This book was amazing. I came into this book expecting an entertaining story about the life of a Golden Age Hollywood starlet akin to a Marylin Monroe biopic and what I got was a layered complex tale of a morally ambiguous bisexual cuban women

Tara Jenkins Reid managed to create such a compelling character with Evelyn Hugo, someone who I admire for her courageous drive to take what she wanted no matter what was standing in her way and who unapologetically did some horrible things for herself and her family. Evelyn is probably my favorite character of the year

This book has so much to unpack with its themes. It heavily explores the sexuality of Every and what it means to her being a bisexual women. The sexualization of Evelyn’s body is also discussed in great detail and how she saw herself and how others saw her body. The struggle of indentity in prevalent in this book on so many different level.

This book was also just very entertaining. Once Evelyn starts recounting her life you get hooked in to the various dramas that allow in Evelyn’s life. Every moment in the book is gripping, hilarious, heartbreaking or tooth-rottingly sweet and Jenkins manages to balances the various changes in tone excellently.

I know this review is short but there’s only so much gushing I can put in one review. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is an amazing book, it has so much to offer a reader and I would recommend it to everyone.