Once Upon A Broken Heart: Hodderscape Vault

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He gives her a bargain, he will stop the wedding if Evangeline kisses three people of his choosing.

He was still indescribably breathtaking, but it was all the tragic beauty of a sky where every single star was falling.” i want you, evangeline fox. i want to write ballads for you on the walls of wolf hall and carve your name on my heart with swords. i want you to be my wife and my princess and my queen." i believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. every story has the potential for infinite endings.' Again, just like with Caraval, this book was written brilliantly. This author has such a way with words, her writing style is IDEAL for writing fantasy! I didn't really find much quote-worthy material, but every separate sentence had a beautiful athmospheric structure.you don’t want to be the hero, you want the happy ending - that’s why you came to me. If you do this, that will never happen. Heroes don’t get the happy endings. They give them to other people. Is that what you really want?” Enchanting and mysterious’ Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn the mystery was so intruiging. i didn’t expect for apollo’s brother to be the one to poison apollo and the fact that he’s still alive?? just wow. there also wasn’t much world building for this book given that it takes place in the same universe as caraval. although i did enjoy caraval, i appreciate the fact that she didn’t build up the world like caraval. this helped differentiate the world despite the fact that it takes place in the same universe.

Enchanting, intriguing, and delightfully whimsical’ Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of the Cursebreaker Series This was staggeringly magnificent, and right now I'm daydreaming about all the ways I can kindly threaten ask the author for an ARC for a book that doesn't exist yet. All stories are made of both truths and lies, she used to say. What matters is the way we believe them.”The Fates weren't dangerous because they were evil; the Fates were dangerous because they couldn't tell the difference between evil and good.” I felt loved, hated, tearful, frustrated, blessed, infatuated, obsessed, sad, angry and if I had all the time in the world (let's face it, even if I did, I would be all, THIS BOOK WAS IUGFCDXERFTGYHUIJKJNHBGVFCDXERTFGYHUJI. The sacred language of fangirling everywhere)I could explain all of those emotions one by one. Alas, I do not have enough time, nor the necessary brain cells to bestow upon my charcoal masked face the ability to express myself with something akin to intelligence. OH MY GAWD, OH MY GOODNESS, BLOODY HEARTS ON A SCREWDRIVER. WHAT IS HAPPENING, AHH, IT HURTS. MY HEART, WHERE IS IT?? GFTFGYIHUOBYVGFCDXSZREDTGYUHJN I CANNOT CONTINUE WITH LIFE. I GIVE UP. I CAN'T NO MO-

Evangeline Fox was raised in her beloved father’s curiosity shop, where she grew up on legends about immortals, like the tragic Prince of Hearts. She knows his powers are mythic, his kiss is worth dying for, and that bargains with him rarely end well. I know, I know, I sound half-insane- but get this, I haven't stopped thinking about this book for about three days. I need to get all the creepy and crazy Booksy out of my system. And with that, let's continue All The Ways Booksy Can Fangirl Without Giving The Neighbors Pure Nosebleeds Because Of The High Celine Dion Notes. Bruh, nuh-uh. I can stand you being all whiny because of Luc, I truly understood half of what you were feeling. But you were expecting a PRINCE, to fall for you, (and no, I don't mean Prince of Hearts) just because of a kiss? Technically he did, but that's not what I mean- Do I believe she could've been a smarter, better MC? Absolutely. However, she was actually pretty nice at times and I liked her for the majority of the story. Yes, I'm aware I contradicted myself. It's part of my charm, *snort*. The book’s plot follows no clear structure; it’s all over the place. Sure, there’s a little bit of “action” but that does nothing to redeem a story that is 99% Boring and 1% Interesting Scenes. There were numerous attempts at romantic scenes throughout the book, but Evangeline has no real chemistry with either of her potential love interests (one of them is literally cursed to be in love with her, so there’s that), so it did nothing for me and I skimmed read most of them. I can separate this book into two parts: Before Evangeline Drinks the Poison and After Evangeline Drinks the Poison. I enjoyed the Before part, as After Evangeline Drinks the Poison is where Stephanie Garber seems to have forgotten the novel she promised to readers, and began writing something else entirely. Ergo, the plot had gone haywire.

marisol i hate you kys- her act didn't fool me at all she's fake inside & out just like her snake of a mother I loved the writing so much. Despite of not liking Caraval as much as I would've loved to, I did like the writing because somehow it felt magical. I really loved the soft descriptions of places, feelings, colors, etc. this felt like a fresh start. i’ve always loved stephanie garber’s writing but it has definitely peaked after caraval. i was expecting so much from this book but overall it fell short for me. my flaws with caraval mainly stemmed from the repetition throughout the story but i didn’t find it to be annoying in this book! considering how hyped up this series is, i’m definitely continuing and preparing myself to get my heart broken by the next book. this book wasnt a bad start to the series so im definitely excited to see how it continues.

It was written in third person (which I usually hate) and in this case it actually worked perfectly to give the nuance the author was going for. If you haven't gotten tired, you could continue reading for more fangirling bouts and insanity talk! As a ‘minor’ complaint, a lot is told to readers and not shown. For instance, after Evangeline has just woken up from being poisoned, she is told of a Week of Terrors that unfolded after the cancelled wedding, but we’re not given any information about it. Later, through dialogue, Evangeline learns of information she needs to know to progress the plot, but it’s done in quite a heavy-handed manner. There’s a lot of it, and wasn’t done subtlety or in small pieces, like you might see elsewhere in other novels.

I'll never comprehend humans.” Poison sighed. “All of you seem to welcome our lies, but you never like it when we tell the truth.”