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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Start date: August 1, 2023

Finish date: August 31, 2023

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Jul 11, 2021 Amber Lea rated it really liked it

Shelves: bookclub, fiction

I don't know that there's much I could say about this that hasn't already been said.

It's got the best bi representation I've ever seen, which isn't saying much, but it does a really good job with the subject and I wouldn't change a thing. 10/10.

I also really like the way it handles the idea of celebrity and figuring out what really matters. I love stories about people figuring their lives out and this one is pretty good. I do kinda feel like the first fourth of the book is trying to throw you of ...more

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Feb 11, 2022 Melanie rated it it was amazing

"Evelyn Hugo is one of the biggest movie stars of all time. She doesn’t even have to have something to say for people to listen"

A fun book and a very easy read! I enjoyed reading about the glam and glitz of "Old Hollywood" as well as the unpleasantries of it. The author does a good job of filling the world with life and has such diverse characters from different nationalities, races, and sexual orientations.

We get to see Evelyn's rise to fame and all the secret struggles she had to deal with; a ...more

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Jul 07, 2019 Indira Giovany rated it liked it

Shelves: owned

Morality, like many things in life, is not black and white. And so is Evelyn's.

"No one is all good or all bad. I know this, of course. I had to learn it at a young age. But sometimes it’s easy to forget just how true it is. That it applies to everyone."

A story span for decades following from Evelyn's first home in Hell's Kitchen well into LA, NY, Spain and back to NY. One by one the story of Evelyn's seven husbands unraveled, and soon enough we will find who is the true love of her life and what ...more

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Jan 30, 2022 Readerjen rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, book-club

Days after finishing this book I was still thinking about the role of perception in the job of celebrity. I appreciate how incredibly flawed we all are, but how quick we are to not accept this flaws in people we place on pedestals.

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