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Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Summary:

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?

Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn’s life unfolds—revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love—Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn’s story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.

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Review (containing spoilers):

Short tags: poc MC, poc wlw MC, wlw SC, 2 mlm SC’s (also character deaths in general)

Rating: 6/5

[Review on Goodreads]

This book made me cry. Hell, I’m surprised I’m not still crying while writing this Review. And I don’t just mean tearing up. I mean full on ugly sobbing with thick tears that made me fear I’d drench my poor paperback.

This book shook me. This book made me feel. This book made me ache. This book broke my heart. This book made me think.

This book is a masterpiece. This book is everything.

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[image description: the cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid with a quotation from the book:  “Evelyn Hugo doesn’t care if everyone forgets she was ever alive.”]