Synopsis
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.
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Review
Seven Days in June is a book lover’s book, which is just one reason I enjoyed it so much.
Yes, this story is so much more than just a story of two authors. At times it is laugh-out-loud funny and at other times hauntingly tragic. Eva was fantastic, quite honestly, one of the most real characters I’ve read in fiction. As a reader, I particularly enjoyed her struggle with Cursed, the series that both launched her career and is holding it back. I loved how it points out that because she writes books with erotic scenes, she is not taken seriously as an author. Add being black and writing a book with black characters, and it’s even worse for her. The juxtaposition between what Eva’s life as an author is like versus Shane’s is interesting and, I hope, eye-opening.
Seven Days in June touches on so many different topics, race, addiction, motherhood, socioeconomic situations, and social media. But this book does it in a subtle way, making it all part of a beautiful story. I don’t want to give anything of the plot away because I went in blind, and I am glad I did, but the story sucks you in, and I loved how it was written.
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