Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

771 reviews

mesta's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

loved this, i cant describe how good it was 
kudos

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Death, Cancer, Misogyny, and Infidelity

Moderate: Car accident, Suicide, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Abortion

maddydiz's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

Very easy to finish book. Captures the addictive qualities of viewing celebrities’ lives. Characters are relatable without feeling like the author is trying to make them relatable. Fun to read and sneakily profound. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Biphobia

Moderate: Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Death, Suicide, Cancer, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Vomit, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

tinyflame4's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Abortion, Cancer, Car accident, and Death

sop_hee's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious 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

3.75

Really enjoyed although Monique's pov is incredibly immature and under developed compared to Evelyn's, especially considering she is supposed to be some skilled journalist in her 30s. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Infidelity

Death mentioned in content warning because it's a story of a woman's life told when she was in her 80s or around that. Naturally being that age she has had friends die and will also soon die herself, hence the mention, although there are a few deaths that are more unexpected than others.

clare_dv's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Death, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Cancer

imskylow's review against another edition

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

bookedfortheweekend25's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Car accident

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Cancer, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Ableism, Misogyny, Suicide, and Death of parent

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

sophie_hans's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Abortion