Reviews tagging 'Outing'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

468 reviews

norabeideineroma's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Car accident, Alcohol, Racism, Miscarriage, Biphobia, Blood, Addiction, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Outing, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, and Body shaming

starlitpage's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

The book was well written, and extremely engrossing. However, I found it hard to enjoy when I often disliked the characters and disagreed with their actions morally. The writing is such that I understand their motivations, but my star rating is strongly colored by how I personally liked it, and I have very different views on things like marriage than someone with seven husbands.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Death, Racism, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Abortion, Biphobia, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Outing, and Homophobia

This book looks at discrimination (racism, etc) that Evelyn faced in Hollywood; the book does not condone that, though, and does not excuse it as a product of its time or otherwise.

tiddlerrr's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I cried at the end. Every character is so bloody unlikeable, the relationships quite toxic, and yet you kind of can’t help but root for some of them. 

I don’t think this is actually that amazing of a book, it’s certainly not life changing. But the ending still got me and it sucked me in, in that way watching reality tv does. 

The way I feel about this book in the moments after finishing it feel like an oxymoron, I feel emotional yet all I’ve done is complain about it. I think it’s the sort of book I’ll think of occasionally but never plan on re-reading.

I also hated the first 3ish chapters of this, the initial set up was incredibly boring.

Edit: upon reflection I’m pretty sure the reason I cried so much was pms and sleep deprivation  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Cancer, Alcoholism, Car accident, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Outing

Minor: Suicide, Drug use, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, and Blood

biojesspj's review

emotional funny tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Racism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, and Homophobia

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

notpresent22's review

emotional inspiring 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

4.0

I would never say that this book surprised me. But it’s not necessary for the type of book this is. In fact it’s actually a credit to this book that I was never surprised. Everything that happens has its purpose and is a consequence of a choice made. 
This is a tragedy through and through and while I did not feel sad I was broken-hearted 
Great book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Blood, Cancer, Miscarriage, Drug use, Outing, Car accident, Infertility, Alcoholism, Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Abortion and Child abuse

carefulfearanddeaddevotion's review

emotional funny reflective sad slow-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

4.75

4.9999999/5 bc apparently Ms Jenkins Reid was going for a

bury your gays world record. damn. not one of those bitches made it out alive

the story was captivating, the characters were well-rounded and complicated, and the dual timelines were well-executed. she managed to make me care for Monique even though we spent significantly less time in the present. i liked the way the husbands were split up into their own little segments and the little qualifiers before each of their names. 

i really really really liked it until the last maybe 100 pages—

bury your gays pops up to say hello

—when i started liking it marginally less. so if i’m being really really honest with myself it might be more like 4.5 or maybe even 4 stars. but the story and characters were so well-crafted that i feel compelled to give it a 5. i’ll def pick up another TJR book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Car accident, Terminal illness, Grief, Homophobia, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Outing, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Abortion

Minor: Xenophobia

hannahpeterson's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Misogyny, Sexism, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Biphobia, Death, Outing, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Cancer, Racism, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

aino_maria23's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Car accident, Biphobia, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcoholism, Cancer, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Pregnancy, Drug use, Abortion, and Outing

consistentlyinconsistent's review

challenging emotional 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

Minor: Abortion, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Grief, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Rape, Lesbophobia, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

river_dithers's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

I approached this book tentatively,  because of the implied heterosexual plotline - I had assumed that the LGBT tag was perhaps mistaken. I was delighted to be wrong though. The end of the book was quite dark and occasionally the movement of the plot seemed too complex for the amount of words allocated to it. However, I really enjoyed learning about Evelyn and Celia, and the movie-star world. I would definitely read it again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, Grief, Outing, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Child death, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts