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“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Earlier this year, Taylor Jenkins Reid published Daisy Jones and the Six, which has generally been very well received critically and keeps popping up on “Must read” lists. In several review of that book, I saw this, Jenkins Reid’s previous release, from 2017, highly recommended. Several people who were so-so on Daisy Jones and the Six claimed to prefer The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and as movie stars seemed more intriguing to me than rock stars, I decided to give it a try. There are multiple narratives in this book.There’s the framing story of magazine journalist Monique Grant who is pretty much hand […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

A merely OK book made much better by the voice cast

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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From Goodreads: Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do […]

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9/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

And maybe that’s ok.

Maybe in Another LIfe by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Another Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, and I’ve started seeing some cracks in the formula. One thing that Reid likes in her novels are those irrevocable choices and how they might split narratives based on which path was taken. This book takes that idea and runs with it. Hannah is back in town, recently out of a relationship with a married man, and testing the waters on her second night with her high school boyfriend. The novel splits on two fronts: she goes with him or she doesn’t. When she chooses not to go with him, she gets hit by a […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:529 |

But no one else seemed to want to vomit around her.

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid finds our narrator and protagonist in entirely unique, but oddly familiar situation. As in After I Do, we find our narrator facing down the most important decision of her life. After years and years of love and marriage, she has to decide whether or not the things she once wanted are what she still wants, now asked to decide again, in her her thirties. That’s the familiar part. The unique part is that Emma is engaged to Sam, who she knew as a teenage and who went out of her life for more than […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:527 |

I don’t respond.

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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A very solid and entertaining novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, of Daisy Jones and the Six recent acclaim. This novel is about a married couple, eleven years into their relationship having met in college, and about 5 or 6 years into their marriage, in a rut. The novel begins with a fight or tense dispute in the Dodgers parking lot that leads to eventual breakdown in their communication and their trust for one another. But the novel takes a long detour into the full body of the relationship, beginning with the energetic and enthusiasm courtship, the loving development of their […]

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8/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:493 |

Kissing Books!

Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

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Kissing books with varying degrees of actual kissing (Ayesha At Last might be the most chaste book I’ve read all year, but it’s still very romantic). Ordered vaguely from least favorite to most. (3 stars) Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid I’m always on the lookout for new Taylor Jenkins Reid, and after I finished Daisy Jones I had a definite hankering. Luckily, Reid published a story I’d never come across before, and it was available free through Amazon. Unfortunately, it was a short story and not terribly satisfying. “It is as if I have lived with a hard […]

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8/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:153 |

One of My Favorite Books of the Year

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This novel had been on my radar and TBR list ever since narfna’s review over a year ago.  I didn’t end up reading it till this past May because I was on a fantasy kick and wasn’t sure if I was in the mood for something more straightforward.  However, I finally hit the point where I needed to switch it up so my reading has been a bit more varied this year. I met a good friend of mine for coffee shortly after reading this one, one of my few in real life friends that shares my love for reading, […]

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8/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

An excellent beach read

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Bingo Square: Summer Read Emma Blair is madly in love with her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They spend years after graduation travelling the world, both together and for their jobs, and love every minute of it. They’ve escaped their home town and love the freedom that brings. Then, on their one year wedding anniversary, the helicopter Jesse is on goes missing over the Pacific. Emma is devastated. She slowly puts her life back together, returning to the hometown she had fled from and the humdrum life she never wanted. But it turns out that maybe she did want to run […]

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8/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |


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