Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) in taylor swift songs and reading at centennial park <3

Feb 14, 2025 Ri ♡ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2025-books, fantasy-romantasy, can-reread-over-and-over-again, favourite-women-who-rule-my-heart, paper-ring-book-boyfriends, giggles-and-cuddles, my-roman-empire, favourites, comfort-reads

5 ‘magnificent’ stars

“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings.”

Stephanie’s extraordinary ability to craft an ethereally enchanting world never ceases to impress me. Her stories read like fairytales to me—ones that leave me with an incessant longing to immerse myself in her bewitching universe. This was my second time embarking on an adventurous and magnificent journey to a world full of mysteries, potions, ...more

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Jan 10, 2023 talia ♡ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-magic-sci-fi-bitch, owned, releases-2020, ya-lit, in-a-series, 3-stars

second time around was better but i'm still skeptical

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literally nobody look at me as i try desperately to give this book a second chance

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you guys canNOT be fr with this one

look, i get that this is a YA series and maybe i am growing out of YA (although i still read + enjoy it from time to time) but i swear, this read as if it was written for middle grade. the writing is genuinely some "cow jumped over the moon" type sh*t—incredibly plain, uninteresting, and deeply juvenile.

i am ...more

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Feb 16, 2023 elena ✧˖° rated it really liked it

Shelves: love-triangle, why-didnt-i-read-this-sooner, fantasy, to-buy, romance, on-the-edge-of-my-seat, surprised-i-didnt-hate-it, slow-burn, should-be-a-movie, very-morally-gray

edit 9.1.23 - even better the second time

4.25 stars | cawpile 8.4

initial thoughts:
- i REALLY enjoyed this book
- i haven’t read the Caravel series (ik sue me, i’m sorry)
- ik there was a lot of references i didn’t catch BUT IT WAS STILL SO GOOD!
- i didn’t love the ending, but that’s fine—i’m still so hyped for the second one
- AHHHH JACKS IS SO FREAKING HOTT
- i’m just livingg for these magic vibes😍
- the mystery was 🤌
- the narrator was incredible—she really brought the story to life
- the kissing-not ...more

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Jan 14, 2022 tiffany rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-stars, ya-fantasy, 2022, betrayal, fairy-tales, adventure

shaking, crying, screaming, & throwing up after reading this. ik this will be in my top 10 for 2022 & we r two weeks in <3

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Oct 09, 2022 Arleyne rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites-almost

4.5*

this got me out of my 1 year long fantasy reading slump! I honestly didn't expect it to be this good. I should have of course, simply because of Jacks. I love him so much. I hope we get to see his tortured side a little more in the next book.

I liked that you could never really know where it was going with this book. Some parts of the ending were a little predictable but I didn't mind it that much. And if I did the last plot twist made up for that.
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Nov 25, 2022 allie rated it liked it

i haven't read caraval, but i think i may HAVE to after this book!
i really enjoyed this!
i loved jacks and evangeline and even apollo
i know he was (view spoiler) but i wouldn't mind someone serenading me every night, like w H a T ?
i loved jacks and little fox i just wanted them to kiss but i also didn't want her to (view spoiler) so that kinda sucked
the whole thing with marisol and her mother reminded me of a super twisted version of cinderella and mar ...more

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