A review by sbaldwin16
Seven Days in June, by Tia Williams

3.75

Going into this I didn't think I would like it but I found myself so caught up in it, wanting to see what happens next and if Eva and Shane would be able to make it work the second time around. The teenage versions of themselves seem rather self-destructive so it's nice to see that they both were able to get to a steady-ish state as adults, by the time they meet again. The mother-daughter relationships are complex but mostly believable (I'm surprised that Eva maintains a relationship with her mother, after what we see when Eva's a teenager, but I really like Eva's relationship with her own daughter, Audre). I do wish we could have gotten more insight into the books that both Eva and Shane have been writing in the time since they last saw each other -- like fake little blurbs from their books at the beginning of each chapter would have been nice.
Spoiler Also, that part at the end of Chapter 7 where Eva says "Stop writing about me" and Shane replies "You first"? Swoon. The fact that their books are not just written to each other but also about each other helped sell the relationship for me and that is the moment that I really got hooked into the story.
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