The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston, 2023
Romance FantasyContemporary fiction
A publicist who plans everything inherits her late aunt's apartment and finds a man in her kitchen who is living seven years in the past. A warm, witty read with a wistful edge, moving quickly through humor and family tenderness toward a tug of longing.
Feels like longing, humor and tenderness. About love, family and home.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with a light speculative twist and a heroine who likes a plan. The time-slip premise asks you to accept its rules rather than look for hard science-fiction explanations.
Why read it
It offers a tender, funny escape about timing, grief and opening up to chance, with the pleasure of watching two lives overlap in one kitchen.
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Some people are simply at home in the world. The rest of us watch them.
It must have worked for her, because it never mattered where she was in the world, she was home. She waltzed through life like she belonged at every party she was never invited to, fell in love with every lonely heart she found, and found luck in every adventure. She had that air about her-tourists asked her for directions when she went abroad, servers asked her opinion on wines and fine whiskeys, celebrities asked her about her life. Ashley Poston.Poston made her adult debut with The Dead Romantics; before that she wrote the YA Once Upon a Con series, which began with Geekerella.
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Questions readers ask
- Is The Seven Year Slip for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with a light speculative twist and a heroine who likes a plan. The time-slip premise asks you to accept its rules rather than look for hard science-fiction explanations.
- What is The Seven Year Slip like?
- A warm, witty read with a wistful edge, moving quickly through humor and family tenderness toward a tug of longing. Feels like longing, humor and tenderness. About love, family and home.
- What should I read after The Seven Year Slip?
- If you liked The Seven Year Slip, try The Ex Hex (Erin Sterling), Great Big Beautiful Life (Emily Henry) and Flawless (Elsie Silver).
A taste of the feed
The kiss that makes the years before it feel like sleep.
What Rhys knew was that kissing her had felt like waking up. Like he’d been drifting sleepily through everything for the past nine years until he tasted her mouth again and remembered what actually being alive felt like. Better than any magic, Vivienne’s kiss.
The Ex Hex · Erin Sterling
The compliment that sounds like an insult until it isn’t.
I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.” I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.” “I’d like that,” he says.
Great Big Beautiful Life · Emily Henry
How quickly a joke about taking a bullet stops being a joke.
Please don’t cry. I fucking hate it when you cry. It’s like a bullet to my chest.” “Taken many bullets, have you?” My voice is weak, and I hate that. “No,” he husks, “but I would. For you, I would.
Flawless · Elsie Silver
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