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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

251 reviews

kappafrog's review

emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

I zoomed through this book. I was really compelled to find out all its secrets. But now that I'm done, I'm not sure how o feel about it. The ending should have had more to it after a major revelation late in the book. The handling of race was clumsy. But I loved the fictionalization of a situation many in Hollywood found themselves in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Blood, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Child abuse, Cursing, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Car accident, Classism, Body shaming, and Homophobia

Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Racism, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Outing, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual violence, Hate crime, Incest, and Rape

crimelessvictim's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Car accident, Chronic illness, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Abortion, Death, and Child death

kananineko's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Homophobia, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Death, Car accident, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Cancer, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Misogyny, Cursing, Blood, Racism, Xenophobia, Sexism, Medical content, and Infidelity

Minor: Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Drug abuse, and Drug use

ellawatwat's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Cursing, Suicide, Cancer, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Child death, Car accident, Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

anielabooks's review against another edition

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

4.5

I very much enjoyed this book. I saw the plot twist coming, but I was still interested in getting to the end. The format was original and intriguing. I’m reminded of Reid’s other book Daisy Jones and the Six with its interview format. It’s not exaggerated to say the Reid has a great skill at untraditional storytelling methods. I would definitely recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Car accident, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Abortion, Blood, Cursing, Misogyny, Outing, Pregnancy, Drug use, Gaslighting, Infertility, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Sexual content

c_e_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Body shaming

dlsmk's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Grief, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Suicide

baearles's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

Minor: Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abortion, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Drug use, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

msradiosilence's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

0.5

TLDR; 1.5 rating, I hate this book and everything it stands for. I get a little rant-y. Sue me.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

I gave this 1 star on GR because it’s a hellsite, but it gets .5 stars because I did in fact read this in only a few days. I’ll say this about TJR, her books aren’t badly written. She just sucks as a person.

First off, TJR is a white woman. I have very strong opinions about staying in your lane as a white woman, and TJR swerved all over the goddamn highway. Not only is the main character a Black woman, but the other main character is a Latina woman. Does TJR belong to either of those communities? No. And to yadda yadda their communities, TJR

kills Monique’s father in a horrific way so she doesn’t have that connection to her heritage

and has Evelyn repress everything about her Latina roots. When this book came out, there was huge backlash from the Latine community about a white woman taking up space in the publishing industry that could have been made for a Latine author to write in (do not get me started on racism in publishing, we’d be here all day) and she apologized and said she wouldn’t do it again, she’d lift up own-voices authors, etc. And then she didn’t do that and instead wrote Carrie Soto is Back, which had a whole thing about the title in Spanish that — shocking! — once again TJR didn’t understand the complexity and nuance of and insulted an entire community of people. The Black and Latine perspectives are just some that white authors cannot ever have, considering their whiteness, and therefore should not be writing in the perspective of Black and Latine characters. No one is saying white authors CAN’T have diverse casts, because white authors should, but rather that they shouldn’t try to write from a perspective they can’t conceivably share. I don’t care how much research they do, it is not enough when compared to lived experience. 

(sources: google is free, but https://www.feministbookclub.com/taylor-jenkins-reid-is-back-with-her-bs/, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dJ54Fp/, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dJPbaD/, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dekrA8/, and https://shelit.com/2022/10/04/carrie-soto-is-back-and-the-problem-of-white-authors-creating-main-characters-of-color/#:~:text=Book%20influencers%20expressed%20concern%20about,character%20against%20an%20Asian%20character.)

Secondly, I’m bi. To this day, there are still biphobic members of the LGBTQ+ community that say we’re either not gay enough, or that we need to pick a side, or that we’re lying, etc (few and far between, but always a take I see in online spaces around Pride Month). And to have that thrown back in my face while I’m reading a book by a straight author? What the fuck? Celia is constantly being biphobic, and it doesn’t help that Evelyn is lesbophobic in the beginning. TJR wouldn’t know this, being that (again) she’s not a part of the community, but a lot of people use the term ‘gay’ as an umbrella term. Just like the pride flag encompasses the whole community, gay can be a term to mean any sexuality within the LGBTQ+ spectrum. But Evelyn reacts with such immediate vitriol to being called gay, it just leaves such a horrible taste in my mouth, especially when there is such animosity between certain corners of the LGBTQ+ community. It’s just not something a straight author gets to comment on, especially when they don’t understand the nuance surrounding that conversation.

Also the ending?

Not only are you writing perspectives that aren’t yours, you had Monique forgive the woman that killer her father???

What the FUCK. Eat the rich, even the fictional ones. 

Anyway. Considering both of my major points cover basically the entire book, fuck TJR and no, I don’t care if Daisy Jones is a good show, or if Malibu Rising is a good book. I will not read anything else by this woman, and I’ll be getting rid of Evelyn Hugo as soon as I’m able.

Rating: 0.5
Would I recommend? Abso-fucking-lutely not. 

Content warnings: Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Car accident, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Racism, Sexual content, Death, Gaslighting, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Pregnancy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Homophobia, Blood, Car accident, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

thewritetofight's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.75

GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Cursing, Lesbophobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Biphobia, and Car accident