On the night of their famous end of summer party the four Riva children would seem to the outside world to have it all. Nina, the oldest, is a famous model living in a cliffside mansion bought by her tennis-star husband. Jay Riva is a champion surfer frequently on magazine covers in photos taken by his half-brother Hudson, while youngest child Kit is still in college and a promising surfer in her own right. But as they spend the day of August 27, 1983 preparing […]

I have heard about this book for the past couple of years. I wanted to go back to read it because outside of Daisy Jones and the Six (audio version) I haven’t been able to get into Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books that much. I think my main problem is that with a lot of her work, when she’s writing about people of color, it just feels off in a way. I also thought that the greatest love of Evelyn’s life was self absorbed and manipulative. […]

God I love this book! I think I’ve loved everything I’ve read from Taylor Jenkins Reid. I’m in the middle of Malibu Rising, and it has yet to disappoint. Anyway, back to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn Hugo is Old Hollywood royalty, a la Elizabeth Taylor. And she’s plucked a young writer, Monique Grant, out of relative obscurity to write her biography which is sure to sell millions of copies and launch her career to the stratosphere. Monique just has to wait to publish her […]