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

Stephanie Garber

Start date: May 1, 2025

Finish date: May 31, 2025

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Jul 21, 2025 Shaden rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2025, dnf, fantasy

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Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
⭐ 1 / 5
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✨ ❝The prettiest cages are still cages.❞ ✨

I started this book hoping for a fairytale: enchanted palaces, tragic princes, and dangerous bargains. But by page 100 I realized it wasn’t pulling me in.

The pacing felt rushed. One moment Evangeline was making desperate bargains with Jacks, the next she was arriving at the ball. Scenes moved too quickly for me ...more

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Feb 28, 2025 clover ୨୧ - hiatus rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

ok i LOVED this book, to say the least. like this was sooo good.

side note: i did read this before i read the caraval series, whoops, but its ok because i finished the caraval series and can finally continue this one

ok so the first half felt a bit slow but once they got into the north it was really good. the scene with tabitha fortuna (the granny with the dogs) was kinda creepy but it was also interesting at the same time. all the tales about the magical things like the arches and the curses were ...more

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Feb 24, 2025 lion ♡ rated it really liked it

Shelves: g-romance, 4-stars, n-books, m4-feb-2025, g-fantasy, m5-mar-2025, x-re-read, g-romantasy, h-spring-romances, z-stephanie-garber

4.75 stars

, im sorry but i finished this at school and realized u were supposed to read caraval first??? like… yeah so now im continuing with ouabh & gonna listen to caraval trilogy in audiobook (on hold) since I don’t have psychical copies of those & my ouabh copies r from the libary!!

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omg im in love w this couple and NEED to see what happens & am prob gonna binge read some more like a crazy person <3

also I want to read caraval after just to see more of these characters xx 💋

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6 stars !! ...more

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