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I don't think I'd recommend this one; I just didn't care for the overall storyline and wasn't moved or touched. It was a quick and easy read but a little too scandalous for my liking. Maybe this author isn't for me?
Evelyn Hugo is a Hollywood Icon and has been for most of her life. In her older age she has chosen Monique Grant to write biography of her life including her seven husbands, her friendships, her secrets and her greatest love.
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Evelyn Hugo is a Hollywood Icon and has been for most of her life. In her older age she has chosen Monique Grant to write biography of her life including her seven husbands, her friendships, her secrets and her greatest love.
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Celebrity, identity, ethics, and sacrifice are the all encompassing ideas that drew my fascination with this story. The characters were nuanced and a bit unlikeable, yet sympathetic to a point.
This is not a book that will have you walking away feeling warm and fuzzy. It is a story that opens the door to look at how celebrity is engrained into American culture, and how harmful it can be to the stars, as well as the audiences that adore them one moment and condemn them the next.
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This is not a book that will have you walking away feeling warm and fuzzy. It is a story that opens the door to look at how celebrity is engrained into American culture, and how harmful it can be to the stars, as well as the audiences that adore them one moment and condemn them the next.
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I didn’t love this book as much as everyone else did…I actually loved Malibu Rising a lot more. I started this book a long time ago and would put it down and read a little more eventually, and then keep doing it. I’m not sure why. The story is good. I think I didn’t like Evelyn very much, even from the beginning. But after finishing the book, I can’t help but think that’s what the author wanted us to feel. Evelyn was deeply flawed, like all of us. I think that even though this wasn’t a five star
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3.5-3.75 stars
This was pretty good, nice twist I didn’t see coming but it could have proved its point with less husbands.
This was pretty good, nice twist I didn’t see coming but it could have proved its point with less husbands.
Nov 21, 2017
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