The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by TJR

 Okay! It's been a few days and I've thought about this book some. 

I don't know about you guys, but when I read a book that is so so good that no other book could come close to, it puts me in a slump! And that's what happened with this book.

The plot was very well written and it felt like you were sitting in Evelyn's office, hearing her story, feeling her passion and pain. Some say that Evelyn, perhaps, was unlikeable for some of her decisions but I think that it's important to remember the setting is like 1940s/50s... women weren't expected to be great and men stifled them when they could. I don't think that's too much of a spoiler lol. For her time, Evelyn would've been an extremely important role model for young women. 

This book was unique in many ways to me. It draws you in. An important part of the book was the little reporting blurbs from one, or sometimes multiple popular magazines. It shows how people are feeling about her outside of her lovers and helps you understand what the public think is going on.

I obviously marked this as favorites. It was a 5 star read for me. I happened to do this as a buddy read and although I didn't regret it (I love buddy reading Julietta), it was hard to stay where we said we would read... she knows I finished before our timeline haha. You will not be able to put this book down.

Favorite Quotes

“You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

here, Monique. You can see that, right?”

“Of course.”

“So do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear.

I know what it feels like to not want your father to look at you too

closely, lest he decides he hates you and hits you or decides he loves

you a little too much.

But I liked that when someone asked her if

she was Jewish, she said, “I’m half Jewish.” No one else I knew was

half something.

For so long, I felt like two halves...

I don’t look like I am half of one thing and half

of another but rather one whole thing, theirs. Loved.

People think that intimacy is about sex.

But intimacy is about truth.

But I was tiring of him. What’s that saying? Behind every

gorgeous woman, there’s a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works

both ways. No one mentions that part.

He’s going to find an excuse to hit me later. But it will

be for this.

“Heartbreak is loss. Divorce is a piece of

paper.”

“It’s not wrong,” Celia said. “It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How

can it be wrong?”

“Evelyn, if you have sex with women, you are a lesbian. Don’t be a

self-hating lesbian. That’s not . . . that’s not becoming.”

And with that, I leave you <3