A review by cocosreviews
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

5.0

I needed to refresh my memory a bit on this one and ended up reading almost 50 pages, so I thought that is a good thing to start with. When I first saw The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in a library, I had no intention of reading it. It seemed to me like another book that will focus on a love story with the same plot I read dozens of times before, and, although I also enjoy those kinds of books, the title and the cover of this one just made it a bit too much. So I judged a book by its cover. Like. An. Idiot. The storyline portrays an aspiring actress, Evelyn, over the course of her 70+ years of life. I could tell you that men were looking at her since she was 12, that they took advantage of her since she was 16. Or I could tell you the truth: she was a powerful character who took her fate in her own hands. She wasn’t taken advantage of, she was using everything in her arsenal to get where she wanted to go. And she did. This book is written in two POVs, the writer Evelyn hired for a mysterious reason to write her autobiography, and Evelyn’s, as the voice in her autobiography. As we go through key moments of her life, it is impressive to see how truthful Evelyn is to herself and to the reader, how she admits where she is to blame, and when others are. It portrays her character in such a realistic way that I could believe every thought that was going through her head. I forgave, punished and understood side by side with her. Loved it!