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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

40 reviews

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

dark emotional

5.0

I do not have words for how fucking good this book is. It felt like I was being repeatedly stabbed in the chest and I never wanted it to end. It’s a beautiful (and at times, extremely painful, confronting and traumatic) love story between Eva and Shane that also explores some really dark and horrific aspects of the US (systemic racism specifically with regards the prison industrial complex and education system; failure of the foster care system; addiction; youth violence). But it is also so incredibly hopeful. It’s a story about two broken teenagers who spent seven days in June falling in love and wrote to each other across the years until they find each other again. It is so real and raw and gritty and nuanced and I loved this so much. 

OH! And it has migraine rep!! I’ve never read a book that has my chronic illness represented before! Amazing! 

Content warnings: chronic pain (migraines), sex work, attempted child sexual assault, implied pedophilia, self-harm, addiction, drug and alcohol abuse, overdose, sex, violence, injury detail, discussion of systemic racism particularly with regards to the prison industrial complex and education system, gun violence, child death, child neglect

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

looseleafellie's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Over a decade after a whirlwind teenage romance, Eva Mercy and Shane Hall are both bestselling authors. Despite their attempts to forget each other, they’ve been writing each other into their books for years. So when fate reunites them at a book conference, Shane and Eva must discover whether their love can still work, or whether they’ll have to leave each other forever.

This book was a charming, funny, and poignant delight! Eva and Shane are wonderfully witty protagonists who click amazingly well. I also loved Eva’s precocious daughter, Audre, and her clever observations.

The point of view mostly sticks to Eva and Shane, but there are a few scenes with other characters’ perspectives sprinkled in. I tend to find this a bit jarring, but here I didn’t mind so much because the side characters are so interesting.

Aside from being a cute romance, Seven Days in June weaves topics like chronic illness, mental health, family trauma, racism in publishing, and addiction into the story in a way that feels natural and nuanced. Despite the challenges they’ve faced, Eva and Shane find solace in each other and their loved ones, and it’s a wonderful exploration of how community and being true to yourself helps you flourish.

The epilogue felt a bit drawn-out to me, but I don’t know how else it could have been arranged without cutting out some necessary character development for Eva. In any case, by the time the story wrapped up, I was left feeling ridiculously happy for the characters!

Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a brilliant joyful romance that doesn’t shy away from heavy topics.

Spice level: Graphic

CWs: Drug abuse/overdose, alcoholism, child abuse/neglect, suicide attempt, chronic illness, self harm, implied pedophilia, racism, depression, violence, gun death of a child, sexual assault mention, grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Racism, Self harm, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

kayladaila's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Gaslighting

delz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Eva and Shane have a long and complicated history, but after a failed marriage, one daughter and a successful writing career is Eva ready to forgive the boy now a man who broke her heart? Eva and Shane knew each other, once in high school, but that was  fifteen years ago. They had both come from hardship, which they recognized in each other. Eva, suffering from debilitating headaches and dealing with an irresponsible mother and Shane having no one at all, they formed a short lived codependency with each other. It was drug infused, sex and it only lasted seven days. Fast forward 15 years into the present, Eva is still battling headaches, Shane is still battling his demons, but as adults can they find their ways back to each other and make it work?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Outing

Minor: Pedophilia

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The writing in this second chance romance is exquisite. I love reading about writers, and this romance is about two writers, so that was perfect. This was a 5 star prediction and I'm so happy that it turned out to be exactly what I wanted. THE CHEMISTRY between these two leads....it was everything. TO ADD ONTO THAT: i loved the representation in here for invisible disabilities / chronic pain. the main character is a migraine sufferer and it impacts her day to day so much and i found that extremely relatable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Slavery, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

emej_'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Self harm

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death and Pedophilia

writingcaia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is so much more than just a romance, it’s about family, trauma, damage, healing, about crippling disability, about conquering your fears and being your true self.
With such amazing characters as I’ve rarely read this tale takes you on a ride from the saddest most heartbreaking of youth stories where love would be impossible to survive to a cute mother and daughter relationship, finding the love that got away and how to go from there.
In the midst of it all there’s also space to address self-harm, abandonment, drug abuse, racism, colorism, and delve deep into living with a disability, family trauma and abandonment, but also family strength and unity, with a colourful splash of fashion, glamour, books and of course some steamy romance.
There’re a lot of fun parts too, mostly with the daughter (a deliciously witty character) and a lot of heart wrenching ones, and for the life of me I couldn’t put it down a second, I just had to know if the two traumatised writers could find happiness with each other after everything, pain, loss and time.
An epic romance that brought me to tears and laughs, and definitely now one of my favourite adult romances ever! Will definitely check more of this author and see if Colleen Hoover as found her match in my romance preferences as she did with this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Pedophilia

Child neglect

annreadsabook's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia

shaipanda's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

As much as I wish it was this was definitely not a 5 star read for me personally 
This book was deeply fucked up and the characters were super flawed but those weren’t even the reason why it wasn’t 5 ⭐️- I mean I fully was not prepared for all of that but that wasn’t even the issue really I don’t think. My issue mainly was because of all of that despite how much I loved the characters and the incredible character work that Tia Williams did, the main couple just seemed toxic and like they probably shouldn’t be together at least not till they got their shit together. That’s all even more true with Eva having a daughter and her being at least somewhat aware of their relationship. However, I do think this book is really really important in a lot of ways and was really really well done which is why I rated it as (relatively) highly as I did. 
Not even when I finished it but as I got towards the end I really could not decide how I feel about this book. I think 4.25 is a pretty good descriptor but I still don’t fully know cause this book gave me such mixed feelings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

There are many instances of racial slurs, specifically the n word being used in this book but just wanted to give the context of that word only being used by Black people in this book. I feel kinda weird putting it as a content warning because of that context since I don’t think that’s what they mean but just in case, I figured I’d include it cause it is in there

ashleycmms's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Rape, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death