Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1282 reviews

louise_outthere's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.25

Well what a life…
Lots of people recommended me this book so I had to read it. 
As always Taylor Jenkins Reid knows how to write, it’s very easy to read and you always want to know what’s coming next! And let me tell you this is a prowess when you know how much I didn’t like Evelyn Hugo.
I could not care less about Evelyn, Celia, Monique and co… The only one likable was Harry and poor guy!
It’s still a good book and a great story. I like how transitions are done between the different eras, very flowing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Alcohol, Car accident, Grief, Chronic illness, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Abortion, Suicide, and Terminal illness

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

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

thea_maarup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I don’t think I’ve ever read such an impactful book. I’m almost too stunned to think rn. There’s so much to take away from this and I feel as though I’ve just had years worth of life experience in these 24 hours. I love this book. It’s genius and unlike any I’ve read before. I was crying non-stop the last few chapters too.😪😮‍💨 I will be thinking about this indefinitely. At least, it will definitely distract me from my nearing exam(this is a bad thing, my mother would say).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Drug abuse

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

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

larareads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Car accident, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Abortion

willow_witch's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Death, Biphobia, and Car accident

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Racism, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

classical_learner's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

2.75

I was unsure exactly what to rate this book. Still am.
This book is a prime example of why to read literature about ideas you disagree with. The basic storyline follows the ascension of a fictitious actress to Hollywood fame and, basically, how she pursues all the wrong things.

Spoiler alert: the title is written as such because EH is actually bisexual and the key character is her "wife," not most of the men.

There were several genius plot twists, but unfortunately, I guessed the final big one within the first few chapters. The writing of this book was very well-executed, but, ironically, good writing is sometimes the least important part of a book. What was worthwhile was watching someone realize that fame is not all it is cracked up to be and that people, in fact, are not all that great at heart.
The valuable part of fiction like this is learning from a character who chooses the wrong things instead of the right. The dangerous part of fiction like this is an author misidentifying the wrong things as the right.
What the author aspires to do is depict how genuine love can exist in many imperfect forms--haphazard, familial, friendly, romantic, etc. In a sense, this is true, of course--this world is messy, and good relationships are rarely uncomplicated. But its debilitating pitfall is that it categorizes lust, same-sex friendships, opposite-sex coworker affairs, and protecting one's child all equally as "love." This is a horrible problem on so many levels, but most of all, leaves the book self-contradictory in its exhortation to shirk some types of "love" for another "love." Moreover, marriage is viewed as entirely transactional and temporary (think "marriage is in the eye of the beholder"). Unsurprisingly, this results in an empty-feeling view of life--don't take my word for it! The book itself praises so-called "Medical Assistance In Dying," aka, doctor-enabled suicide.
I picked this book up due to noticing its persistent popularity and desiring to know what made people like it and whether there even was anything worthwhile in it--to the former, it simply accurately reports on the present unbiblical cultural worldview; to the latter, see above.
This book is so quintessentially representative of depressing postmodern society that I would even consider reading it in a discussion group, had I the time.

Thus, a majority of what raises this book's rating is how well it represents things I drastically disagree with.

Taylor Jenkins Reid--go read The Four Loves.

Note: there were some startling descriptions of classically Hollywood sexual encounters, but these were easy enough to skip.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual content

carlytenille's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Classism, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Suicide, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Cancer, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Death, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Sexism