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

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

Spoilers!

This was incredible. A style of writing and a genre that I’ve never read before – this doesn’t even fit into the same categories as any other book I've ever read.

It was just astoundingly written and executed. 

I called it that Evelyn’d like girls, having had seven husbands. I thought she’d ask Monique to euthanise her, as Monique had written about assisted suicide, so I assumed foreshadowing. In retrospect it was much more fitting as an implied suicide at the end. 

Evelyn was an absolute queen. Savage and ruthless with limited empathy and such power yet her character was not unlikable. 

What an amazing book. It feels like Evelyn exists in the real world right this second. (Or it did until she died.)

‘You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, ‘It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.’