Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
A Review By: LC
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.
Review Notes:
Audio Book Publication Year: 2021
An installment in a Series? No
Narrator (s): Mela Lee
This book was okay. It definitely wasn't what I thought it would be. Eva and Shane connected in such a weird way, and once they reunite, there are still unresolved issues. They both are beautifully broken.
Warning: these characters form a bond over trauma.
As for the narration, the narrator’s voice was soothing and she really did do a great job trying to bring the characters to life. However, towards the middle of the book, it seems as of she lost momentum.
Reading Recommendation? No
Rating: 2 - It's cool
Content Warnings? Physical abuse/violence, Sexual abuse/violence
