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Seven Days in June
by Tia Williams
OK so Eva and Shane met when they were in 12th grade on Eva’s first day of school and they’ve known each other for a full seven days.
First of all, I can see exactly why a lot of people love this book. It’s so good. I love the flashbacks of them describing how they met, what they meant to each other and how after 15 years apart, they can still recall their feelings for each other.
So they are both writers and while they haven’t spoken in 15 years, they constantly write to each other or about each other in their books, which is so cute to me. When they met again, I couldn’t stop smiling like I was smiling so bad Eva is shog. She’s trying to figure out what he’s doing there and it’s like every time she says something she always rambles and blushes every time he complements her or says, even one word. In the book, he called it a verbal blush when she would ramble and that was just so accurate like I love that.
The thing I love about Shane is that when he was a teenager even though he was drinking a lot and doing different types of drugs, he still cared heavily for the other kids that were in the foster home that he was in. He wanted them to be better than he was I guess also, he would sneak some things and night I guess so they can still even just a bit of happiness. And I also love that when he got clean, he would teach at different schools and go to the pourers areas of the neighborhood and mentor little black children who he thought needed it. And he also admitted in the book that he doesn’t know if he could keep doing it because he starts to love these kids and care too much. I also love the way that he talks with them. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything he tells them exactly what he thinks, and how they can better themselves.
I really like reading books where I can relate. If not personally then through someone else. I guess with Eva‘s story I don’t relate to everything she went through, but I do relate with how later in life, she feels stuck where she is and everything that she gets she just accepts I guess. Shes content where she is, sometimes I feel like that where I have no desire to move up reach out or network, I just like where I am.
With Shane is easy to see the similarities with him and other black boys who fall victim to the streets and drugs and gangs because it happens every day and everywhere. So it was great reading how he didn’t want his students to fall victim to the police brutality and the drug game and I think that’s why he was trying so hard with Ty telling him not to meet his sister’s boyfriend. He thought it was a bad idea, but didn’t listen and he ended up getting robbed and shot and eventually he died. When that happened, you could feel Shanes guilt, because he was with Eva, finally got her back and felt like he was on top of the world and ignoring everything else. So I think somewhere in him, he felt like it was his fault that if he would’ve answered the phone, then Ty would still be alive. It may be so but things don’t go the way we planned to.
The end really shocked me because I really thought that they were going to end up together like I was so happy for them. I love the way that Shane loved Eva to his very core, and she felt the same like I was rooting for them all the way through so it was a shock when he was the one to say he doesn’t want to be in a relationship because he doesn’t want to hurt her again and make promises that he couldn’t keep. But I understand what he was going through. I think with him not wanted to continue the relationship because he wasn’t emotionally stable enough to do so.
I’m also happy that in the epilogue they eventually did end up continuing the relationship because I felt that they had so much chemistry and so much in common, And now that they are grown and not teenagers anymore, they finally know what they want or not finally, but just cemented in their minds and beings that they need each other, it’s just really amazing to see/read black love
Anyway, I hope this males sense. I really love this book 5/5stars. It shot up to my top five when I was halfway through the book!
First of all, I can see exactly why a lot of people love this book. It’s so good. I love the flashbacks of them describing how they met, what they meant to each other and how after 15 years apart, they can still recall their feelings for each other.
So they are both writers and while they haven’t spoken in 15 years, they constantly write to each other or about each other in their books, which is so cute to me. When they met again, I couldn’t stop smiling like I was smiling so bad Eva is shog. She’s trying to figure out what he’s doing there and it’s like every time she says something she always rambles and blushes every time he complements her or says, even one word. In the book, he called it a verbal blush when she would ramble and that was just so accurate like I love that.
The thing I love about Shane is that when he was a teenager even though he was drinking a lot and doing different types of drugs, he still cared heavily for the other kids that were in the foster home that he was in. He wanted them to be better than he was I guess also, he would sneak some things and night I guess so they can still even just a bit of happiness. And I also love that when he got clean, he would teach at different schools and go to the pourers areas of the neighborhood and mentor little black children who he thought needed it. And he also admitted in the book that he doesn’t know if he could keep doing it because he starts to love these kids and care too much. I also love the way that he talks with them. He doesn’t sugarcoat anything he tells them exactly what he thinks, and how they can better themselves.
I really like reading books where I can relate. If not personally then through someone else. I guess with Eva‘s story I don’t relate to everything she went through, but I do relate with how later in life, she feels stuck where she is and everything that she gets she just accepts I guess. Shes content where she is, sometimes I feel like that where I have no desire to move up reach out or network, I just like where I am.
With Shane is easy to see the similarities with him and other black boys who fall victim to the streets and drugs and gangs because it happens every day and everywhere. So it was great reading how he didn’t want his students to fall victim to the police brutality and the drug game and I think that’s why he was trying so hard with Ty telling him not to meet his sister’s boyfriend. He thought it was a bad idea, but didn’t listen and he ended up getting robbed and shot and eventually he died. When that happened, you could feel Shanes guilt, because he was with Eva, finally got her back and felt like he was on top of the world and ignoring everything else. So I think somewhere in him, he felt like it was his fault that if he would’ve answered the phone, then Ty would still be alive. It may be so but things don’t go the way we planned to.
The end really shocked me because I really thought that they were going to end up together like I was so happy for them. I love the way that Shane loved Eva to his very core, and she felt the same like I was rooting for them all the way through so it was a shock when he was the one to say he doesn’t want to be in a relationship because he doesn’t want to hurt her again and make promises that he couldn’t keep. But I understand what he was going through. I think with him not wanted to continue the relationship because he wasn’t emotionally stable enough to do so.
I’m also happy that in the epilogue they eventually did end up continuing the relationship because I felt that they had so much chemistry and so much in common, And now that they are grown and not teenagers anymore, they finally know what they want or not finally, but just cemented in their minds and beings that they need each other, it’s just really amazing to see/read black love
Anyway, I hope this males sense. I really love this book 5/5stars. It shot up to my top five when I was halfway through the book!