REVIEW
“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”
Monique Grant doesn’t want to just be a regular journalist, she thrives to be more because she knows that she’s capable of doing it. So when the ever famous star, Evelyn Hugo, requested her specifically for an interview, questions of why cascaded inside her head.
Beautifully written and wonderfully paced, Taylor Jenkins Reid, yet again, amazed me in her capacity to create a story. Furthermore, I adore the choice of concept on how she unravels the possible reality that these showbiz personalities go through.
The foundation of the story, however, gets weak every chapter as each actions Evelyn take becomes predictable due to its repetitiveness. Her choices are the consequences of the situations she’s in (as most other people) and it makes it really simple to track down her next move given the events that she faces.
“I’ve either not been able to afford it or have been so rich someone would do it for me. Never anywhere in between.”
Moreover, despite Evelyn being the cover title, I was hoping that Monique would be given better story arc than the pitiful side-character stand-point that she had. This is considering that she is the opening chapter of the book and that she was the pivotal mark of the story. Without her, the interview would not have happened, yet it felt like she was just another plot device that was given a sorry background so she would not feel out of place in a story she, herself, created.
I enjoyed reading this book and unravelling all the intrigues that lies behind the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. But it felt as though the story bound itself somewhere in the hopes of completely distracting the reader. It was effective yet it did not distract me enough to overlook the neglect it gave some aspects of the story.
