Seven Days in June: Tia Williams

this has to be my new favorite love story! So clever and witty but also extremely heart-wrenching!

heartwarming and funny but equally heartbreaking

This is one of my favorite books now like I think it cured my reading slump I've been in for a while. This book really does talk you on a rollercoaster of emotions. I've at places in this book that wasn't even necessary to cry but I did. The characters were just so complex and truly fighting to get better and I think it was just done so well. Like it was like they were actual people going through this trauma in the real world. The characters go through so much from a young age until their adulthood and just try to get better for not only themselves but the people around them. The side characters also had me very invested there were times where I was like do we really need to know what there thinking but then you realize that it really does play an important role. The fact the characters were just black people in America also was amazing. Like they talk about so many things and how wrong and bad black people are treated in this world but it doesn't overwhelm you with that theme. That we as black people acknowledge that but at the end of the day we still are people and we still have our lives to get through. The author did an amazing job putting the real-life struggles and successes black people face. My favorite character would have to be our main character Genevieve out the main female lead. I think she stood out to me the most because she was just a girl who is trying to overcome her past while also creating a new life for her daughter. The emotions throughout this whole book were just raw and amazing. I highly recommend this book to anyone I can because it's just an amazing read. Also, there is a lot of mention of things like suicide + mental health trauma and a lot of other things that can be trigging to people I'm just blanking out on the other things that happened that could be triggering I'm sorry.

Heartbreaking and healing at the same time

This book is everything I didn't know I needed. Eva and Shane are both very complex characters with so much emotional baggage, but the longing they feel for each other is so big and it breaks my heart. Living 15 years without eachother and still feeling such an emotional connection must be heartbreaking. I love how the book is written. It's so personal and detailed in every way. Still I kinda wish Tia Williams would've given the past a bit more room, in that way we could've get to know those two on an even deeper level. All in all a fantastic book!

Ich hab einfach das halbe Buch markiert. Romance ist eigentlich nicht meins, und würde ich nicht so sehr relaten, wären es auch keine 4.5 Sterne. Aber ich wusste, dass ich mein Herz auf literarischer Ebene gebrochen kriegen wollte, und das hat das Buch super geschafft.

4,5 ⭐️. Where do I begin with this one? It was hella INTENSE and I loved it. It dealt with heavy themes but did it so well. It was laugh-out-loud funny at times, which felt necessary for me personally. I truly felt their connection and was fond of pretty much all the characters. They were all loveable in their own ways. Instant fave.

Zunächst mal: Audre for president! Ich wusste vorher, worauf ich mich einlasse, aber ich wusste nicht, worauf ich mir wirklich einlasse. Mir war klar, dass der Roman mit schwierigen Themen umgeht. Mir war nicht klar, wie schwer es manchmal wird. Bei Romanen die den Fokus so stark auf eine Liebesgeschichte legen bin ich nie Fan von schwierigen Verhältnissen, aber Seven Days in June konnte ich einfach nicht weglegen. Ich war wie im Sog! Ich bin immer noch erstaunt darüber, wie etwas so wehtun kann und im nächsten Moment einfach wunderschön ist. Mein Highlight war eindeutig die Beziehung zwischen Eva und ihrer Tochter Audre, ich kann nicht genug von ihnen bekommen! Ich mochte die Sprache sehr gerne, den Witz und die Intensität zwischen Shane und Eva war meisterhaft dargestellt. Die Aussage im letzten Kapitel fand ich richtig stark, deshalb war ich vom Epilog dann ein bisschen enttäuscht und hätte mir gewünscht, dass die Zeitsprünge größer sind. Große Empfehlung, alle müssen es lesen!

This book is so realistic I love it.The only thing that put me off is how they proceeded to almost have sex in a public space but otherwise I like it

I was semi-convinced by this. This was quite predictable and a lot of surprises and excitement was dampened by the narrative perspective which seemed a little bit random sometimes. I also felt like the dialogues were a little over-the-top and the humor didn’t really suited me. I also would have liked a little more depth and in the characters and plot. There were essentially two main characters who were quite flat. But I would definitely give the author another try I think just this book wasn’t for me.

It was quite refreshing reading about two people in their thirties having a complicated love story The only thing that I actually did not like were the spontaneous PoV switches in chapters and how many PoVs there were