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Seven Days in June
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Seven days to fall in love, 15 years to forget and seven days to get it all back again....
Eva Mercy is a single mother and best-selling 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 unexpectedly in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 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 Days in June is a hilarious, romantic and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
Critic reviews
"A smart, sexy testament to Black joy [...] I absolutely loved it." (Jodi Picoult)
"A vision of life as it truly is: complications and difficulties punctuated by profound joy." (Rumaan Alam)
"A hugely satisfying romance that is electric and alive." (Kirkus)
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- R
- 30-07-21
Cheesy and cringeworthy at times
I think the best thing about this book was how well it depicted creole culrure and transported you to hit Louisiana locations. The love story itself however was a bit random and extremely cheesy.
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- KBee
- 15-08-21
People say it’s black joy but it’s black truth
I’ve seen many reviews that say this story is about black joy. I wouldn’t say that, there is joy, but there is also honest depths of emotion, while we journey into the discovery of self of our amazing characters. We spend time learning, battles of loneliness vs Love and honestly I hope this book brings about more generational Triumphs. And audre reminds me of so many amazing young people I meet everyday it’s so beautiful to have a story that spans living generations of amazing women, and from a story about writers. This was special I could stop listening.
The audio was amazing, and I love little Audre coming to life. I just made sense
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- Florence
- 11-03-24
Hard hitting & beautiful
The audio of this book was fantastic! Really able to distinguish each character with the voice developments which is very important!
As for the story itself, it was beautifully written and focused on hard hitting topics such as generational curses that needed to be broken. However, I’m not sure what it was but something was missing from the reconnection of Eva and Shane. But it’s definitely a book I’d recommend and read again!
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- Angel
- 21-02-24
Great fic!
This is a very well written and well performed. Mix of romance, drama and comedy. A colourful novel with a good mix of characters. Would recommend!
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- Joseph Hallam
- 20-02-24
Spicier than expected, but real through and through
Romances are not usually my forte, but this was sensual and stimulating in a way I didn't forsee, while also being a lovingly put together story of the black experience.
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- Vi
- 26-01-24
Great
Struggled to get into it but I am glad I stuck with it and didn't want it to end.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-24
Overhyped
I was so excited to dive into this book after all the hype but it was sadly not for me. On a positive note I loved how the author emphasised Evas invisible debilitating condition (migraines) suffering dreadfully myself I related to this so much and how people brush it off as “just a headache”.The story would have been a lot better if the focus had been on the role chronic pain played in Eva and Shane's stories as I know how debilitating and difficult they are it’s enough to carry the story. Rather focusing on very heavy traumas which were never actually dealt with deeply. What I didn’t like was how the childhood traumas and triggers in the book were revisited in rose tinted glasses - A deeply unhealthy codependent teenage love storyline. I was not able to envision how two young people spending a week enabling each other in toxic behaviour is love. When we go 15 years into the future - Shane is sober and has rekindled a "feeling” he had with Eva which it’s later described as a childhood sweetheart relationship (having been in one myself for 3 years I can say it’s definitely not) which to me was toxic and harmful and included a 7 day haze spent high and drunk. A quote which stuck out to me was “Who knew when he would be stable enough” if Eva is aware of this and speculates Shane is replacing drugs with her as his new addiction, then why as a single mother would she not protect herself and her daughter from Shanes past demons. After all what does Eva know of this man really. When Eva states “She got love right” and proceeds to talk about a man from 15 years ago and not her daughter it’s when I gave up on the book.
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- Mr C McDonald
- 06-01-24
Brilliant!
Loved this book, delightful, intellectually written, emotional and funny too! The take away, love, be loved and be true.
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- Victoria
- 23-12-23
So sad it’s over
I felt so sad to finish this book. I wanted to stay with Eva, Shane, and Audrey forever. Such a beautiful, nuanced, and captivating story and exploration of the traumatic youth of two black people who deserve the world, and the joy their futures hold. This was my first Tia Williams novel and I cannot wait to explore more.
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- Margarita Pencheva
- 21-12-23
What a truly adorable read!
I really liked that this book was the perfect mixture of modern romance capturing cheesiness and real life problems.
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