Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1) in think later, read now ୨୧

Aug 04, 2025 Uswah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I absolutely would’ve done it already. 🥹🍎🦊

OMG, it felt SOOOO good to read about my babies again 🥹🥹 It’s like… I feel refreshed. Like I’m in a place surrounded by all my favorite things, and I’m just overwhelmingly happy 🥹🥹 Seriously, words can’t even describe how much I adore this trilogy. Re-reading the first book felt like taking a walk down memory lane, like I was talking to my past self—telling her not to be sad about a certain character or yellin ...more

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Nov 13, 2024 ari [elle’s vrsn 🩵] [semi ia] rated it really liked it

Shelves: reviewed, romantasy, secret-gardens-in-my-mind, ya, books-i-own, booktok-is-gonna-kill-me, 2024

3.8 ⭐

13+

romance: 5/10 (there was like one real kiss scene, a bit of innuenedo, the wedding night scene 😭 nothing happens bc… of smth that’s a spoiler. it was just rlly funny.)

violence: 4/10 (this book rlly wasn’t violent at all. minimal blood, no gore or anything. there was a scene where there were vampires? idk stephanie has a weird obsession with blood and vampires.)

cursing: 0/10 (none that i can remember, so either i just have become desensitized to the word damn, or it wasn’t in here at all) ...more

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Aug 09, 2024 uma 🎀 rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fav-series-books

omggg so yes i read this again. it’s even better on the third time!! i fucking LOVE these characters so much! every single scene im in love with. and JACKS. OMFG JACKS!!! he’s literally so cute and you can tell how obsessed he is with evangeline, especially now that im rereading this series 😆😆😆🤭🤭🤭😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤 and now yes i’m creating a pinterest board of them!! this book is so whimsical and fun, and just everything about it is perfect. read this book if you haven’t already pls pls pls!! i love this bo ...more

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Feb 19, 2025 a rose ♥︎ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 5-star, romantasy

4.5
Excellent book! Loved the characters, had an intriguing plot, and good romance!
Characters
Eva: always love. Smart, but also kind and forgiving? YES PLEASE. While I love a good vigilante, it’s nice to have a normal (ish) mc
Jacks: are words really needed?
Apollo: sigh… my dude, I am deeply sorry that you had to endure that. I expect real characterization next book
Marisol: yes, yes, ok, WHOA THERE
Luc: no. Just no.

Romance
The chemistry was there! I’m intrigued to see how she builds this out, beca ...more

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Jan 02, 2025 nova (semi-ia) ౨ৎ˚⟡ rated it liked it

Shelves: alphabet

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 2.5 stars rounded up because I like this author’s other books and think it has potential for the second.
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Characters-
I only started to like Jacks towards the end. He was a pretty flat character to me. After the vampire venom (also, by the way, what was that? more on this later) I was getting more of the intended vibes from him, but then he didn’t do anything, just laid around and slept.
Evangeline was naive and boring. Definitely gave too much “uwu” vibes to me. Her pure heart and 2.5 stars rounded up because I like this author’s other books and think it has potential for the second.
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I only started to like Jacks towards the end. He was a pretty flat character to me. After the vampire venom (also, by the way, what was that? more on this later) I was getting more of the intended vibes from him, but then he didn’t do anything, just laid around and slept.
Evangeline was naive and boring. Definitely gave too much “uwu” vibes to me. Her pure heart and all the dramatic deliberating over Marisol really got old. She’s a witch. Tada! Unsurprised due to the amount of foreshadowing that was all spoon-fed to the reader through Evangeline’s thoughts. Characters like Evangeline can be much more interesting, imo.
I hated Apollo. One-dimensional comedic character. The whole thing was so rushed. I wish we’d gotten more of his interaction with her before magical instalove, and more face-to-face with him under the spell to unsettle us more. That whole plotline bored me.
Oops. Now he’s dead. Remind me why I should care? He was a painfully one-dimensional character with a personality that was incredibly removed from endearing. It’s giving puppy with seperation anxiety 😭😭
LaLa was very entertaining! She seems deeper than the other characters, what with her Fate backstory and all. I actually really liked her and hope she features more!!
Setting-
scrumptious. Loved the little dragons and food. I would literally love to live in the North. The scandal sheets were hilarious as well!! I loved how we got to see something more of the caraval universe.
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Jacks’s schemes are unsurpassed. What was bro doing the entire time 😭😭 it was pretty funny ngl
Didn’t love how the author kept using the word “décolletage”. Come on, you can say cleavage (especially when Jacks is staring straight at Evangeline’s. I’d say that can’t be made more appropriate by using a word that miiight sneak it past the sensors). My opinion: either give her a low neck and don’t comment on it if you only have one word, Or give her a nice high neck. that’s something I don’t see a lot of throughout her books. feel like she’s missing out on an opportunity to make these gowns super varied and silly! a corset and a low cut neckline do not equal beauty, or even a flattering dress. I’d love to see more high necks, big poofy sleeves, more dresses that aren’t focused on sexy. (this might be a little pet peeve left over from caraval…. 🤫🤫🤫)
Ok where did those vamps come from? Why haven’t we heard about them before???? Why aren’t they mentioned in Caraval if humans get turned into vampires all the time? Why aren’t they regulated? Why! Aren’t! These! Vampires! Supported! By! Worldbuilding!

That’s all! I think this was definitely a book people could love, just not for me. Similar to my view of the second Caraval book; a little too “no plot, just vibes”.
ok have a wonderful day!!
— your neighbor totoro 🌱

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Sep 11, 2024 enola rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own

3.5⭐️

it didn't do it for me. i think i was getting into a reading slump when i read it and that's why but i was only reading it for the romance so i wasn't interested in the plot at all. it's still a good book tho. ...more

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