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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1852 reviews

depressed_cat07's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a reread from 2017 when I first read the book (which was also the time that the book was not that famous as it is now), and I feel that the book still holds up! I swear TJR laced this book with drugs- fast paced, easily readable, with a central character I couldn't take my attention away from, and heartbreaking too. Still has some sour spots here and there but overall a great book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

natalie75's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicide

boombaeyah'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

4.75

I love, love, LOVE Evelyn and Celia and their love story. I could read their story over and over and over again. The only thing that keeps it from being a full 5 stars is the author’s tone-deaf writing of one of the main characters, Monique. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Alcoholism

asteria_6179's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Misogyny, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Cancer, and Biphobia

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Abortion

star_witch's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I borrowed the book from a friend, after she insisted I read it, and now I don't know if I'm supposed to thank her or make her pay for my therapy.

SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING:

I didn't even think I was going to cry. 
I didn't cry when Harry died, or Celia, or Connor. Or even Evelyn.
I cried when Monique's mom started reminiscing about her husband (and Monique's father).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Death, Alcohol, Biphobia, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

ebreheny25's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.75

This book emotionally wrecked me and I don’t think I could be more grateful for it. You can tell it was made with so much heart and care for the characters. The only reason it’s not a 5-star is cause I found some of the pacing wonky and it took more time than anticipated to get into. But, I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Drug abuse

Minor: Cancer, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, and Suicide

hayleyw's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Moderate: Biphobia, Blood, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexism, Racism, Homophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Cancer, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

zzaranazz's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

(docking a point bc tjr is a zi0nist lol) holy fucking shit, I tried reading this book so many different times over the 2 1/2 years that I’ve owned it and every single time it would fall flat and fly over my head. I couldn’t get into it, the story was dragging, for whatever reason I didn’t understand what the hype was around this book until I went into it on this time around and I couldn’t get enough of it. 
the last hundred pages is just tragedy after tragedy after tragedy and it is genuinely got wrenching, I read the last third of the book in a coffee shop. Don’t recommend that. She finally gets the love of her life back a second time, then her best friend/father of her child, dies in a horrific car crash and she has to cover it up, she learns that the love of her life, who she just got back is terminally ill, and they get 10 good years. Until she dies in her arms, while stuck in a marriage with her brother that was loveless but he was a good father to her child, until he also died, and then her kid dies of breast cancer?!? 
and then you learn that the person she framed for the death of her best friend Is the dead father, who was the lover of said, best friend, Of the main character in the present day?!? I mean, how can you not fucking love this book. 
It made me unstable in public and I did in fact cry for like two hours in a coffee shop in the middle of San Diego, but it makes me want to get on a plane to fly 2000 miles across the country to go see my partner and tell her how much I love her because I’ll be damned if decades with her were stolen from me for fear of the rest of the world finding out queer ppl exist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Cancer

Moderate: Abortion

ghost_cat_xo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Moderate: Abortion, Body shaming, Biphobia, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Cancer, Sexual content, Homophobia, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Car accident, Suicide, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

May 2024 Reread:

I’m sobbing in my bed at 2am as I write this, and I adore this book so much.

Original review (May 2022):

Rating: 5/5 stars

Lowly staff writer Monique Grant is stunned and confused when she is personally requested by aging Hollywood superstar Evelyn Hugo to write an article for Monique’s magazine—and she’s even more confused when Evelyn reveals that what she really wants is for Monique to tell her life (and love) story to the world.

Before picking this one up, I regularly felt like the last person on earth who hadn’t read it, so there’s not much I can say here that hasn’t already been said elsewhere, and you almost certainly don’t need me to convince you to read this one. That said, I’m adding my voice to the chorus to say I absolutely loved this book and all the glowing reviews and rave tributes are 100% correct. It’s a thing of stunning beauty, hilarious wit, and breathtaking heart, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: historical fiction; LGBTQ+ stories; Hollywood glamour vibes.

CW: Homophobia; misogyny; death (including death of child and death of parent); terminal illness; suicide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual violence, Death, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse