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Review: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Blurb from Goodreads : Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again... From the author of The Perfect Find, this is a witty, romantic, and sexy-as-hell new novel of two writers and their second chance at love. 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 sec...

2016 End of Year Book Survey (+ Giveaway!)

2016 End of Year Book Survey: (hosted by Jamie @ The Perpetual Pageturner ) Number of books I read:  232. Number of re-reads:  29. Genre I read the most from: Contemporary adult. Best Book I read in 2016?  See my lists  HERE  (YA) and HERE  (Adult)  and   HERE  (Debuts) tl; dr:   Dear Fang, With Love The Raven King Every Exquisite Thing   The Underground Railroad Book you were excited and thought you were gonna love more but didn’t? Eligible :(  I love CS and Jane Austen but this was not a good fit Most surprising (in a good or bad way) book you read in 2016? Undecided and The Hating Game - I was leery to read both and they ended up to be some of my favorites of the year! Book you pushed people to read? Undecided   and   Every Exquisite Thing Best series you started in 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016? Best series I started this year: IQ ...

Top Ten Adult Books I Read in 2016 (+ Giveaway!)

1.   Dear Fang, With Love  by Rufi Thorpe Beautiful. Heart-wrenching. True.  My review HERE .  2.  The Underground Railroad   by Colson Whitehead Every inch of hype is absolutely real. I couldn't put this down or stop highlighting every astonishing word. 3.   I Almost Forgot About You  by Terry McMillan The one I bought for all my friends. I want Georgia Young to be my best friend. My review HERE . 4.   Undecided   by Julianna Keyes The kind of NA that you long to find and yet you hardly ever do!  My review HERE . 5.  Dancing with the Tiger  by Lili Wright I still can't believe this is a debut. So good and my favorite cover of the year. My review HERE . 6.   The Boy Is Back   by Meg Cabot I had a giant smile on my face the entire time I read this one AND my top book boyfriend of the year!  My review...

Monthly Recap: June 2016

Number of Books Read I read ( not  including my record FIVE DNFs which took up time so I am pretty pleased with my total) 19 books in June -- The Scorpio Races was a re-read, actually my first time listening to it on audio, which was amazing so I'm not counting that as my highest or favorite read of the month even though you know it is 5+++++++++ STARS!!   edit Highest rating Another 4.5 Star read!! Lowest rating Five (5) DNFs!  Crazy town! Best read of the month Book which surprised me the most I thought I would love this one :( Fictional crush of the month Th...