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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

71 reviews

marmarmoo123's review

emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Death, Cancer, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, Chronic illness, Outing, Alcoholism, and Addiction

tree_branch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Injury/injury detail, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Misogyny, Outing, Eating disorder, Abortion, Racism, Suicide, Biphobia, Rape, Sexism, Cancer, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Homophobia, and Pregnancy

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

An utter, earth-shattering masterpiece. “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is both a stripped-down version of the bitter reality of Hollywood through the decades, and a glamorous tribute to unequivocal love and loss.

It’s quite shocking that it took me so long to read this, though I suspect a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had such high hopes and had heard so much unadulterated praise. Ever the pessimist, I was afraid it would disappoint me.

I’m VERY GLAD to report, that it did not disappoint me at all, and actually was much more than I hoped for. An incredible epic of a story-within-a-story, a biographical account of a fictional starlet with many marriages and headlines, but only one true love kept secret for most of her life.

I love TJR’s writing, her layered and complicated story building eclipsed only by the bold and complex characters she creates. Evelyn isn’t supposed to be someone you just love, but she is someone you absolutely root for, despite all her flaws. Because there’s Celia, the truth behind it all. (And Harry, whom I adored so much.) 

One of the best novels I’ve ever read that accurately tackles the duality of humanity and fame, with a central focus on the LGBTQ+ community. Phenomenal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Racism, Suicide, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Terminal illness, Drug use, Outing, Physical abuse, Cursing, Infidelity, Misogyny, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Self harm, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexism

Moderate: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Abortion, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, and Eating disorder

thebookpaiges's review

emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Cursing, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Eating disorder and Body shaming

raeerdna's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring 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

3.75

a good book but not the type that I usually like to read. loved how well I could compare myself with the womanhood of Evelyn, even if she's so much beyond with everything, I loved how you could still compare yourself with her. sometimes I even forgot that there is a present time in the book besides her life, so it was a nice touch of reality when it happened. loved how that could make me grip the fact that I'm reading about someone "real" and see her as a person, not only a celebrity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide, Abortion, Cancer, and Car accident

merlesstorys's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

4.5

This book is absolutely worth the hype!

The only thing that I didn’t like was the slow pacing, as well as the lacking of content warnings anywhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Physical abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Injury/injury detail, Suicide, Misogyny, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Grief, and Body shaming

ttumbletree's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Biphobia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Suicide, Abortion, and Body shaming

beccamarriner's review

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

Evelyn Hugo was a book I came into with a lot of expectations and I’m pleased that it didn’t disappoint. It’s been a long time since I’ve cried at a book and some of the characters really tugged on my heart strings. As Monique, i think Jenkins does a wonderful job of portraying Evelyn how she wanted, devoted to family and to an extent, a ruthless person and how it impacted those closest to her. The only thing missing for me in the book was a little bit of context for the world outside the characters. At the beginning when the book is set during the 50’s, there’s a lot of talk of how Hollywood is at that time but the more you read, and the timeline goes on, there’s less reference to culture at the time which I feel halts the characters ageing. The husbands were all portrayed uniquely and it helped to envision Evelyn at each stage of her life, I just wish there was more reference to LGBT culture at the time, how impactful it would be to her career if it was revealed that she was bisexual, especially with only the brief mention of AIDS.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Eating disorder and Drug use

luananki's review

emotional 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

i‘ve mixed emotions on how to rate the seven husbands of evelyn hugo. i was convinced that i wouldn’t pick it up - only because it’s not something i’d normally read but i loved it, i really did.
this book somehow manages to suck you in and does not let you go until the very last page. the writing is amazing and the characters in evelyn’s story felt very real. 
monique didn’t convince me though. i get that there had to be some story around how and why evelyn finally decided to tell her lifestory but i couldn’t find any interest in monique and her life. her story felt out of place in comparison to everything else in the book that felt so real and honest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Biphobia, Blood, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Toxic friendship, Car accident, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abortion, Cancer, Child abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

dandaloriian's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Eating disorder, Racism, and Biphobia