A review by figsx
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

5.0

I started this novel after I was in a reading jam and could not pick up a book to save my life. Idk what it was about the first couple pages of the novel, but I was HOOKED. I had no idea what the book entailed, other than the fact that Ms. Hugo had seven husbands. I liked the idea that this was written in a story-telling way from a different POV and included Monica's life and we were dealing with more than one person. As we went along with Evelyn's life story I became more and more intrigued and then I became upset and angry. I rooted along for Evelyn and Celia to just be together and forget about all the norms of society and just run away. But, the build up to their relationship and the downfalls were just impeccable. I fell in love along with Evelyn and then torn apart by the losses she experienced. I was so caught up in her story that I didn't question why she had chosen Monique as the person she had decided to tell her life story to, but then when the plot twist hits you, it hits you hard and where it hurts the most. The ending, in some sense, felt like poetic justice, but you have no choice but to mourn the losses as well as the hurt that Monique feels when she's told the truth.