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Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)

Stephanie Garber

Start date: January 1, 2023

Finish date: January 31, 2023

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What Members Thought

Oct 09, 2021 Laura ☾ rated it really liked it

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Nov 14, 2021 Ashley W rated it really liked it

Shelves: 0part-of-a-series, genre-fantasy, 401-500-pages, back-burnered-or-next

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I will never not love this story. I think it's the whimsy of it, a novel length fairy tale. The mini dragons, the budding romance, the danger with the stakes that aren't too stressful. It's just magical and romantic and fantastical.

Admittedly, reading about Jacks hung up on Tella (who I already don't like) takes away from the romance between him and Eva for me. I just don't like a love story where the MMC wants another girl. It would be the same with Eva and Luk but she really doesn' ...more

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Jan 21, 2022 Brittany rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, read-2022, fantasy, young-adult

4.5 stars. I actually loved this.

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”

I loved seeing all the little tie ins between this and the original series and that this one started a little before that one ended. Getting to explore the North was so neat and I want more! The idea of little dragons who heat food and things was just so cool.
I also loved Evangeline more than I expected. She believes in love and hope and yes she is a little naïve but she grows a ton during this book ...more

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Sep 29, 2021 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, fantasy, look-at-the-pretty-cover, romance, young-adult, 2021, read-on-my-kindle, completed-series, 3-stars

3 stars. This takes place in the same world as the Caraval series and is set after the end of the last book in that trilogy. I found this to be a very solid start to this new series especially with Jacks being one of the main characters. He’s such a grumpy boy and I really like him and all of his moodiness. The heroine here, Evangeline, was fine. She’s a bit too naive for my tastes but I can see potential in her to really grow into her own as the series progresses.

The plot was fun and paced wel ...more

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