Reviews with content warning for Domestic abuse - Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo

Love Evelyn. Love how calculating she was, how she knew how to get what she wanted and also how honest she was with Monique.

Not giving this a 5 star rating bc it wasn’t that addictive to me, but I love the speed of the book. So, if I could, I’d give it a 4,5, but since I can’t then it’s just a 4 xd.

I love the friendship Harry and Evelyn have, that’s the type of friendship that I think everyone looks for, just someone who you know will catch you when you fall (I think Evelyn said that too).

And, obviously, the romance is great. Celia is a bit dramatic but we all love her. Their story is just full of passion, love and also heartbreak. The story takes place in a time LGBTQ+ ppl couldn’t be out and show off their partners as freely as now (even tho in this century we still have to see a lot of hate and violence towards the community).

Monique was a character I didn’t like at first, but you can see how she changes while she listens to Evelyn’s story, which is great.

Anyway, this book is good. If you wanna read it, I recommend it 100% and I’m sorry if I did any mistakes in this review bc English is not my first language xd.

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emotional

Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I'm not sure how to rate this... I read it within 4 days which is really fast for me, and I cried twice which almost never happens.

Maybe it was the way the book was written. I really like the chapters where Evelyn and Monique interacted, but I still don't get if the other chapters were meant to be monologues by Evelyn, flashbacks, or chapters from the biography. And I feel like I didn't really get to know the characters apart from Monique, Evelyn and Harry. They felt rather two dimensional, even Celia and Connor. That might have been a stylistic choice because Evelyn's perception was very much centered on herself, but I still didn't like it. It diminished the effect of a novel that spans decades, something I normally love because I feel like I really get to know all the characters.

And even though they were rare, I really hated these ominous foreshadowing bits like

I have no idea that in less than a week, Evelyn Hugo will finish her story, and I'll find out what this has all been about, and I will hate her so much that I'll be truly afraid I might kill her.

Also the car accident and the big secret felt kinda forced, a bit like an afterthought to add more drama?

But overall I enjoyed reading this book immensely so I'm really torn about how to rate and feel about it.

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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? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

After hearing about this book so positively for so long, I was finally able to read it and see what the hype was about. I can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and thought the story was entertaining, romantic, and tragic at points.

That being said, I do feel that character and plot development was sacrificed for other story lines that didn’t really contribute much to the overall story. I felt the author working to connect Monique and Evelyn on a more profound level did nothing to move to story forward and if anything, took away from the overall story. I would’ve loved to read this book as just an Evelyn Hugo story with no distractions about Monique and her life.

The love story in this book, while captivating and endearing, fell sort of flat for me. I read many times about how beautiful characters were, but didn’t get to know them much beyond Evelyn’s physical descriptions of them. It made it hard to connect with any character other than Evelyn. As I type this, maybe that was the point?

Either way, this was a very enjoyable read but it didn’t feel as profound or life changing of a read as I anticipated from previous reviews.

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