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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

312 reviews

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

big_nerd's review

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

idontread's review

emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.25

to anyone who saw me crying alone in the airport lounge while reading this no u didn’t

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Biphobia, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Addiction, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Chronic illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body shaming, Classism, Child death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Biphobia, Cancer, Grief, Incest, Outing, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

katlouisee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

5.0

Where do I even begin with this book? An incredible story with nuanced bi representation that had me crying on the train in the end! So many twists and turns that were shocking but justified themselves in the narrative. Evelyn Hugo is such a complex character that I'm with Monique on her in the end (which also felt like it was done just right). Paced really well, emotional, and kinda gripping, I really enjoyed it (after I switched to the audiobook bc the print size is unfathomably small?). Excited to read more TJR!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Abortion, and Infidelity

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

taylor jenkins reid is without a doubt one of my favorite fiction authors. she has such a striking ability to seamlessly piece together a realistic world and intertwine that world and it’s characters into all of her novels. she also has a wonderful talent for pacing her novels.  i do believe malibu rising is her best (i have yet to read carrie soto though!), but this was a great read as well. i loved evelyn, as well as celia, harry, and john. but, i honestly did not care for monique. when looking at the bigger picture, i understand that monique was essential to the story, but i will not lie and say i was not bored when reading her chapters. i just could not find it in me to care much about her, even if that does sound harsh.

Spoiler

i was NOT expecting the insane plot twist with monique’s father. like OH MY GOD? with harry of all people! taylor you’re crazy for that one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Death, Biphobia, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

carolina2005's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Cancer, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Abortion, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Sexual content, and Suicide

michelamar's review

emotional hopeful 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

3.75

It took me months to get through the first half of this book simply because I kept if getting so busy I forgot to read it and then I flew through the second half in 3 hours, leaving me here, now, at 1:32 am writing this review. This book was a lot. I enjoyed it and got entirely lost in it, but I think it didn’t know quite what it was. I think I found the foreshadowing a bit too heavy handed with a bit too little payoff. I don’t think the end is quite as shocking or as impactful as it wants to be unfortunately. More than anything, though, this book reminded me of the power of queer family (and not just family that has a gay couple, but true, queer family that pushes against nuclearity and all the promise of a white picket fence and 2.5 kids). Queer family to me was the hero of this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Biphobia, Cancer, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcoholism, Sexism, Death, and Infidelity

rainerasnic's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

Moderate: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Cancer, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Infidelity, Death of parent, Blood, Car accident, Addiction, Drug use, Grief, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Alcohol, Death, and Physical abuse

theroadjones's review

emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Homophobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Cancer

Minor: Drug use

vireoeo's review

emotional inspiring 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

4.0

I didn't think I was going to like this at first - not really any fault of the writing, but it's very different from my usual genres and I found it a bit too straightforward and (at times) tell-not-show-y. But as soon as it switched to Evelyn's POV I was enraptured. I cried a whole bunch of times, fell in love with most of the characters, and I will be telling everyone I know to read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Outing, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Biphobia, Cancer, and Child abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Suicide, Abortion, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder, Incest, Drug use, and Miscarriage