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  • By: Tia Williams
  • Narrated by: Mela Lee
  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (280 ratings)

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Seven Days in June

By: Tia Williams
Narrated by: Mela Lee
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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.

©2021 Tia Williams (P)2021 Hachette Audio
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: Romance

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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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

Thank you

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  • 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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Complicated love story with great characters

I really enjoyed reading this. It gave me complicated, layered characters with a gorgeous love story. I did find the dialogue a bit on the nose and too obvious at times. in general, Williams tackles hard subjects so well and writes chemistry so well that you feel it viscerally

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Loved it… wished for more!

Completely swept me up in the narrative, couldn’t turn it off! I didn’t know I could finish an audiobook this fast.
Loved the narration, thought it fitted the book perfectly. The writing is so sexy and the story soo good. Always enjoy a meddling tween too!

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I need more...

Absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end just like "The Perfect Find" plus I loved how they introduced some of the characters from perfect find into this one. I'm sure we could get a continuing story on Eva and Shane ☺️

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couldn't listen to this story fast enough!!!

absolutely loved the story start to finish. such a beautiful story, gonna have to get the paperback version for my library 😍

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Nice read

Enjoyed the storyline, although at points felt predictable. The flashbacks and forwards were interesting as well. Would recommend. Solid 3/5

If you like romance with people low-key trauma bonded them this book is for you 👽

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Beautifully Written

I adore this story, so well written. I didn't want it to end. I am so glad that after all they went through they found themselves and each other.

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terrible

-Characters lacked depth
-Their relationship lacked depth
Their trauma has barely affected them as apparently to the point they are both perfect human beings. Totally selfless.
She had no role model for a mother, suffers from chronic pain, went through a divorce and still manages to be a perfect mother.
As teenagers, they meet, "fall in love" while out of it constantly drugs and alcohol. They have barely experienced each other.
The story sexualises trauma. Their trauma is soothed by their relationship though their love is medicine that can help them resolve all their problems. That's not how healing works.
this book made me almost vomit in my mouth a few times with the pure cringe levels. If it wasn't for book club I would have got past the first chapter.

p.s the book Eva sets out to write at the end sounds so much better than this crap. why didn't the author write that story?

Similar relationship style to Bella and Edward in Twilight....a teen novel....how embarrassing for the author

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try hard

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  • 26-05-23

Didn’t want it to end!!

It was such a thrill listening to this story! It was so hard to break away from it cause I always wanted to know what was going to happen next.

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  • 04-03-23

Well written and well performed.

Finding a work that balances the story and the performances is a moment, Seven Days in June had so many moments wrapped up in one perfectly executed book. I did not want the story to end. I could listen to Mela Lee read a menu because she would bring the entrees to life. I LOVED this book and the way the themes, sometimes heavy, were handled. It is an instant favorite for me and I am now a Mela Lee and Tia Williams stan,