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supermormongirl's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
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? Yes
5.0
Literally everything you could ever ask for in a book 💛✨🍋🍊🍋✨💛
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Death of a loved one (close aunt who is more like a parent)beebowbabe's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
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? Yes
5.0
I very well may spend the rest of my life chasing the high from one Ashley Poston book to the next 💛
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Grief
Moderate: Death and Suicide
charitytinnin's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
This book (both premise and execution) is magical. It was most everything I hoped it would be with an added exploration of grief that I thought was so well done. I wanted a little more time with our couple in the end to really sit in those emotions which is why it doesn’t get a full 5 stars from me, but it was so close.
Update: I can’t stop thinking about this book. I want everyone to read it but can’t give up my copy to anyone else in case I want to reread it. Definitely 5 stars (5/19/2024)
Update: I can’t stop thinking about this book. I want everyone to read it but can’t give up my copy to anyone else in case I want to reread it. Definitely 5 stars (5/19/2024)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide
Minor: Cursing
Just for information: I don’t normally tag the cursing content warning but there was one use of profanity in this book that took me by surprise because it came late in the book and felt unnecessary/out of character so it stood out to me….?antidietleah's review against another edition
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
scfrederick33's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Suicide
tabea1409's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
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? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, 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
samanthabryan34's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
3.5 ⭐️ A cute (but very predictable) story about a magical apartment that puts Clementine 7 years into the past. The main reason this lost some stars for me is I found the main character slightly miserable, which I get that her aunt died but I found her grief taking over more of the plot line than I would have liked. Otherwise I loved Iwan, the theme of accepting change, and the amount of 🔥 (present but not too graphic)
⚠️ language
⚠️ language
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing and Grief
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Sexual content and Pregnancy
skillyillian's review against another edition
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