Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

937 reviews

hobbit_at_heart's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Car accident, Grief, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Blood, Pregnancy, Suicide, Abortion, and Miscarriage

caprireads215's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Rape

caitlyn_drago_1226's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

truly a masterpiece

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Homophobia, Grief, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Chronic illness, Child death, Cancer, Biphobia, Blood, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide

hollowbound's review against another edition

emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I was originally going to give this two stars, but I decided it deserved one more for the pure fact that I did get emotionally invested enough to tear up a few times. Overall, however, I really just did not jive with TJR's writing style. It was too expository even during moments that we were zoomed in to either Evelyn or Monique's perspective. Speaking of perspectives, I found the voices between Evelyn and Monique far too similar to the point I'd sometimes miss when we'd switch to another. I think I'm more disappointed than anything. That, of course, is my own fault for giving in to the hype around this book before reading. If you like contemporary fiction, this is definitely worth a look, but I wouldn't say it's anything overly special in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexism, Grief, Death, Infidelity, Cancer, and Suicide

Minor: Child death

saturnpersonified's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

katipheria's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Grief, Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Outing

te_ss_i's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Addiction, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Violence

jeanettesreadingcorner's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense slow-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

3.5

• Evelyn Hugo’s life story is certainly entertaining and eventful. However, I don’t love it enough to keep my copy. I had high expectations because of how popular it is. I only started enjoying it towards end. 
• I didn’t like Evelyn that much for most of the book. I don’t agree with how she treated Celia early on. I guess I don’t like how fake everybody is to each other but that’s Hollywood. I actually started to like Evelyn more after she retired from acting. When Evelyn started living as her true self. I enjoyed Celia St. James and Harry Cameron’s characters more. Evelyn, Celia, Harry, and John (and eventually Connor) being a family together was my favorite part of the book. 
• I didn’t care about Monique Grant’s character at all throughout the book. The plot twist at the end was what made her interesting to me. I was mostly reading this to know who Evelyn Hugo is. 
• The Old Hollywood glamour and timeline was fun and well-written. I especially loved the outfits and historical references. I also enjoyed seeing the actual media articles on Evelyn and getting to read about her in that perspective. 
• The plot twist towards the end! I kind of suspected it or made guesses about it early on. I wasn’t exactly correct but I had an idea. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Cancer, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Homophobia, and Biphobia

Moderate: Outing, Suicide, Vomit, Blood, and Misogyny

leonormsousa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Car accident, and Sexual violence

kflaherty258's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Car accident, Death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Homophobia