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

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' is a historical fiction of a girl's rise to fame in Hollywood. Born Evelyn Elena Herrera in 1938, the daughter of Cuban immigrants, Hugo grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Having experienced poverty, she lost her mother at a very young age and grew up with an ignorant father. She was beautiful in her teens and thus got to play roles in Hollywood. Soon she would go changing husbands to husbands to rise to fame but only a few know the real story behind her.  A heartbreaking story about love, loss and sacrifices, The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo is my most beautiful read of 2021.

Semi Detailed Plot : Evelyn is bisexual. She is and has been in love with her costar  Celia St. James her whole life. The community those days were not open to this and she feared she would loose her fame. Evelyn got married 7 times, a few times in love and the rest were an arrangement. The best "arrangement" being Harry Cameron, her producer and best friend who was gay. They decided to get married because Harry was in love with John. And John Braverman was married to Celia. The four of them lived together for long in the same street and spent their days with utmost happiness until when Evelyn decided to do a "bold" shoot for a movie without asking Celia. Things went downhill then and the story turned sadder. What followed was heartbreaks, tears and a couple of death.

"Because our whole is greater than the sum of our parts"

"I love you too much to let you live only for me"

"You're the only thing on this planet worth worshipping."