which is another one of my favourite magical
realism romances. The book starts when Clementine was a young girl and
her Aunt told her the apartment where she lived was magical, but there
was one rule - don't ever fall in love within the apartment. Her aunt
had a few other rules which Clementine enjoyed and she travelled the
world with her Aunt. That was until her Aunt died and the light in
Clementine faded. The book then jumps to Clementine hanging out with her
friends as they all work in publishing and are scoping out a new
upcoming chef James as they want to do a cookbook memoir with him.
Clementine leaves before she meets the chef but one word leaves his
mouth - Lemon. The book then moves to Clementine opening her eyes and
finds a strange man in her apartment, also the apartment doesn't look
quite right. Turns out she has gone back seven years in time and the man
is Iwan - his grandmother was a friend of her Aunt's and has offered
Iwan to stay at the flat for the Summer. Clem tries not to fall in love
but as the book goes along, we see the sparks fly and how Clem gets the
nickname "Lemon". Of course, for her this is not real - as it was seven
years ago. Back in the present, Clementine runs and discovers her Iwan
is in fact the famous Chef James. Has life and fate given them a second
chance ? I also loved the connection of Iwan to Vera who had her own
Magical Apartment time with Clementine's Aunt decades earlier. If you
are in the mood for a great #meetcute read , then you need to add The
Seven Year Slip's to your reading lists as you will finish wanting this
to translate to a movie.
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