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: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

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

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

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

Minor: Drug use and Biphobia

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

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

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

jlaz_13's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abandonment and Hate crime

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

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

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

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