{"id":471,"date":"2018-10-22T00:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-10-22T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:33:41","slug":"seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/10\/22\/seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genre: Women’s fiction. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 4.25.\u00a0\u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 4.<\/p>\n

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<\/em><\/a> is indeed a very entertaining read. There\u2019s really no place in a book where you’d want to take a break and do something else instead of reading. You just want to read the whole book in one sitting even though it\u2019s too long for that.<\/p>\n

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo\u00a0<\/em>is a story about an ageing Hollywood actress who’s finally revealing her secrets.<\/p>\n

Evelyn herself is absolutely amazing. She\u2019s so charming. She makes you smile. She makes you like her. Even though she\u2019s a character, she acts and sounds alive and real. Her dresses are always gorgeous. If there\u2019s ever a movie adaptation I will watch it just to see all this beauty again on the screen.<\/p>\n

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There are a few moments I didn’t like though. It feels awkward to be criticising something I actually enjoyed but I can\u2019t pretend those moments didn\u2019t happen. So here they are.<\/p>\n

The strongest side of Evelyn Hugo<\/h4>\n

Evelyn has so much potential. She\u2019s witty, wise and talented. Nevertheless, according to the book her main assets are her boobs.\u00a0 I almost feel offended on her behalf.<\/p>\n

Communication glitches of Evelyn Hugo<\/h4>\n

Some interactions between characters are plainly implausible. I don\u2019t mean impossible. The are unrealistic. Here\u2019s an example to illustrate what I mean. A couple is discussing their possible divorce while watching their beloved daughter play. They mention the implications a divorce would have on their work, their public image, other practicalities. Not once do they mention how it will affect their beloved daughter (who\u2019s playing in front of them!) How is this possible? Either the daughter is a piece of furniture (which the book insists is not the case) or something doesn\u2019t work with the storytelling. In fact, if you remove the adored daughter from the book completely, nothing at all will change in the plot.<\/p>\n

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Timeframes in the book<\/h4>\n

The time frames are simply announced by a character every time. There\u2019s no feeling of the time passing by. You just read about a few scenes and then you are informed that actually 15 years passed while you were reading them.<\/p>\n

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Terminology<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s a minor thing, but it was repeated several times so it is noticeable that a character calls her grief \u201cthe devastating luxury of panic\u201d. To me it doesn’t sound like an extravagant or sophisticated choice of words but rather like the character doesn’t know proper words for her feelings.<\/p>\n

On a positive note<\/h4>\n

I did love the end of the book! I was preparing myself for something way more simple than that. There was a great twist and an awesome finale as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m giving the book four stars and I will\u00a0be recommending it to people because it\u2019s beautiful and fast-paced, and it entertains really well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very entertaining and beautiful book that I generally liked but still very much disliked at some places. Continue reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[125,244,463,501,521,522,523,561,680],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}