Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
A witty, sexy book about two complex characters with a connection that tears them apart but makes them feel whole.
Eva is a bestselling erotic author and single mother to her teenage daughter, who is brilliant. Eva is intelligent, beautiful, and wildly talented. Shane is also a bestseller but of a completely different kind of book. Renowned for being a recluse, the mystery around him only makes him even more magnetic and adored by the literary world. After a chance meeting at a book event, we discover that Eva and Shane spent seven whirlwind days falling in love in June as teenagers and this one week shaped their entire lives. Twenty years later and still caught up in the tangled web of past traumas, deep passion and questions left unanswered, Shane and Eva find themselves once again spending several days in June rediscovering each other and themselves.
A mixed response from the book club. We don’t usually do romance novels like this, so it was a change of pace. Some people absolutely loved it while others were not so enthralled by the sweeping dramatic love story of two people. Williams is a fantastic writer and the book address a wide range of themes including racism, motherhood, classism, prison reform, classism, and much more. It’s an easy read that is whip smart, funny, and sensual enough for almost all readers to enjoy.
