genre: contemporary romance/time slip
Clementine is a career-focused publicist, good at her job and proud of how far she's come. Even with all the pleasure she's finding at work, though, a gaping loss is leaving her at odds with everything she's always loved. Here is where the time slip part of the book comes in: the apartment that her aunt left to her in her will is actually a finicky portal in time that takes certain residents back in time seven years. And seven years ago, in Clementine's apartment, is a young and ambitious cook who wants to be a chef - and soon seven years seems like hardly anything at all and also everything, at the same time.
This is a fast paced romance with a dreamy love interest and a deeply grieving main character. Her grief is a big part of this story and how Clementine shows up in the world and in her relationships. I have to be honest, this book's writing is super repetitive. I heard certain phrases SO many times that I just really wanted the author to stretch. I just could NOT suspend my disbelief enough, for some reason. I think because my brain just had so many questions about how the time slip could work and I couldn't sort them out. So for a fun story to pass the time, it really did that. My weekend chores flew by as I listened. But as a written work, it didn't live up for me as much as other books in the genre.
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