Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

118 reviews

amykwrites's review against another edition

emotional 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, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Classism

cody's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

enthralling but gave me the ick in the last third or so

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Grief, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Biphobia and Drug use

lisrae's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

bstar03's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Abandonment

jlaz_13's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Hate crime and Abandonment

bookishfaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

I really don’t know how to rate this book. On one hand, I loved Evelyn’s narrative voice & I did find the story as a whole captivating. However, I knew about some rough representation going into this, & absolutely the Latinx, black/biracial, bisexual, & lesbian rep in this book all were deeply questionable, upsetting, & frustrating. Harry Cameron was the main redeeming quality of this book at times for me & the ending of his story tying into the plot twist in the end made me utterly sick to my stomach.  

Using the murder of a black queer man as the main gotcha moment in this book was so wildly upsetting & I’m really bothered by how swept under the rug that is.

While this book does bring up important talking points, there is just so must harmful ignorance in the writing of the book that I don’t think I could in good faith recommend it to another person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

amberrenfrey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, and Alcohol

l4urenbrooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

4.75

I'm just scared to give any book 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

minsreadingnook's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-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

3.75

3.9*
Thoughts:
The more I thought about the story as a whole, the more my rating dropped lol but If you would’ve asked me while I was reading the story, I would’ve given it a 5*. I feel like the ending was somehow… lackluster. I don’t know why to be honest, probably because I was just not ever invested in Monique as a character. Or maybe I just expected so much.

Connor’s name just reminds me of Connor Murphy but I love the way motherhood was portrayed.
Evelyn was such an interesting character to read. I devoured this book because of her.
I don’t like Celia that much but the nice parts of their relationship was pretty cute. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

amgarrido's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide