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A review by soulofsam
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5.0
This book has everything I love: Hollywood, history and gays.
And it's brilliantly written. I think it takes guts to write a book with a main character that doesn't want to be liked. Most books work by making ou like the main character or relate to the, but Evelyn Hugo is honest. She's honest on the best and the worst moments, on the dirty secrets and she isn't sorry for it, but that makes this book so fascinating and unique. It's a book that doesn't do black and white or good and bad, it's a book that tells you "this happened and I can't take it back so I won't regret it". It's about the pains and joys of life, about the ups and downs and how sometimes to have good things you have to do or go through bad things. I enjoyed it so much because it wasn't all beautiful, how Hollywood is often viewed, but rather showed all the dark and dirty secrets and the shit that (probably still) goes on and how there is a side to fame we like to ignore.
The only thing that in my opinion didn't work out was the final reveal, because I didn't feel for Monique in any way. While it was the initial big question, I didn't end up caring for her connection to Evelyn or the big secret about her father. As the reader I wasn't given enough time with Monique to care for her or feel with her when she finally understood why her, I logically could understand her anger at Evelyn, but I didn't feel it.
This is a read that will make you feel things. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry and it will make you think.
And it's brilliantly written. I think it takes guts to write a book with a main character that doesn't want to be liked. Most books work by making ou like the main character or relate to the, but Evelyn Hugo is honest. She's honest on the best and the worst moments, on the dirty secrets and she isn't sorry for it, but that makes this book so fascinating and unique. It's a book that doesn't do black and white or good and bad, it's a book that tells you "this happened and I can't take it back so I won't regret it". It's about the pains and joys of life, about the ups and downs and how sometimes to have good things you have to do or go through bad things. I enjoyed it so much because it wasn't all beautiful, how Hollywood is often viewed, but rather showed all the dark and dirty secrets and the shit that (probably still) goes on and how there is a side to fame we like to ignore.
The only thing that in my opinion didn't work out was the final reveal, because I didn't feel for Monique in any way. While it was the initial big question, I didn't end up caring for her connection to Evelyn or the big secret about her father. As the reader I wasn't given enough time with Monique to care for her or feel with her when she finally understood why her, I logically could understand her anger at Evelyn, but I didn't feel it.
This is a read that will make you feel things. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry and it will make you think.