It’s hinted that he “broke a promise” which, of course, takes an eternity to ever get around to disclosing and winds up being a trope contained in approximately 112% of all romance novels that could have been wrapped up had the two main characters taken Khalid’s sage advice of . When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. With the help of some patient and efficient moderators, Riley Amos Westbrook, BB Wynter, Dwayne Fry, J.

Eva has the chance to adapt her vampire-romance series into a film but gets the soul-crushing advice that the characters should be made white, because it would be more marketable. It’s so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y’all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard. It took me some time to finish this book but I'm currently in quite a serious reading slump so finishing (and enjoying) anything feels like an achievement.

I'm not sure I would have been emotionally mature enough to read/appreciate this in my early twenties? Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.

This was the first time I read a novel where the MC deals with the same disability and mental health challenges that I have: utterly horrific migraines and depression. It was handled with a lot of care, but I didn't feel like it was conducive to a stable, healthy relationship between the main characters. At a Brooklyn literary panel, she has a surprising public reunion with Shane Hall, the reclusive, award-winning author of four books of literary fiction. 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.

Her dealing with her invisible disability and the pain while working and being perfect single mum really showed how strong her character was.

Tia is currently an editorial director at Estee Lauder Companies and lives with her daughter and her husband in Brooklyn. During these seven days in June, they revealed their pain and coping mechanisms to each other: For Shane, it was drugs and alcohol; for Eva, it was self-harm.

Ever read a book that delves into so much that you're kind of at a loss of how to review it because you want to talk about e v e r y t h i n g, so you know you're going to forget most of it? I think that one of the hardest things to do is to communicate an authentic love story without it coming across as cheesy, unconvincing, formulaic, or, even worse, boring. I know this is will be an unpopular opinion, but honestly I didn’t find myself anxiously waiting to see what would happen…. I did not feel that their adult chapters quite reached that level, but I guess maybe it was because they had both grown up and grown wary as people and had to let down their respective guards. Are you curious about the books and authors Stephen King has enjoyed reading in the last 40 years or so?