Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

611 reviews

kits_den's review

emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Car accident, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Grief, and Infidelity

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

bella_01's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

This book is beautifully written. It was a real pleasure to read. I absolutely love the news articles scattered throughout, you get insight into both Evelyn's view and the Media's view of her (and how those conflict). I went into this book knowing there was a theme of LGBT+, but I absolutely did not expect this book to go the way it did. 
I know not all books that "blow up" and become popular are great but this book is absolutely amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Homophobia, Biphobia, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

maritimebibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Car accident, Misogyny, Grief, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicide, Cancer, Death, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

ellianderjoy's review

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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

Moderate: Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Biphobia, Medical content, Sexism, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Car accident, Pregnancy, Racism, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

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

disneyfan_1711's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Such an amazing saphic book about Hollywood

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Cancer, Death, Classism, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

thebookwhale's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

Ooookay let's see.

This book, I absolutely love the concept and the idea. I mean, I love historical fiction, especially when it's sapphic, and this story about Evelyn and also about the film industry is amazing.
I liked that we were introduced to Evelyn through Monique who is writing her biography. 
Though, Monique's story felt entirely unnecessary. It felt like it was only there to fill the book, and I would give this book a 5 star review immediately if it weren't for the absolutely unbelievable plot twist.

Spoiler

like no. I literally screamed out of frustration (over the writing) when I read this part. Like what is this 
"oh you remember the guy I left at the car accident? Yeah that's your father."
Yes, we were waiting for the explanation on why Evelyn chose Monique, but please, it was just so forced. I would have believed it more when the reason was something like "I liked the article you wrote about the struggles of suicidal people".

Also, I just couldn't care less for Monique as a character. I didn't care for her failed marriage or anything, but I understand that we needed to see the influence Evelyn had on people back at her time and also in the present. 
 
Now, let's talk about Celia and Evelyn. I don't get why they are shipped everywhere on social media. Personally, I found both of them extremely toxic together.

Spoiler

Evelyn telling herself that her career is more important than Celia and Celia demanding that Evelyn leaves everything for her, it's just not good.

However, this is not something that took away stars at my rating, since I think the relationship is showing that not everything is gold in a celebrity's life and that they have struggles as well. 
I think what made it even harder for them and had a huge impact on how the relationship went is the taboo that was (and is) on gay relationships. It's interesting to see how the world evolves on queer rights during that time period and also how the importance of Celia's and Evelyn's career in comparison to living out who they are changes throughout the book.

So overall, this was great and the only thing that stops me from a 5 star review is Monique. I didn't like her, I didn't care for her, she felt unnecessary, and I was inclined to skip the parts where she was talking with Evelyn ( I didn't tho).
Still, a great book that's worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexism

Moderate: Car accident, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Infertility

undercovertidalwave's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Sexism, and Death

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide

ruthmoog's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

I found I was enjoying this, it's a page-turner! Reliving the "truth" behind the icon from the safety of the present was gossipy and enthralling and could have been truthful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual content

Minor: Racism and Drug abuse

Spoiler

Cancer, COPD