Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

479 reviews

scvqa's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Suicide, Alcohol, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Abandonment, Miscarriage, and Abortion

tikidoo's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, and Abortion

ksilvio's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Cancer

Minor: Outing

annaj207's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, and Car accident

wavykt's review

inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow. Read this one in two days. I couldn’t put it down. Not at all what I expected it to be. Love the complexity of both loving/empathizing with Evelyn and also completely not understanding/disliking her. Complex characters going through complex things. But also put in a matter of fact way (or maybe it’s because it’s someone telling about their past?) so that you don’t sit there disagreeing with the path the author chose. It doesn’t feel like ‘a path the author chose’, rather these feel like real people. 

I’m seeing that there’s to be a Netflix adaptation of the book. Books to movies don’t always turn out well, but I think this could be done very well if given a good budget. Nervously excited to see what comes of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, Biphobia, Car accident, Child death, Pregnancy, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Terminal illness

julierambaeck's review

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

This was a smart book. Quite similar to "Daisy Jones and the Six" but still distinguishable. I really liked the characters, not one of them was 100% good. Everyone was flawed and did terrible things but you come to care for them anyways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Cancer

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Grief, Drug abuse, Child death, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent

jess_18's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

4.0

i thought i was going to give this book my ‘run of the mill, pretty decent book’ score of 3. but the last 15 ish chapters were beautiful and made me think about my own future.

i am terrified of losing the people i love and being confronted with a lot of loss in the final stretch of this book was incredibly impactful.

many a tear was shed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Suicide, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Biphobia, Pregnancy, Abortion, Body shaming, and Pedophilia

freckles_13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

I have so many emotions about this book. 

This book wasn’t what I expected it be. I have avoided it for a long time due to everyone loving it, and was scared that because it’s not my usual read, and the hype behind it, I would be underwhelmed by it.

But I wasn’t.

This book is about a morally grey woman who will do anything - and everything - to get what she wants. A powerful, flawed woman who goes through so much in her life, and watching it come together and to fall is just an amazing reading experience. 
This book has some lovely quotes in it, such as “be wary of men with something to prove”. I would want to say more but I don’t want to spoil it. 

I think the only thing that made me rate this less than a 5 star was the actual main character, Monique. Yes, she was good but I felt like her whole story was just boring compared to Evelyn’s own - and maybe that was the point.

Evelyn Hugo, you are correct, you will not be remembered by your multiple husbands, but for your own story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Car accident, Homophobia, Cancer, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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

Evelyn Hugo is a quintessential fictional biography that has consumed my waking moments. If you do anything, it should be to read this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Death, Rape, Toxic friendship, Grief, Physical abuse, Outing, Pregnancy, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Child abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Blood, Sexism, Death of parent, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Gaslighting, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, and Car accident

Moderate: Miscarriage

buud_w0rm's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

I went into the novel with just the hint that its main character was this blonde bombshell in the 1950s resembling Marylyn Monroe. I didn’t know there’d be such depth tying into her marriages and complexity of Evelyn Hugo’s Character. The constant balancing act of being a celebrity proves to be draining for the humanity especially the ruthless tabloids of the 50s-80s.

The title and appearance of the novel is so misleading I love that :)) Celia and Evelyn’ love story was  incredibly compelling. You can’t help but feel for both of them and their povs. Their tug of war between doing what they think is right for each other but in another sense still worrying about the wrong things really shakes the reader (me) irl. I basically loooved reading about Evelyn’s life but didn’t care much for Monique’s pov.. her subplot was a bit boring. The plot twist tho!? That actually shocked the hell outta me.  So many quotable moments in the last 100 pages.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Alcoholism, and Child death

Minor: Grief and Alcohol