Reviews tagging 'Biphobia'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1629 reviews

hermione_gilmore's review against another edition

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

5.0

6 star rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I just finished this book at 1 am and I am not fine. Totally not fine. I strongly believe something inside me died during the course of reading this book. This was and probably will be the best book I‘ve ever read. Can you believe I originally never wanted to pick it up because I thought I don’t like literary fiction that much and it’s probably just overrated?!! It‘s not!!! If anything, not enough people have read it yet, because it‘s the greatest thing ever and such an important story to tell. Her take on bisexuality, journalism, lies and facts and life in the spotlight?! Too good and too important I loved every second of it. I want to reread right now like I read the last line (which was ICONIC to say the least) and I could have immediately started with the first line again and I am still really tempted to. Wow just wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Violence, Suicide, and Death

fionamatilda's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Biphobia, Abortion, and Suicide

Minor: Misogyny

wild_er_ness's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I preferred everything from Evelyn’s POV - it had a stronger voice and emotional depth. The prose from Evelyn’s POV is stronger too. 

I get that Monique is still growing into herself but found her narration and character a little cliché. I always found myself annoyed when the story switched back to her. 

The intertwining of their stories was interesting but didn’t affect me in some profound way. I was more moved by Evelyn’s singular account of her relationships. So, I’d recc for fun but it wasn’t life changing for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Suicide, and Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer and Abortion

darbylane's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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: Blood, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Alcohol, Outing, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cancer, Body shaming, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Biphobia

kingcrookback's review against another edition

emotional 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

...I wish I liked this the way I've seen other people like it. I don't hate it, by any means, but this really didn't live up to the hype for me. I'm all for diving into the nitty-gritty of fame and the panopticon of celebrity. I even found it engaging to tick off the references to real famous people and Old Hollywood stars - Evelyn as an amalgam of Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, and Joan Didion, Harry's car accident analogous to Montgomery Clift's and his being closeted similar to Cary Grant's - and I appreciated that Reid didn't strain credulity by shoehorning or name-dropping actual celebrities. But the only part of this book's treatment of fame that truly engaged me was

Spoiler

the transactional exchange between Evelyn and her driver after Harry's car accident

because it stood out as one of the only times I could viscerally feel how grimy the business of fame could be.

Little else about the book truly grabbed me. Evelyn was handled in this blandly girlboss-y feminist way and had a jarringly modern understanding of queerness for the 1950s-70s. The amount of time we got to spend with Celia wasn't really conducive to building an actual attachment to her character, ditto Monique. The memoir narrative felt unmoored in time, despite the descriptions of clothing that were supposed to help in that respect. Like, I don't care what people were wearing, tell me about what attitudes were like in that decade, that year. If you want to talk about the fashion so badly, why not make some connection to how clothing can signify in microcosm what was going on in society at large? Once again, I honestly just wish I saw what other people see in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Cancer, Suicide, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death of parent, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

joanacoutinho's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Biphobia, Car accident, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

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

Minor: Suicide, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

ash_is_reading_books's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, and Death

martob's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I havet cried this hard for a book ever! Such an emotional rollercoaster!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Homophobia, Biphobia, Alcoholism, Death, Cancer, and Car accident

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Car accident, Blood, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Medical content, Suicide, Biphobia, Child death, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

Great book! I absolutely loved Evelyn’s story. She was complex and awful and I loved her. 
Unfortunately, I can’t quite rate it 5 stars because Monique’s narration drove me crazy. She was a good character, but why did she have to narrate. Every. Single. Action?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Car accident, Classism, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship