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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

My Sister Hated It

July 24, 2017 by G.D. Giant Leave a Comment

My sister hated The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.  I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either.  I think I wanted more, or, maybe, I just wanted it to be better. It glosses over a lot of Evelyn’s relationships and especially with the relationship that Evelyn claimed was the most important. I also had the same problem with it that I had with All the Stars in the Heavens in that, reading this book from the mindset of someone not living in those […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Beards, bisexual character, Golden Age of Hollywood, historical fiction, Hollywood, homosexuality, lesbian romance, Old Hollywood Glamour, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

G.D. Giant's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Beards, bisexual character, Golden Age of Hollywood, historical fiction, Hollywood, homosexuality, lesbian romance, Old Hollywood Glamour, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ·
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