Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again... From the author of The Perfect Find, this is a witty, romantic, and sexy-as-hell new novel of two writers and their second chance at love.

Brooklynite 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 literary author 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 past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.

Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered. . .

With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual. 

A unique story about love and forgiveness. With a captivating style, Tia Williams tells the past and present story of Eva and Shane and the connection they have. For Seven Days in June, they live an intense romance that has the power of destroying them.
When I first heard about this book, I never thought I would end up enjoying it so much. It is a different story: characters that are complex and that have so much history (individually and between them), a plot that is interesting, and a writing style that mesmerizes you and that keeps you reading for hours. Eva and Shane are both great main characters, with flaws and fears that feel authentic. Audre was amazing and I loved her relationship with Eva.
The story is not a light romance but it does not feel heavy either. It has fun moments, drama and some raunchy scenes too. Being both writers, Eva and Shane share with us some aspects of their careers, and it was a part I enjoyed reading too.
What I liked the most about Seven Days in June is how intense and raw are Eva and Shane’s feelings. Williams did an amazing job portraying their past and present selves and all the feelings they have about life, loss and for each other.
I did not know that to expect about the ending but I liked the way things were, it felt real, but I would have liked this to develop maybe in more length.
Considered me now a fan of Tia Williams, I am definitely looking forward to reading more of her work.

DRC thanks to Netgalley and publisher

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