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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

281 reviews

jessicadr's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense fast-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

This is my first 5 star read of the year. The book moved very quickly from the beginning. Although there were a couple of times I tried to figure out while I was still reading, the twists at the end were so worth it. The feelings I have for this book are very controversial. This is definitely a book I’ll be thinking about for awhile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Car accident, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, and Alcoholism

tdhuck's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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: Cancer, Blood, Alcohol, Abortion, Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Racism, Outing, Pregnancy, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, Death, and Classism

jebarlo09'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: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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: Biphobia, Blood, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Cancer, Miscarriage, Outing, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, and Lesbophobia

goodolnicole's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Grief, Homophobia, Suicide, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, and Miscarriage

taryn_g's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Car accident, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, Medical content, Child death, and Pregnancy

gracieec's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Drug use, Misogyny, Cancer, Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Addiction, Biphobia, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Abortion, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Racism, and Blood

nindie's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-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

i'm a weeping mess at 3am finishing this, help.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Biphobia, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

big_nerd's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Cancer, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Abortion, Alcohol, Biphobia, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide

annalpurcell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

I don’t know where else to include this, but normally I LOATHE first-person narration, and I actually didn’t mind it in this book. It may have been because the conceit of this novel is a woman narrating  her life experiences so first-person makes logical sense, but if you similarly loathe first-person narration, this instance is actually ok. 

Things I Enjoyed
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Diversity: this book featured characters from a variety of different backgrounds (ex. our two protagonists are both women of color) and their background actually factors in to who they are as people and how they live their lives rather than feeling like tokenism

Queer Female Love: it is not often you get to see love between two women get done much less well, and I think this book does a decent job at being a realistic and intriguing queer love story. 

Handling of Biphobia: I thought Jenkins Reid handled biphobia in a tactful way and I especially liked that it came from a fellow queer person as, at least in my experience, that is often the case 

What Could’ve Been Better
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Not Enough Queer Female Love: What keeps this book from being 5 stars for me is that I wish we could’ve seen more of Evelyn and Celia’s relationship. I suppose I can’t be too disappointed as this book is called the seven HUSBANDS of Evelyn Hugo and while it may have all been in the pursuit of one woman the emphasis is still on the husbands.  

Spoiler

Tell Me More Tell Me More: this book was not about Harry or James or even really about Monique, but I do wish we could’ve learned more about Harry and James’s relationship and the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide