Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1075 reviews

rory18's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A really lovely book, and the plot is tied together well. My only complaint is that at times the emotional scenes between the central pair seem a little stilted, as if the author isn't very confident at writing a love story between two women, although it still feels authentic. A captivating book, and it says something that its appeal transcends genres so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Sexism, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Misogyny, Biphobia, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Outing, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Violence, Cancer, Death of parent, Racism, Terminal illness, Suicide, Death, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Police brutality

tinali's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

bluenarcissus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book. I finished it in under six hours. Evelyn Hugo frustrated me, worried me, surprised me, entranced me. Exactly as she would have wanted to do.

Spoiler

I knew right away that this book would end with the star’s assisted suicide, and I want to emphasize that this is not a weakness or a flaw in this book.  Being able to guess the resolution to a mystery simply means that one has correctly picked up on the author’s cues, that we both played our parts. It felt earned, like every good ending. Especially since, like Monique,

I kept finding myself distracted by wondering what the next step in Evelyn’s story was.

In addition to its compelling heroines and excellent storytellIng, I’m rating this 5 stars because I so appreciated the complex representation of

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queerness. Still women with a lot of privilege, mind, steeped in the self-centered glamour we might expect. But the abiding and contradictory love of two women and how they navigated it, and failed to… The wish and fear to give your all and show it to a world that might instantly reject you… I have felt that, in my own insignificant way. I have hidden from myself and the world be of the certainty I would be thrown away for who I am. It’s oddly impressive to feel so seen in a story so unlike my own.

This is a powerful, imperfect, complicated book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Cancer

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, and Biphobia

Minor: Abortion

sunflower7skull's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Outing, Domestic abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Grief, Biphobia, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Mental illness, and Alcohol

suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I thought that this was a really interesting book on sexuality and critiquing the idea of the Hollywood image. At the same time, it also is a very human story about someone's strive for success and what the costs are of that when confronted with the question of whether you can be who you are and still get what you want (and, alternatively, what happens to the self when you do choose to go after what you want). I think this book is definitely worth the read and is a nice book for people who want to explore more about these topics or just simply want something thought-provoking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Alcohol, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

ariirwin's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia

imskylow's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book actually had me really invested in the characters. Everyone and their flaws felt so plausible and that I cheered for them when good things happened and felt physically ill when things went wrong. So often, I felt like this was written about actual people and found myself checking the authors name on the book to be sure it wasn’t listed as Monique. Haha. And then I caught myself wishing I could watch all the movies Evelyn and her fellow actors and actresses starred in. I was very surprised about how much I enjoyed this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

Minor: Infidelity and Outing

cheye13's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The writing style was very readable and the characters in Evelyn's history were practically tangible. The expression of her grief and loneliness was well conveyed.

For a story about the golden age of Hollywood, and for a story spanning decades, the narrative felt very unrooted from the time to me. I couldn't tell which decade we were in until Evelyn made a pointed comment, and when the time is the story, I'd rather it be more immersive. I also found the interviewer's storyline very weak and paint-by-numbers. The end also felt like a cop-out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Homophobia, Biphobia, Cancer, Child death, and Infidelity

Minor: Classism, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Abortion, Infertility, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

ohheyivy's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Homophobia, Grief, Classism, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Outing, Cancer, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, and Death of parent

glitterdeww's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Homophobia, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, and Classism