The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”

The way Evelyn is having so much fun with this, the way she seems to delight in shocking me, lets me know that this is, at least a little bit, a power play. She likes to be cavalier about things that would change other people’s lives. Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?