The Fictional Boyfriend With the Southern Charm: The Seven Year Slip Book Review
- vstn222
- Oct 15, 2023
- 2 min read
Falling in love with a fictional character to the point where your heart swells the moment you read their name, is what this book, The Seven Year Slip will have you doing.
Clementine West, after the death of her aunt, Analea, finds herself trying to juggle a lot: trying her harder at to come to terms with her aunt’s death m; her career as a publicist and figuring out what she wants her life to be.
Talk about a beautiful love story. It’s not only about a romantic love of two people who cross paths years in the past and years in the now, but it’s a love story of discovering what a person wants to be in their life and how past events eventually shape them.
I fell in love with Iwan the moment Clementine woke up to see him in her apartment. Their interactions went from bewilderment to easily slipping into wanting to know more about one another. And when he went right into nicknaming her Lemon and guessing her favorite color, I melted.
During those shifts in time, Clementine, gradually leads Iwan into becoming the man that he’s set out to be in her present and Iwan slowly learns that his “Lemon” very well may be the girl who got away.
Every time they were apart, my heart ached for them. I didn’t want her to leave the apartment. My heart soared whenever they reconnected because they seem to effortlessly pick up where they left off, yet, when they were together, they learn more than they could ever imagine about one another.
Clementine, found herself discovering who she is along the way, thanks to her times with Iwan. When her asks her, “Don’t you ever color outside the lines, Lemon.”, he was telling her to take a chance and embrace the risks. She put herself in her work to block out dealing with loss and denying herself pure joy.
I love how supporting characters in the book and how they weave Clementine and Iwan even more closer together, even when they ache for one another in their past. It’s really mentioned when Clementine is introduced to Iwan’s friends Miguel and Isa. I loved Drew and Fiona, who want nothing but the best for Clementine.
Ashley Poston beautifully placed key moments through out the book to make you connect a bigger picture that you gradually start to notice with each character and how they connect Clementine and Iwan in the then and the now.
I couldn’t put this book down. It tugged at my heart from the very 1st time slip and I fell so in love with this story.
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