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A review by riareadsromance
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
4.0
Really not sure where to begin with this book but I guess I’ll start with the end because I’ve literally just finished it.
My immediate reaction is that a 13 year old boy being shot and killed being the reason for the third act break up and then it being completely glossed over and quite quickly resolved felt really distasteful to me?
I was enjoying this book, I was somewhat confused by the marketing around it because it seemed to have leaked into the ‘mainstream’ fiction genre more than usual so I was expecting a lot more angst and lofty plot points I guess so when I started reading it and it generally felt like any normal romance novel I’ve read I was confused but happy. I enjoyed the format of it being divided into days and the writing is good but I do just feel like this book didn’t know what it was.
It is definitely by and large a romance but with the backstories of both MCs it felt like it was trying to be deeper or edgier or something but everything was spoken about so matter of fact my rather than feeling emotionally charged.
Like Shane’s ‘issues’ were actually all off page/in the past so when we meet him in the present day, okay he’s a recovering alcoholic but other than that he seems largely very chill? He’s not self destructive any more apart from a compulsion to run fast and hard, he doesn’t have a temper, he’s not mad at the world or at Eva, he’s just kind of a nomad who’s always been longing for her? And suddenly decides to find her again? I would have liked to know more about what made him get sober because that seems like it would have an emotional pinpoint but it’s never really mentioned? TBC
My immediate reaction is that a 13 year old boy being shot and killed being the reason for the third act break up and then it being completely glossed over and quite quickly resolved felt really distasteful to me?
I was enjoying this book, I was somewhat confused by the marketing around it because it seemed to have leaked into the ‘mainstream’ fiction genre more than usual so I was expecting a lot more angst and lofty plot points I guess so when I started reading it and it generally felt like any normal romance novel I’ve read I was confused but happy. I enjoyed the format of it being divided into days and the writing is good but I do just feel like this book didn’t know what it was.
It is definitely by and large a romance but with the backstories of both MCs it felt like it was trying to be deeper or edgier or something but everything was spoken about so matter of fact my rather than feeling emotionally charged.
Like Shane’s ‘issues’ were actually all off page/in the past so when we meet him in the present day, okay he’s a recovering alcoholic but other than that he seems largely very chill? He’s not self destructive any more apart from a compulsion to run fast and hard, he doesn’t have a temper, he’s not mad at the world or at Eva, he’s just kind of a nomad who’s always been longing for her? And suddenly decides to find her again? I would have liked to know more about what made him get sober because that seems like it would have an emotional pinpoint but it’s never really mentioned? TBC