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makaylagrace0's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
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? It's complicated
5.0
I loved this book!!! Finished it in 2 days, perfect length.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, and Pregnancy
Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol
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emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Grief
Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
antidietleah's review
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Cursing, Death, and Suicide
Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol
tigertheory's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Didn’t like this one as much as her previous book, mainly because, once again there were no twist to be surprised by as foreshadowing in Poston's case seems to be more like colorblocking. Also didn’t like the FMC, she keeps waxing on about how well-traveled and experienced she is but never mentions destinations outside the major tourist attractions. She has "eaten her way around the world" but seemingly doesn’t know the first thing about cooking or culinary arts. Also you forgot your ex-boyfriend’s name? What a heartless thing to do. Also the insane amounts of privilege she has and never acknowledges once are just alienating to me.
Overall still a cute story and I loved the idea; I’ll go watch The Lake House now.
Overall still a cute story and I loved the idea; I’ll go watch The Lake House now.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Minor: Cursing and Medical content
alexiiibus's review against another edition
4.0
Would have loved to give five stars, especially because this novel is so finely crafted, but I can't due to the absurd amount of alcohol mentioned. Can the main characters go one day without wine, a martini or a flask at the museum? It was tiring and quite frankly annoying.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, and Alcohol
madnabox's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
If you're a fan of the movie The Lake House, then this book is for you. I liked the characters. The banter was fun. There was just enough tension. I found myself wanting to stay up and listen to it. I resisted, but it was difficult. I'm a sucker for a good time travel story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Alcohol
Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy
noodlesny's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Dementia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
juanat77's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
skillyillian's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Okay i'm not usually a romcom girlie but this one got me. The little bit of magic, wanderlust, romance, banter, and characters just pulled me in and held me tight.
Clementine is stubborn, but funny. Girl does not know the meaning of the word "relax" but she got there eventually. I loved that her job was realistic and detailed, and her hobby was too. It was a really unique, cool hobby, and I loved hearing about it. I wanted to actually see the travel guides. She spends a little too much time dwelling on the past, but that's part of her character development so I still feel like it fit her.
Iwan? Oh my god. obsessed. he's flirty and fun and also very wise? he was just everything. he carried this book without even flinching istg. clementine was great but seeing past iwan and present iwan and learning what got him from point a to point b was insanely well done. i loved, loved, loved his passion for cooking and the way he expressed it, both with words and with the skill itself. 10/10. i loved seeing things he did in the past and guessing how it would manifest in his future.
the characters are well written and feel realistic. clementine had some moments where i was kinda iffy on her, but it didn't ruin anything by any means. she was just a bit dramatic, but isn't that the point of these kinds of books? the big city backdrop was fun, i loved the travel elements too. it was present, like her aunt, but it didn't take the foreground and trample the city. Poston writes grief incredibly well, too. her grandfather passed away from suicide as she was working on this book and you can tell she put her whole heart and all of her pain into clementine's grief for the loss of her aunt. it made me cry.
the time travel, and timing, of the apartment was great. oh, and Mother and Fucker were a key highlight. i loved them so much lmfao. i also really enjoyed that both clementine's friends as well as iwan's had their own lives, their own stories and subplots, going on too. they weren't just cardboard cut-outs.
my only gripe really was that poston got repetitive with a few things here and there. her aunt's two rules for the apartment, the passport covered in enough stamps to make any world traveler jealous, and a few others like that. the flashbacks to her aunt's rules almost felt like they happened as often as a shonen flashback lmao. the characters made some goofy decisions sometimes but they weren't bad enough to ruin the book or anything.
overall, this is a great, fun, flirty read and i loved it so much. the apartment, the characters, the romance, are all really well written. i was giggling and grinning and at one point just screaming in my car because iwan was being,,,,,, WHEW. it was excellent. the narrator for the audiobook, brittany pressley, absolutely killed it with this. her character voices were spot on, to the point of me even forgetting a few times that she wasn't a dude when iwan was talking lmao. she did great. i'll be recommending this book to my friends for sure.
Clementine is stubborn, but funny. Girl does not know the meaning of the word "relax" but she got there eventually. I loved that her job was realistic and detailed, and her hobby was too. It was a really unique, cool hobby, and I loved hearing about it. I wanted to actually see the travel guides. She spends a little too much time dwelling on the past, but that's part of her character development so I still feel like it fit her.
Iwan? Oh my god. obsessed. he's flirty and fun and also very wise? he was just everything. he carried this book without even flinching istg. clementine was great but seeing past iwan and present iwan and learning what got him from point a to point b was insanely well done. i loved, loved, loved his passion for cooking and the way he expressed it, both with words and with the skill itself. 10/10. i loved seeing things he did in the past and guessing how it would manifest in his future.
the characters are well written and feel realistic. clementine had some moments where i was kinda iffy on her, but it didn't ruin anything by any means. she was just a bit dramatic, but isn't that the point of these kinds of books? the big city backdrop was fun, i loved the travel elements too. it was present, like her aunt, but it didn't take the foreground and trample the city. Poston writes grief incredibly well, too. her grandfather passed away from suicide as she was working on this book and you can tell she put her whole heart and all of her pain into clementine's grief for the loss of her aunt. it made me cry.
the time travel, and timing, of the apartment was great. oh, and Mother and Fucker were a key highlight. i loved them so much lmfao. i also really enjoyed that both clementine's friends as well as iwan's had their own lives, their own stories and subplots, going on too. they weren't just cardboard cut-outs.
my only gripe really was that poston got repetitive with a few things here and there. her aunt's two rules for the apartment, the passport covered in enough stamps to make any world traveler jealous, and a few others like that. the flashbacks to her aunt's rules almost felt like they happened as often as a shonen flashback lmao. the characters made some goofy decisions sometimes but they weren't bad enough to ruin the book or anything.
overall, this is a great, fun, flirty read and i loved it so much. the apartment, the characters, the romance, are all really well written. i was giggling and grinning and at one point just screaming in my car because iwan was being,,,,,, WHEW. it was excellent. the narrator for the audiobook, brittany pressley, absolutely killed it with this. her character voices were spot on, to the point of me even forgetting a few times that she wasn't a dude when iwan was talking lmao. she did great. i'll be recommending this book to my friends for sure.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, and Alcohol
Moderate: Pregnancy
yvo_about_books's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
4.25
Finished reading: February 4th 2024
"There was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn't like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they'd live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever."
I LOVED The Dead Romantics last year, and I've been meaning to read more of Ashley Poston ever since... I do love a timeslip romance and I kept hearing fantastic things about The Seven Year Slip, so of course I decided this book would be first. And I ended up having such a great time reading this story! True, it didn't beat The Dead Romantics for me, but it was still a more than solid romance and I loved the magical realism element. The timeslip/magic itself isn't too overpowering, so even if it's not your favorite element this story should still work for you. This has a lot to do with both the writing and the cast of characters, which are fantastic and make it really easy to warm up to this story. Clementine makes for such an interesting character, and while she did frustrate me at times, in this case her flaws somehow worked. I loved her best friends even more though! Such brilliant banter and they really brightened up the plot for me. The romance itself is really well done as well, and it was so great to see their connection grow and the lines between past and present blur. It's not all rainbows and sunshine during the plot, but everything feels well balanced and the character growth is excellent. I also enjoyed how everything was wrapped up in the end, and it's definitely a story that will stay with me for quite some time. Timeslip romance done right, that's for sure!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol