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SOOOO GOOOOD
 WOW JUST W O W

First I want to thank PRH International for giving me the chance to read this beautiful book in advance, I am so thankful for the opportunity!

I really enjoyed this book and you're going to love it as well if you like stories about mermaids, vengeful gods, quests and strong, beautiful characters! Reading this book felt like going on the journey with Simi the mermaid and Kola, the boy she saved from drowning.
I laughed and I cried while reading this book, it definitely made me feel a lot of things and that's how I know it was a good book.

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You're safe with me” - that's intimacy.”


Almost 400 pages book - read in one sitting. I can't even begin to describe the intensity and beauty of this book. It shocked me, it made me cry and it made me laugh, it made me want to throw it across the room and it made me want to hug it. That's Taylor Jenkins Reid for you. This author is a magician with an incredible talent, their writing style is absolutely amazing. I couldn't put the book down. And I, as a huge fantasy lover (that's what I read 90% of the time), wasn't expecting to fall so hard for this book. For Evelyn Hugo.

This book is exactly what the title says: the story of the beautiful actress Evelyn Hugo and her seven husbands. It follows Evelyn since she was a child, before she became Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn tells her story in such a beautiful way and I absolutely loved her. I loved the fact that she wasn't ashamed of what she'd done in order to get famous. She wasn't ashamed of the fact that she knew she was a bomb of a woman and she used that to climb the mountain of celebrity. She struggled, she fell, she got back up again. She never stopped.

Evelyn Hugo is a force of nature , I think that's the best way to describe her. Her story will make you weep and it will make you realize (if you didn't already know) how unfair the world is. There are a lot of touching subjects throughout the book: the struggle of being a black or LGBTQ+ (or both) person back in the day, in the 50's or 60's. Or even later, because things don't get better. They're not better now, in 2021, so we can only imagine how hard it was for people then.

I won't say anything more, I just want you to discover Evelyn's story yourselves. Trust me, you won't regret it. The hype is real for this book and it did not disappoint.

It took me years to finally pick up this series and I am glad that I did. I actually enjoyed the first book and I feel like this is one of those series where the books get better and better (hopefully). I am so excited for the next ones and to see where the story is going.

At the moment I am not a huge fan of either Lissa or Rose, I get that their are immature because let's be honest, they are in high school. I am very intrigued by Dimitri though and I can't wait to read more about him!

Gosh, this book took me so long to finish because I kept reading other books in between, but it was SO, SO painful. It made me cry A LOT. I mean... reading about Jem and Tessa, them talking about Will, reading abOUT TY AND KIT AND LIVVY AAAAAAAARGH
I need The Wicked Powers like RIGHT NOW