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"Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Tia Williams's book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I absolutely loved it." --JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again... Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can't deny their chemistry--or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years. Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect--but Eva's wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered... With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Daysin June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
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One sentence synopsis... Two tragic teenage loves reunite after a decade apart - both are successful authors and have spent years writing their way back to each other.
Read it if you like... toxic codependent relationships. The main characters, Eva and Shane, are self-destructive and have zero character development even though we follow them from high schoolers to 30 year olds. Also if you like extremely of-the-moment pop culture references that are sure to be dated in a year. My personal pet peeve in books is when they make references to celebrity gossip or a current hit TV show, etc. It makes the book feel dated and disposable. Despite all this criticism I still read the book in a day so it gets two stars for being page-turning. If you want a better fun, Black romance try anything Jasmine Guillory or Talia Hibbert.
Dream casting... Logan Browning as romance writer Eva Mercy and Regé-Jean Page as Serious Author TM Shane Hall.
2/5
they literally only knew each other for 7 days and spent the whole time zooted on drugs
this book literally is everything i want in a contemporary romance. this is raw and gritty and real. it deals with real human issues especially those that effect black communities without making it feel like it's a trauma dumping. its realistic. sophisticated, and heartbreakingly beautiful. i love including the aspect of them as authors and them knowing each other as teenagers. this is what colleen hoover wishes it ends with us was. i said what i said.
4.5
This was so good! Audrey is my favorite person