Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1061 reviews

bakergirlsbooks1999's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Self harm, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Suicide, Drug use, Abortion, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Grief, Biphobia, Car accident, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

zojbean's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

3.0

As the singer Laufey once said: “Oh I’m boOOOOREEEEDDD!!”

I really don’t know what to say about this. On one hand I enjoyed how human Evelyn felt but overall I just didn’t really care about anything? Without any spoilers, the final wedding might be the only scene in the book that made me emotional. 

Some of the quotes that I liked:

You are the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.

You are not capable of giving it up and you never will be. And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Death, Car accident, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide

cherie17's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Misogyny, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Terminal illness, and Child death

hannahromans's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

Truly one of the most incredible books I’ve ever read. I’ve read a couple books by this author in the past and liked them a lot but this book was absolutely incredible. I loved it right from the start but could barely put it down after about halfway through. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, and Terminal illness

mdal26's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Suicide, Terminal illness, Car accident, Abortion, Addiction, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Outing, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Grief

sillybillybooklover's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I urge you to read this, like right now! It's a rare gem of a novel that will honestly leave you breathless and wanting more. In one word it's delicious. If I could give it 10 stars I would. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Terminal illness, Car accident, Suicide, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

ksmith_23's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Death, Homophobia, Alcohol, Car accident, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Cancer, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Chronic illness, and Addiction

Minor: Child death

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

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 against another edition

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