Saturday, August 3, 2024

The Seven Year Slip

 

The Seven Year Slip
by Ashley Poston 
Berkley, 2023. 336 pages. Romance. 

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate - only to discover he lives seven years in the past. 

Since releasing The Dead Romantics in 2022, Poston is on a roll with new and inventive romantic comedies. This is my favorite romance read of 2024 so far, with clever writing that demanded audible laughter. I also enjoyed the reflections on grief, loss, and growth. The Seven Year Slip includes some simple magical realism that takes a new, holistic view of time travel. Poston’s story encourages readers that it’s possible to fall in love with every version of a person. 

If you like The Seven Year Slip, you might also like: 

by Beth O’Leary 
Flatiron Books, 2019. 328 pages. Romance. 

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence. 



by Casey McQuiston 
St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. 422 pages. Romance. 

Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back. 





AB 

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