Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

202 reviews

cogowno's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-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: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Classism, Drug abuse, and Outing

sebradley29'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: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, Infertility, Abortion, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Biphobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

marymik2013's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This story gave me a perspective on fame I never considered. After reading this, I have so much more empathy for celebrities. I catch myself speculating their decisions, news articles, etc. and pausing to realize that I have no idea who these people are and that I can’t pass judgement on them because of that. I’m so glad I read this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Grief, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Alcohol, and Physical abuse

dolphinchick93's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

To love a woman like Celia St. James

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Sexual content, Cancer, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Chronic illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Biphobia, Sexism, Abortion, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Miscarriage

Minor: Death of parent, Blood, Classism, Outing, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Cursing, Car accident, and Cancer

depressed_cat07's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a reread from 2017 when I first read the book (which was also the time that the book was not that famous as it is now), and I feel that the book still holds up! I swear TJR laced this book with drugs- fast paced, easily readable, with a central character I couldn't take my attention away from, and heartbreaking too. Still has some sour spots here and there but overall a great book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

moltedmilk's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Beautiful story, I read this really fast and I am usually a slow reader. I loved how complex Evelyn’s character is. Such a good book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Abortion, Cancer, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Alcohol

badbadwolf's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Outing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Homophobia, Suicide, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Cancer, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Sexual content

emjay2021's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.5

Absolute page turner. If you had asked me before if I was that interested in the lives of Golden Age Hollywood movie stars, I would have said, eh, not really. But I could not put this down and essentially read it in two sittings. The story works like this: Monique Grant, a junior writer at a Vanity Fair type magazine, is given a plum writing assignment, a cover story on the glamorous 80 year old former movie star Evelyn Hugo. It turns out Evelyn asked for Monique specifically but won’t reveal exactly why. So, Monique turns up at Evelyn’s New York apartment and hears her life story, warts and all. Interspersed with Evelyn’s rags-to-Hollywood-riches story are snippets from Monique’s life: newly separated from her husband, who has moved from New York to San Francisco for a job.

I thought the parts with Evelyn far outshone the bits with Monique. But we do discover by the end why Evelyn chose Monique specifically, and the book earns back a little bit with that ending.

I thought it was an excellent yarn, and the way the story was told (first person narrative by Evelyn for the most part) was a wise choice. You really do feel like an old movie star is telling you about her life.

There’s nothing particularly earthshaking in here, but that said, I was pleasantly surprised at how much of the narrative addressed social issues like homophobia, racism, and sexism. I was also a little surprised at just how moved I was by the ending of the book.

I enjoyed this at least as much as Daisy Jones and the Six, maybe a little more. I didn’t listen to it as an audiobook but I bet it would be a good one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Grief, Sexism, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Racism

celery's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

3.75

the plot twist was stupid and I was bored most of the time but I did cry

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Vomit, Outing, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Addiction, Cancer, Classism, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

bxnny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Biphobia, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Hate crime, Drug use, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Outing, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault