From the Bookshelf of forever and evermore swifties…

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Start date: June 1, 2022

Finish date: July 1, 2022

Why we're reading this: This book is being compared to: the lucky one, the last great american dynasty, and dress.
[close] This book is being compared to: the lucky one, the last great american dynasty, and dress.

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Jan 03, 2025 ˋ✧*⁀➷ ʙᴇᴛᴛʏ (med school got me good) rated it really liked it

Shelves: unique-storyline, found-family, left-an-imprint, romance, lgbtq, forbidden, historical-and-classics, mental-heath-trauma-heartbreaking, adult-and-eroticas

i fucking hate this book! i hate evelyn hugo! i hate celia st. james! i hate all her seven husbands! i hate everyone NO ONE TALK TO ME

⛈️ Alexa play midnight rain by taylor swift:

My town was a wasteland
Full of cages, full of fences
Pageant queens and big pretenders
But for some, it was paradise
My boy was a montage
A slow-motion, love potion
Jumping off things in the ocean
I broke his heart 'cause he was nice
He was sunshine, I was midnight rain
He wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain
He wanted a bri ...more

153 likes · Like · see review

Jan 17, 2022 shik (victor vale’s version) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: some-of-my-faves-3

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. no, heartbreak is a loss, divorce is a piece of paper.

[real rating: 4.5/5]

so, this book is a LOT to unpack, so i believe i will go with it in the way i think is the most beneficial to my thought process; which is writing this review character-wise. i will skip over the first part of the book (poor ernie diaz), mostly because i found it incredibly hard to get through.

goddamn don adler. this chapter is the one that made me gain the most respect for evelyn. she faces her problems with such quick wi no, heartbreak is a loss, divorce is a piece of paper.

[real rating: 4.5/5]

so, this book is a LOT to unpack, so i believe i will go with it in the way i think is the most beneficial to my thought process; which is writing this review character-wise. i will skip over the first part of the book (poor ernie diaz), mostly because i found it incredibly hard to get through.

goddamn don adler. this chapter is the one that made me gain the most respect for evelyn. she faces her problems with such quick wit and thoughtfulness, that i immediately idolized her, kinning her ever so slightly. i will say that don adler can go to shit, and i think that the fact that evelyn (and by extension ruby) could only go on the record to say what he did, decades after it actually happened.

talented celia st james. celia is by far one of the best characters in this book (alongside harry and evelyn). she won my heart, even though she annoyed me at times (mostly when she tried to put evelyn in a box). i think her relationship with evelyn is beautiful and wonderous and magical. and i will *always* cherish the scene of their marriage.

brilliant, kindhearted, tortured; harry cameron. i will say it once and only once. i think harry is the character that i loved the most in this book. he was kind, loving, caring and the best father around. i genuinely cried when he died and probably felt the most pain during his death scene. i loved how he loved his work and threw himself into it. it was like appreciating something you could never be yourself.

icon, legend and the moment; evelyn hugo. this woman has so much respect on my end. i love her so much. i also kin her. the values she potrays (seeing the truth; however ugly and not being afraid to show the world she wasn't beyond using people to get what she wants) are values i personally agree with, and seeing her live this life undeniably makes me so happy. evelyn *means* something to me.

the twist ending. finally, the part that left so many broken. i predicted it. i will say that is a flex and a loss to have known what was gonna happen, because at one point i was waiting for this to come true (losing fun in parts of the ending) and also very proud of myself for predicting a plot point in a book for once. so i'm still kinda mixed on this ending.

i am evelyn hugo. and anyway, i think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife. ...more

12 likes · Like · see review

Jan 01, 2023 Emma ☆ rated it it was amazing

What. A. Masterpiece.

I literally can not even put into words how beautifully and well written this story is. It's so amazing, I don't think I ever will not be thinking about this book.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is my god. ...more

5 likes · Like · see review

Mar 13, 2022 rozalia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 22-top-10

już na samym początku wiedziałam, że to będzie 5 gwiazdek. nie ważne jaka była Evelyn, jaka była jej historia, co robiła a czego nie, sam STYL tej książki powodował, że chciałam czytać dalej i nie mogłam się oderwać. nigdy nie zapomnę o Evelyn Hugo i w mojej głowie ona żyła naprawde po prostu nie można niestety obejrzeć jej filmów:((CHYBA ŻADNEGO FILMU NIE CHCIAŁAM OBEJRZEC TAK BARDZO JAK MAŁE KOBIETKI Z EVELYN JAKO JO!! po skończeniu tej książki nie wiedziałam co mam ze sobą zrobić przez dobre ...more

4 likes · Like · see review

Mar 25, 2022 Sydney rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, romance, rivals-to-lovers, favourite-romance, forbidden-love, celebrity, secret-relationship, historical-fiction, sapphic, best-of-2022

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. to say that i loved this book would be an understatement.

evelyn hugo was such an interesting character to read about; i have to admit that i wasn’t that excited about reading it because i didn’t know how interesting i’d find it reading about her seven marriages. this book is so much more than just her marriages.

it shows her journey in hollywood and how much she had to compromise just to be successful. she had to change her surname to sound more white, dye her hair to look more white, and chang ...more

Like · see review

Jan 11, 2024 sofi ❀ rated it really liked it

4.5
At first, I wasn't enjoying the writing, I found Monique to be cringy and idk just wasn't a fan of the way Taylor wrote her character at first. I thought she came across as a very bland character and kind of stereotypical. As the story started acquiring more "rhythm" and "substance" I found myself enjoying when Monique had the chance to "speak" or tell the reader more about her life. As for Evelyn, I thought her character was beautifully written; her being a complex human being but simple at ...more

Like · see review

Mar 21, 2022 Charlotte rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: my-favorite-books

I love this book, I read it whenever I'm feeling down, and it cheers me right up again, then crushes my soul, then I reread. Its basically about the price of fame, and how Evelyn got to where she did, even if she didnt make a lot of choices. Its not like its the most well written book ever, but its really fun to read and good for when its a rainy day and you dont have the attention span for anything else. This book has a special place in my heart ♡ ...more

Like · see review