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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

232 reviews

picky_nikki's review

adventurous inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

A page turner! It was a bit slow paced at the beginning for me but after few pages in the book just picks up the pace (+ the story) and doesn't stop. It's hard to keep it down then. Definitely a favourite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion, Suicide, and Miscarriage

slayharrie28's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely loved it and I think everyone should read it. Taylor Jenkins Reid is an incredible author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Outing, Death, Grief, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Homophobia, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abortion, Biphobia, Cursing, Terminal illness, Sexism, Outing, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

Minor: Dysphoria

seadeepy's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Classism, Biphobia, Sexual assault, Grief, Misogyny, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Racism, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Abortion

camiclarkbooks's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.5

“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the story of the titular Evelyn Hugo. 

Evelyn Hugo was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars from the 1960s to the 1980s and won international attention for her striking beauty. At age 79, Evelyn is ready to share all the details of her glamorous—and scandalous—life. 

She decides to give her story to Monique Grant, a virtually unknown reporter, to the surprise of everyone, including Monique. Recently separated from her husband and stuck in a dead end position at work, Monique seizes the opportunity to boost her writing career by agreeing to write Evelyn’s biography. Besides, if she didn’t agree to, Evelyn would have taken the sordid details of her life to her grave. 

As the two work together, going through the timeline of Evelyn’s struggle to break into Hollywood in the 1950s until her decision to retire from the business in the 1980s, Monique developed a connection to the icon. She rationalizes many of the cutthroat, calculated decisions Evelyn had to make along the way. Monique is also captivated on the reveal of Evelyn’s forbidden love, her greatest love out of all of her seven husbands. As the two women near the end of the interviews, Monique realizes that her life is irrevocably entwined with Evelyn’s in the most tragic ways. 

This was a book I’d been looking forward to reading for months and waited impatiently until I could check it out from my local library. Everyone in the bookish community has spoken so highly of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” for years and after being blown away by the artistry of “Daisy Jones and the Six,” I had high expectations. But this book fell short. 

With the exception of Evelyn Hugo herself, the characters were bland. The b-plots were forgettable and even the overarching plot was largely predictable and uninspired. With that being said, the representation and diversity the characters and plot threads offered are excellent. Jenkins Reid did an excellent job balancing representing such a wide range of people for a modern audience in a way that was appropriate for the setting of the book. 

It is undeniable that Jenkins Reid has tremendous talent. Most authors steer away from overly explaining movements and describing items, but Jenkins Reid doesn’t and it works. Rather than inundating the reader with too much information, it creates a very specific image in the reader’s mind as they go through the book. 

Overall, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is an interesting tale of a fictitious version of Old Hollywood loosely inspired by several real people from the time period. It subverted expectations in many ways, but was also predictable in others. The characters weren’t as complex as other characters Jenkins Reid has written, but the writing style of the book is unique enough to partially make up for that. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Biphobia, Death, Toxic friendship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

codyroberts541's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

sapphic_king's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Homophobia, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

bcakhavan's review

emotional 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: Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Car accident, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Suicide

emi12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexism, Cancer, Suicide, Homophobia, and Death

Moderate: Car accident, Abortion, and Miscarriage

becway's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.5

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of my favorite books. The story telling of Evelyn’s life really made her seem like an actual person. It also had me loving, but also, hating Evelyn Hugo.

Spoiler

Her life long love affair with Celia was heart wrenching and beautiful.

TJR made me feel as though I was living Evelyn’s life through her storytelling. I found myself reading this book whenever I had a chance. The plot twist and connection that Monique and Evelyn shared really took me by surprise and had me gasping in shock. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

ellaskrovset's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

My number 1 favourite of all time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault