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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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cat_astrophe12's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective 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? No

5.0

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cutepatzie's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

I love strong character like Hugo. The story was amazing, its a lot of things that we can agree with Hugo, and many that we will not. But I enjoy this book. Love seeing stories where characters are not black or white, but more complex and in the gray zone. It was nice to see the old Hollywood that was big and crazy back in the day. And also I love showing that being a girl is hard and will always be the battel with the system.

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bookswithlauren's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

"When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things"

Reading 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' is one of my favourite reading experiences to date. It made me, laugh, it made me smile with complete joy, it made me cry, it made me angry and it completely consumed me from start to finish. I adore Evelyn Hugo and her life, I want to have known Evelyn Hugo, I want to have been a part of her life. I want to read more and more about her. The exploration of fame and Hollywood, sexuality, self acceptance, race, religion, sexism, friendship, family, abusive relationships and so much more is nothing short of perfection.

Taylor Jenkins Reid has such an interesting structure to her writing and I very much enjoy it. Both of her books that I have read so far have been an interview structure with dual timelines. It is such an interesting, clever way to write, I find it to immerse the reader in such a profound way. I cannot wait to read more of her work.

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manishasahota's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective 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

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

I almost cried in front of my whole family while reading it.

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chavborromeo's review against another edition

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emotional 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

Alexa play "The lucky One" by Taylor Swift

"New to town with a made-up name In the angel's city, chasing fortune and fame And the camera flashes make it look like a dream

You had it figured out since you were in school Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool So overnight, you look like a '60s queen"

This book gave me a lot of feels. I feel like I'm riding a roller coaster. It feels like I really know who is Evelyn Hugo and I'm a fan ever since and now that I'm reading her biography, it feels like an end of an era😭 She feels real to me. I really forgot I'm reading a book.

Every flip of pages, I always tell myself I understand where she was coming from. Evelyn Hugo grew up in an abusive and not so good environment. Her mother died when she was a child so she was left with her abusive father. Thats why she really did everything to go out of "hell's kitchen" and fulfill her mother's dream. To be in limelight. I don't want to call her unprivileged because being pretty and sexy is a privilege. She have that privilege and she used that to her own advantage. And I can't blame her for that. In fact I understand her.

Before I'm firm believer of "if you want to reach the top, stop using elevator and learn how to use the stairs". But if you have advantage to reach the top quickly, wouldn't you going to use that? It may be immoral or disgusting but that's the only way she thinks she can do.

"And that you have to be willing to deny your heritage, to commodify your body, to lie to good people, to sacrifice who you love in the name of what people will think, and to choose the false version of yourself time and time again, until you forget who you started out as or why you started doing it to begin with."

She never claimed to be good. She's in between of good and evil. I won't say that I agree with everything that she did because most of the time I don't agree with her. But thats her life and she have the rights to do whatever she wants to do with it.

When it comes to marriage, marriage is just a paper. Whats important is your true love and faith with each other. But I don't think she needs to get married with some of them. Is boyfriend-girlfriend not a thing? Everything happened so fast.

Evelyn done a lot of questionable things in the past and she said she didn't regret those. But I think she gave more important to "fame" than to people she loves. And thats her biggest mistakes. Celia St. James loved Evelyn genuinely but she was idealistic. But i still love her for her understanding and patience. Evelyn's great love. Harry Cameron, the ride and die best friend of Evelyn and her different kind of soulmate. He was with her from the start. And I'm sad he died early.😭

Imagine the kind of pain you experienced witnessing everyone you love died and you left alone. That's why I can't blame her for doing that thing in the end. Also, with Monique's position. I don't know what to do. Knowing someone's going to end her life. You don't if you'll going to respect or save her.

Its really difficult to live in a patriarchal society. But I can't say she smashed the patriarchy since she was benefiting something from it. And somehow dangerous? Because some women may think to just succumb under patriarchy instead of resisting it??? And plot aside, I love how this book is beautifully written. The transition? Choice of words? The quotes? And the emotions it conveyed? Top tier. It made me feel empty and longing after I'm done reading it. Such a good book. I'm finally done hays.

PS. There's a lot of Taylor Swift song lyrics in the book though👀❤

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