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Seven Days in June
The instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon book club pick is "a heady combination of book love and between-the-sheets love." (Ruth Ware)
"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.
A Best Book of the Year: NPR • Kirkus • Marie Claire • PopSugar • New York Public Library • Bustle • Reader's Digest • Literary Hub
A Best Book of the Summer: Harper's Bazaar • Oprah Daily • Shondaland • The Los Angeles Times • CBS News • PureWow • Good Housekeeping • BuzzFeed • theSkimm
A Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post • USA Today • Vulture • Goodreads • BookPage • BuzzFeed • Happy Mag
"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.
A Best Book of the Year: NPR • Kirkus • Marie Claire • PopSugar • New York Public Library • Bustle • Reader's Digest • Literary Hub
A Best Book of the Summer: Harper's Bazaar • Oprah Daily • Shondaland • The Los Angeles Times • CBS News • PureWow • Good Housekeeping • BuzzFeed • theSkimm
A Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post • USA Today • Vulture • Goodreads • BookPage • BuzzFeed • Happy Mag
Editorial Reviews
"[Seven Days in June is] filled with important observations and tidbits about Black life, giving the reader something that goes a step beyond the basic rom-com format."
―USA Today
"While this is a sumptuous, fun, romantic story about two authors who reunite at a conference, it's also an ode to anyone who goes through life wishing they were more normal."
―Good Morning America
"Sultry."
―Marie Claire
"A read as sultry as the summer heat."
―Harper's Bazaar
"Steamy."
―Essence
"Gutting, arousing, and sparklingly witty… a love story with depth."―Vogue
"One of the most anticipated romance novels of the summer…Eva and Shane's story gets steamy, so be sure to read by the water so you can cool off."
―Oprah Daily
"If this cover doesn't raise your temperature a few degrees, the story will. Grab a fan before reading this one, because it really heats up."
―Good Housekeeping
"Readers will delight in the opportunity to become a part of Eva's world, in a novel that seamlessly weaves young love, true love, addiction, pain, and hope."
―Shondaland
"Very steamy…This one's going to be everywhere."
―The Skimm
"Seven Days in June is a beautiful ode to Black joy."
―PopSugar
"Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Tia Williams' 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 NYT bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things...
―USA Today
"While this is a sumptuous, fun, romantic story about two authors who reunite at a conference, it's also an ode to anyone who goes through life wishing they were more normal."
―Good Morning America
"Sultry."
―Marie Claire
"A read as sultry as the summer heat."
―Harper's Bazaar
"Steamy."
―Essence
"Gutting, arousing, and sparklingly witty… a love story with depth."―Vogue
"One of the most anticipated romance novels of the summer…Eva and Shane's story gets steamy, so be sure to read by the water so you can cool off."
―Oprah Daily
"If this cover doesn't raise your temperature a few degrees, the story will. Grab a fan before reading this one, because it really heats up."
―Good Housekeeping
"Readers will delight in the opportunity to become a part of Eva's world, in a novel that seamlessly weaves young love, true love, addiction, pain, and hope."
―Shondaland
"Very steamy…This one's going to be everywhere."
―The Skimm
"Seven Days in June is a beautiful ode to Black joy."
―PopSugar
"Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Tia Williams' 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 NYT bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things...
Readers Top Reviews
Junebug Newbie
I was constantly bombarded by instagram ads to get this book and I finally caved in and really thought it'd be the summer love story that I could live vicariously through on my holiday but was actually a little disappointed. Great storyline and I love how it's about separated lovers finally coming back together, but the characters, in their younger years actually went through a lot of trauma and the main character suffers from really bad migraines and pain which is hard to look past when she's trying to refind love. Plus I thought the author constantly plugged too many pop culture references in the book for my liking - I want to escape when reading a book, not be reminded of the world I currently live in. I give it three stars!
BreeJunebug Newbi
This book is marinated with emotion. People who feel deeply, a wide range of emotions across many generations. They are deep feelers. Such people are wired to experience the world first and foremost through their emotions and every one in this book does. Something that the world is convinced black women do not posses. There's both personal and generational growth, almost a leap in Audre from the other women. Shane was a pleasure to read. His awareness, his persistence and resolve, his fear, his acceptance. I was glad he finally realised that his salvation and healing was his tether, John-vee-ev. I loved this book because I understand these characters. I recognise the aloofness in Lizette, the sheer determination in Eve to escape her ancestral destiny that Genevieve would become but I also share the significance of Shane for her life. This book touched me in so many ways. I started off loving the beautifully written lives of these people and the rich culture they live but ended up looking through their lives a a lens for mine. This book evokes feelings and that is the best kind there is. If you have faced a fork in the road that MADE you stand still, review and change your life (which is almost anyone), you will love this. No matter how it turned out for you. My favourite piece in the book is the idea of renting out James Baldwin's former home. Imagine doing this for the likes of Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker.....I'd be made.
S. HarrisonLaura
How this got onto Reece Witherspoon's book list i do not know. Terribly written, terrible read. Total trash. The opening pars were a bad rip off of 50 Shades. There was a good reason why it was reduced to 99p on the Kindle. Even at that price i have been ripped off. I tried not to give up on it, due to RW's recommendation (i've loved her other recs) but this one is really bad and i had to stop reading to save my brain from going to mush.
#EmptyNestReaderS
Eva Mercy has just come face-to-face with her past: the good, the bad and the ugly. Presently living in Brooklyn, she's a single mom of a bright, artistic and outspoken tween and a successful writer of bestselling erotica. Eva has worked to put behind her the memories of her one true love and their one wild and dangerous week 20 years ago. The part that she can’t forget, or forgive, is that she has never heard from Shane again. A respected member of the Black literati Shane Hall is an award-winning author. He’s reclusive and asocial and he surprises everyone when he show’s up at a book event in New York. For 20 years Hall has carried around a broken heart and a message to deliver - the truth of what happened on that fateful day. Shockingly, the person he wants to see most, and the person he hasn’t seen in years, is at the very same event. Suddenly Shane doesn’t know what to say and Eva can’t decide if her heart is still breaking or beginning to heal, but everyone can feel the temperature rising in the room. For the next intense seven days Eva and Shane try to decide whether to reignite what they once had or say a final goodbye and move on with their lives. This engaging story is at once amusing, sexy, heartbreaking and enchanting. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Reading Chick
I have not read any other novels by Tia Williams, and picked this one up because of two reasons. The cover struck me as gorgeous, and the synopsis called out to me. I always love it when the subject revolves around writing, books, libraries, or authors. This story did have that connection for me, but when I started reading, it wasn’t the fact that Eva and Shane were authors that made me stick around, it was their connection. Their story of loss, love, and perseverance. It was the fact that family was something they strove to hang onto, even though they both didn’t have concrete ideas of what would make a good one. Eva is now a mother, her daughter is by far one of my favorite characters in this book, and Eva is raising her like she would’ve wanted to be raised. To be strong, educated, and without fear. To be a leader among her peers. All of the things that she didn’t have from her own mother, who was went from man to man looking for self-validation. Shane also didn’t have those strong building blocks, growing up in the foster system. A big guy, he easily got into trouble so he self-medicated until not being drunk or on pills was his norm. As an adult, he is now one of the most sought after authors because of his reclusiveness, but what drives him is to go back to schools like where he and Eva met, and connect with young kids and give them hope that they will overcome their own struggles. I loved this part of Shane. A now sober man who wants to give back. It’s an inspiring part of his character that despite his short-comings makes him easy to like. When Shane and Eva reconnect, Tia Williams does an amazing job of giving their feelings a sense of urgency and chemistry. I wanted the two of them to make each other their person and when it happened, I sighed with relief, eager for them to get that hea they deserved. Of course, things weren’t that simple for the two of them, but gosh this author knows how to write a scene and make me feel. I felt EVERYTHING… and loved it.
