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Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

2356 reviews

mcc004's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Miscarriage, and Pedophilia

eedle_cacleberry's review against another edition

challenging hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Abortion, and Gaslighting

celilav18's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Suicide and Abortion

lalu's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

mmidi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

swally2005's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer and Suicide

cloverpatchreads's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Blood, Outing, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

issy_jacob's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy

in_themoonlight's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Car accident

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

liksie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

✨️WOW✨️
'Evelyn, wer war Ihre große Liebe?'

Dieses Buch war so viel besser als ich erwartet hatte! Ich kann gar nicht in Worte fassen, wie gut ich es fand. Ich dachte es könnte vielleicht ein wenig langweilig werden und war skeptisch vom Internet-hype. Aber schon der Schreibstil des Buches hat mir sehr gefallen. Die Abwechslung der Kapitel hat es zu einem fast read gemacht und die Artikel zwischendrin haben das Lesen erleichtert. 

"Sie werden es nicht versuchen. [...] Keiner will Menschen wie uns verstehen."

However ich habe bei diesem Buch tatsächlich mehrfach ein paar Tränen verloren XD. Definitiv ein emotionales, aufregendes und spannendes Buch mit Plottwists, Herzschmerz und realen Krisen.  

"Wir könnten im Gefängnis oder in einer psychatrischen Anstalt enden. Verstehst du das? Wir könnten eingewiesen werden. So weit hergeholt ist das nicht. So etwas kommt vor. Auf jeden Fall kannst du dich darauf verlassen, dass Niemand mehr unsere Anrufe beantworten würde."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol