The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Kindle & Audible: US or CA
Morning Readers & Happy Friday!
& thank goodness it is Friday! This week was off to a rough start with construction crews working on the barn knocking out my hydro & busting a tire on construction materials, but we survived! Best part is I’m able to end this week on a high note!
‘The Seven Year Slip’ was a reread and, dare I say, even better the second time around. Breadcrumbs, everywhere! I’d had no idea reading it through the first time, but as I went through it again, I was just as intrigued!
Clementine’s Aunt has always told her magical stories about her apartment sending her back in time, hard to believe, until it happens to her. Suddenly, she’s at a cross roads and staring down a strange man standing in the kitchen of her aunt’s apartment.
Genuinely, of all the books that I’ve read this year so far, this one would be my top recommendation for the perfect weekend beach read! It’s an easy, engaging read that gently pulls you in, unfolding into a heartfelt, charming story. The character development is great, the writing style is easy to follow and just… ugh, so good.
Loving these quotes, especially the second one down had me GIGGLING!
“A sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met”
“He was a little taller than I was, and gangly, but I had nails and the will to live. I could take him. Miss Congeniality taught me to sing, and I was nothing if not a prepared, depressed millennial.”
“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”
“There was a gap between early twenties and late twenties that only people existing in bodies in their late twenties understood. You could still fight god, but you’d have to ice your knees afterward.”
“She lived like she was dying, the taste of mortality on her tongue. I used to love the way she saw the world, always as one last breath before the end, drinking in everything as if she never would again, and maybe I still loved bits of that. I loved how she spent every moment making a memory, every second living wide and full”
“Life doesn’t always go as planned. The trick is to make the most of it when it doesn’t”
“You’ll be happiest when you’re on your own adventure. Not Analea’s, not whoever you’re dating, not everyone who thinks you should do what you’re supposed to do- yours.”
“That was love, wasn’t it? It wasn’t just a quick drop- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn’t something you could plan for. Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together. And I loved this man so much”
As always, I am a sucker for a ‘realistic’ ending that doesn’t feel rushed or like the author’s just trying to tie up loose ends. I think this might actually be my favourite ending so far (sorry Nora!).
Spoiler because I just HAVE to gush about the end.
I adore when a character doesn’t have to choose between themselves and their love interest. When the character development is so well done, that in the end there’s no ‘choice’ but there’s also no straight up happy ending. It feels real. It feels like life in all of its messiness and unknowns.
I hope everyone had a great week and don’t forget to check the giveaway page for this weeks eBook giveaway, Happy Reading!
-Anna R.
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Kindle & Audible: US or CA
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