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Book 64 (of 52) – Great Big Beautiful Life

Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry

Alice thinks she has it made, having tracked down the long-missing former tabloid princess from one of the most storied families of the 20th Century and pitched her on writing her version of her family’s scandalous past.  Instead, she finds herself in competition with Hayden, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Purdue alum who was invited down to the remote Georgia island to pitch the job as well.  While they both work on their separate pitches, they fall in love, knowing that this job could jeopardize their personal relationship.  And when Alice finds out the big secret that the heiress has been hiding, it does just that.

For the third year in a row, the Goodreads Choice winner for Favorite Romance has found its way onto my Kindle.  Emily Henry’s latest, Great Big Beautiful Life, isn’t your traditional romance novel, or at least not what I believe a traditional romance novel to be.  Its story shares some DNA with Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, where an aging protagonist looks back at her life story through her own lens while ostensibly working with a young author.  This is now the third entry from Henry that I have enjoyed, so I may need to consider looking into more of her back catalog going forward.

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Book 44 (of 52) – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

When Monique Grant, a junior magazine reporter is requested to interview the reclusive former movie star Evelyn Hugo, sha has no idea what she is getting into.  Rather than a feature about her recent charitable donations, Hugo wants to give her life story, a story of rising from a motherless young girl in Hell’s Kitchen to the darling of Hollywood.  They story behind her seven husbands and the true love of her life.  Even a shocking secret that will rock Monique to her core.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is now the fourth novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid that I’ve read in a little less than a year and a half.  Hugo, based in part on Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Rita Hayworth, is a complicated character, one forged by the lengths she had to go to in order to make it in Hollywood, was forced to hide her true self in order to become and stay famous, and one who used her privilege to her advantage with little regard as to who else it impacted.

This tale was also the start of the Reid’s interconnected universe, as husband number three. Mick Riva, would appear again in Daisy Jones and the Six and Malibu Rising, which itself introduced the star of Carrie Soto Is Back.  I’m not sure what is coming next, but I look forward to reading it.