The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid -- Restarting May 1st 2024

[Natalia]

9%
(view spoiler)[ can't say much about the plot so far, but I liked the format, with the press articles and the comments, I hope there'll be more of that.
Evelyn is an interesting person. She seems nice and down to earth but at the same time, once you say something she didn't like, she's not hiding it. And I'm curious why she picked Monique. (hide spoiler)]

[— Massiel]

finished - (view spoiler)[This book was so wholesome but painful at the same time I totally loved it. I neither like or hate Evelyn for me she is just human, she makes mistakes but also go for everything because she wants. I didn't expect Monique's father was Harry's lover but it was like coming clean when that moment happened.

I'm so glad Celia and Evelyn ended up together even when they lost so many time, Harry's dead was so painful and Connor's too. This book leaves me speechless but is also kinda addictive. Can't wait to read more of this author. (hide spoiler)]

[— Massiel]

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(view spoiler)[I liked that format too it gives like clues but at the same time is full of lies, it just shows you want you want to see not the reality. (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

36%
(view spoiler)[ Okay, Evelyn is not an angel, she's been doing whatever she wanted to get what she wanted and didn't really care about anything (look: her first marriage), but I'm still so mad at Don and at Sunset and at everyone who treated her like sh*t after that break up. But it also shows how little were women worth back then. Ugh I'm angry.
Now on to the next husband I guess? (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

44%
(view spoiler)[ I hate seeing Evelyn and Celia talking about their future when we already know that they never got to make it official. I'm sobbing... (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

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(view spoiler)[ Yes, later on you can see how full of lies the medias are. But it also gives us good sight of how Evelyn was perceived by the public back in 50's or 60's. (hide spoiler)]

[— Massiel]

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@Natalia: I loved that!

[— Massiel]

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(view spoiler)[I know 😭 It was so painful but at the same time so wholesome too. (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

62%
(view spoiler)[ Oh my God they're having a baby! I wonder how they'll raise it being basically two homosexual couples mixed together. Will the baby know?
They're all seem so cute and happy and knowing that there'll be two more husbands, I'm scared to see what's going to happen to Harry... (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

78%
(view spoiler)[ Oh my, Max gives off such a crazy fan/stalker vibe. I cringed every time he said Evelyn Hugo instead of just Evelyn. And I felt that something was wrong with him from the beginning, when he told her that he loved her for years, but I didn't know it would be that bad... (hide spoiler)]

[Natalia]

Finished
(view spoiler)[ Do you ever just... Get sad after finishing a book because you realise that the story is over and it won't ever come back, and because it's just fiction and you can't do more research on the characters because it's not real? I feel like this right now. I want to know more about Evelyn. More facts of her life. Watch her movies. Read interviews. I want her to be real. Although... She does feel real. I know that it's literary fiction but I very much feel like it's based on facts in SOME PARTS and it shows us what this big world is really like inside. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

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[Tayane]

16% (before starting the Don Adler part)

(view spoiler)[ I'm already curious to know everything that happened to Evelyn. It's so sad to see what so many girls had to do (and still do these days) to get a chance in Hollywood, it's such a filthy industry ruled by white straight men and their ego. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Chapter 10
(view spoiler)[The story is already really complicated and interesting. I knew the movie industry wasn't simple but I didn't realize how messed up it is. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

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(view spoiler)[Yeah its so messed up. The worst part is that it is probably still like this to this day. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Chapter 33
(view spoiler)[Awww I was hoping they would be happy together. Dang five years is a long time. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Chapter 58
(view spoiler)[I am really hooked in the story so far. I want to know how Monique connects to all of this. I can't come up with even one good theory about how she fits in. Maybe something to do with her husband or dad? (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Chapter 64
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[Tayane]

39% (before the Mick River part)

(view spoiler)[ Don is the typical man that shows himself as something, but in the inside is completely different. It really hurted me when she said he started hitting her, but I'm happy she was able to leave him. If things are hard for women nowadays, in that time it was so much worse, being focused on your career and not being submissive was considered shameful. I wonder if her relationship with Celia evolved somehow. And I need to know why Monique is so important to her. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

@Shreya the book doesn't really have chapters (at least in the edition I'm reading) so I don't know if I can open your comments without getting spoilers xD I'm sorry, I'll try to answer them when I'm finished.

[Blue Butterfly]

Finished
I never thought to make the connection between the man Harry killed and Monique. I liked that the book she decides to write ends up having the same name as the book. Evelyn is such a complex character and very interesting.

[Blue Butterfly]

Tayane wrote: "@Shreya the book doesn't really have chapters (at least in the edition I'm reading) so I don't know if I can open your comments without getting spoilers xD I'm sorry, I'll try to answer them when I..."

Oh sorry about that. I was using the audiobook edition and it didn't say the chapters but they were on the sides so I went by that. I guess I should have realized that meant that the books didn't include the chapters.

[Blue Butterfly]

Tayane wrote: "39% (before the Mick River part)

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(view spoiler)[Yeah I am glad that she had friends like Harry who helped her and she was able to make it away from Don. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

58%

(view spoiler)[ It's crazy to see how many things she had to fake because of the media and a world that can't accept her for what she is and who she loves. I wish she could've had a happy ending with Celia. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

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(view spoiler)[ Yes, five years is a very long time. It's so sad to know this kind of situation doesn't happen only in fiction. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

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(view spoiler)[ I'm also curious to know how she connects with everything. The last chapter I read so far, she said that in one week Evelyn would finish telling her story and she would hate her. I think it might be something about her dad, but let's see. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

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(view spoiler)[Evelyn keeps saying that she is a bad person but honestly pretty much everything she has done has been justified in some way. Most of the time she is just struggling to do the best she could with what she has. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

70%

(view spoiler)[ It's really something to think about how an actor's partner must feel when they have to act on more intimate scenes or even just kissing scenes. I don't know, for working on the same field as Evelyn, maybe Celia could've been more understanding (because it was all an act), but I also understand why she felt that way, considering Don is Evelyn's ex-husband. Everything is so complicated! (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

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(view spoiler)[ Maybe the reason she calls herself a bad person is still going to happen, I don't know. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Tayane wrote: "70%

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(view spoiler)[Yeah it is something interesting to think about. This is probably something that is a problem for some actors when their significant other acts in these parts though most of the time they are actors as well so they understand that it is just for the show and doesn't really have any meaning. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

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Tell me if you think she is a bad person when you finish the book because (view spoiler)[I didn't really think she was that bad. She only did what she had to do in order to get by and help her career. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

Finished

(view spoiler)[ I understand why she thought she did something bad (it kind of was) and wanted to redeem herself somehow to Monique because of it - and Monique had all the right to be mad -, but after reading her whole life story, we know Evelyn was someone who would do anything for the ones she loved. As Monique says, she wasn't good nor bad, she was just a person who did what she thought was best to achieve her goals (and there are people who do much worse thing than she did, because most of her actions affected primarily herself). (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

Shreya wrote: "Finished
I never thought to make the connection between the man Harry killed and Monique. I liked that the book she decides to write ends up having the same name as the book. Evelyn is such a compl..."

(view spoiler)[ Oh, this crossed my mind after the accident, so when Evelyn confirmed it to Monique it wasn't necessarily surprising. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

Shreya wrote: "Tayane wrote: "Shreya wrote: "Tayane wrote: "Shreya wrote: "Chapter 58
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(view spoiler)[ She isn't a bad person, just a person who did something that can be considered bad, but with lots os positive sides to balance it. (hide spoiler)]

[Blue Butterfly]

Tayane wrote: "Finished

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(view spoiler)[I completely agree with you. She could have done much worse. I understand why Monique was mad at Evelyn but how much would her opinion of her dad really been changed. She would know that he hadn't drove a car drunk but she found find out that he has having an affair which would have probably been equally as hard to wrap her head around as a child. (hide spoiler)]

[Tayane]

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(view spoiler)[ I agree. But I think what hit her harder was that Evelyn just left her dad there, even though he was already dead. (hide spoiler)]

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[Dannii]

I'm so sorry I'm so late to this! Is anyone still reading it?

[Dannii]

First quarter - (view spoiler)[I'm already as enamoured with Eleanor as Monique is! She is so self-assured and graceful and I really like how she conducts herself. She is also such an enigma and I can't imagine being anything but a clumsy fool around her! She has such an interesting history and I'm eager to learn more about them. She has so far proved herself to care little for the men she uses to gain her place in Hollywood's history and yet, somehow, I don't dislike her for this? (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Second quarter - (view spoiler)[I expected this to be an interesting read but was not ready for how emotional it was!! Evelyn's first marriage was one of convenience, as have all the rest, but there has been much more heart involved in them too. Her love for Don was real and could have lasted a lifetime if he didn't turn out to be an abusive asshole! I was so glad to see her freed from her ties to him, even if it meant a few years of a decline in her fame.

Celia and Evelyn's relationship warmed my heart and it helped me to better understand the reason for her quickie marriage in Vegas. She did it to protect them both from public hatred. Obviously homophobia still exists but it is heartbreaking to read of how condemned LGBT+ individuals were in our very recent history.

I also really appreciate the conversation about definitions and how this excludes people exist outside of one carefully designed box. Monique is biracial and Evelyn is bisexual and close-minded society struggles to find a place for them because of it. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Third quarter - (view spoiler)[It might not be conventional, but I wish this little family of five could have continued to exist forever, although with more truth involved. There was so much genuine love and friendship there and Connor would have grown up surrounded by such love and acceptance. Evelyn might have felt like she ruined it with her sex scene with Don, but I struggle to see that. It was society who ruined it by not allowing them all to be true to themselves without fearing their condemnation. (hide spoiler)]

[Dannii]

Fourth quarter - (view spoiler)[SOBBING! This book captivated me throughout and I was so eager to see exactly how Monique fit into Evelyn's life. I had an inkling her father was the link between the two women but in no way could understand why.

Max proved to be just another despicable man. He loved the idea of Evelyn Hugo the movie star rather than who Evelyn really was, on a daily basis. It proved to be a lonely life being her, even when looking in she seemed to have everything anyone could desire. (hide spoiler)]

[Jenn]

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Date changed. Restarting June 1st 2021. Happy Reading ☺

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[*¨·٠•●♥✿LINLAN✿♥●•٠·¨*]

10% (Before 'Poor Ernie Diaz')

(view spoiler)[Just as I thought, Evelyn chose Monique to interview because of the story she wrong. I suspected that that story might hit close to her heart ... like related to her daughter somehow.

I think the person who Evelyn love the most is herself. Not everyone can do that ... I mean love themselves and it's a good quality to have in life. (hide spoiler)]

[Bayan]

I’m dying to read this!!! If I get to it before the 5th I’m defined joining here :3

[*¨·٠•●♥✿LINLAN✿♥●•٠·¨*]

Bayan wrote: "I’m dying to read this!!! If I get to it before the 5th I’m defined joining here :3"

I hope you can get the book before then so you can join us 😊

[*¨·٠•●♥✿LINLAN✿♥●•٠·¨*]

32% (view spoiler)[After reading nearly half of this book, one thing I know for sure is that I'll never survive Hollywood.

I'm so fascinated with the characters. They were not completely black and white but they fell perfectly in the grey area. That's the thing I love about Evelyn.

She used Ernie as a stepping stones for her career but I couldn't hate or judge her for that. Under any circumstances, people will always do what best for them. What do you think about this?

By the way, I was wrong. The love of Evelyn's life was Celine. Did you see that coming?

P.S. I can't wait to read the conclusion of Don and Evelyn' relationship. I'm sure that she'd definitely come out on top. (hide spoiler)]

[*¨·٠•●♥✿LINLAN✿♥●•٠·¨*]

47% (view spoiler)[My heart is breaking when I read this sentence 'It shouldn't be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?' I'm glad that I wasn't born in Evelyn's era. It must be so hard to live without the freedom to love whoever you want to. By the way, I don't think in the long run, Celine could still look past the thing Evelyn did to cover their news. (hide spoiler)]

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63% (view spoiler)[Marriage was a business to Evelyn: however, everything she did was also for Celine. I'm so glad that they were back together.

I think Evelyn and Harry's relationship might teach Monique something. (hide spoiler)]

[Bayan]

Tayane wrote: "16% (before starting the Don Adler part)

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I so agree and I especially feel for (view spoiler)[girls who like Evelyn feel like their bodies are sort of methods of getting things, I'm all for it with a partner or if that's what someone wants, but in her case it's like she is so sick of doing life that she will allow people to look and touch just to get herself somewhere better, I hope i'm explaining it like it is in my head because that makes me feel bad. (hide spoiler)]