Seven Days in June

Synopsis:

“Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.

When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry—or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since.

Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...”

My thoughts:

I was drawn in from the very first page, I really liked the writing style, it often had a tongue in cheek undertone which had me laughing out loud quite a lot! This is a funny, raw and emotional story of love and loss, persevering and surviving.

I was routing for Eva and Shane the whole way through. The narrative went back to their childhood and we got to see how they spent those 7 days together. Both characters had turbulent childhoods that they are still trying to overcome as adults. This is one of the reasons being together may not work out for them . It is a will they or won’t they contemporary romance that Is in no way sugar coated or fluffy: I found it addictive with unforgettable characters. I highly recommend getting a copy and diving straight in!!