Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

182 reviews

jrozin's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

I finished this book in 3 days and I didn’t ever want to put it down! I loved how the narrative was told,  the characters were compelling, and the writing style was easy and had a nice flow to it. The plot twist at the end was well executed but I felt like it wasn’t necessary.   

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, and Pedophilia

iwephay's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Car accident

amy_howard28's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

I really enjoyed Evelyn’s point of view throughout the book, but didn’t get on with Monique’s parts in the beginning, I eventually saw how it connected together but I just didn’t find those breaks in the story that interesting. Very good book club book, there are questions at the back to discuss too! I was slightly suprised at how rude Celia could be at times but I guess that demonstrated how she was as flawed as Evelyn even if she didn’t think so. It also show another side to the Georgia Peach, the friendly, cute, girl next door neighbour personality painted by the media.
Very interesting read too, to see the “Golden Era” of Hollywood through Evelyn. I would definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Pedophilia and Abortion

particledamage's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

0.75

I feel like I am actively going insane.

Seeing good reviews for this books feels like I am on another planet.

This book is genuinely dreadful. It is both rushed and a slog. It is both biphobic and bisexual, racially inclusive and racist, about misogyny and sexist. It's preachy but only ever about like... basic decency things we all agree about. Finding out the author is straight and white clarified the book for me, truly felt like someone had just lovingly pried open my third eye so I could see the truth of the matter. 

I honestly don't even think I can neatly summarize all of my complaints here. I sent myself emails with incoherent notes to myself about every new thing that set me off--her "soulmate" being emotionally abusive in patterns identically to her physically abusive spouse. The weird bullying about coming out as if was a CW show handling its first gay plotline and not about two grown women in the 50s and 60s. The weird contrived bit where whenever someone needed to get exposed for something, everyone would suddenly become letter-writers so that the letters could be found. The plot twist that was so insanely stupid I dropped the book.

The way that not only did the book pause to go on diatribes to know that terms like "whore" are bad but also spent an entire chapter knowing every single historical event that has happened, Evelyn was on the right side of it. She's complicated and obsessed with herself and money and glory but don't worry, she was right about Vietnam and treats her hired help well.

God, her character was repugnant but mostly in a dull way. Every character in this story was uninteresting, heinous, or both. Even Harry gets ruined in the end and he was the single enjoyable character the entire way through.

Just... what an awful experience. I'm speechless. 

Read it just in a day though, so at least there's that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Classism

Minor: Eating disorder, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

livvmarks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

adalinemccormick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Abortion

seadeepy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Blood, and Car accident

Moderate: Biphobia, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Abortion, and Death of parent

jasmineslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

reread ♻️
this time i listened to the audiobook and i found it just as enjoyable as reading it the first time :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

roohreads_13's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.25

this was one of my best reads of 2022. i loved the fact that all the main characters were flawed and as human as possible. set back in old hollywood, evelyn hugo did everything she could to escape the miserable condition she grew up in and rise to fame as her mother dreamt. she ended up being one of the biggest and most controversial actors of hollywood. but after marrying seven men, who had she really loved?
i loved the plot, the main characters and the ending. would do anything to reread it again !

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

hannux's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Cancer, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail