Once Upon A Broken Heart - Stephanie Garber

I don't often re-read books; a book has to be really special for me to do that. It's one of the reasons I tend to not read series until they're at completion - so I can devour in one swoop. However, after being so invested in the Caraval series, I knew I wouldn't have been able to wait with Stephanie Garber's next series.

I first read Once Upon A Broken Heart back in February last year and I have been EAGERLY *impatiently* waiting for The Ballad of Never After ever since.

If I remember rightly, the first read was over the course of maybe a couple of days... the re-read was the same.

This is a book that is so easy to get invested in. As a YA novel, the language is easy without being patronising, and the plot is deep enough without being over complex.

Whist this is a continuation of the world featured in the Caraval series, you can read OUABH as a standalone series (though I'm also itching to reread Caraval)

Evangeline Fox is orphaned. She thought she'd found love with Luc and when she finds out he's betrothed to her step sister, she takes a visit to the chapel of The Prince of Hearts, making a deal with the Fate to stop the wedding.

But you should never make a deal with a Fate and Evangeline finds herself amongst immortals, married to a prince, a fugitive for murder and being used as a key to open an ancient arch that she's never even heard of, sealing Gods knows what.

Check out my review of the sequel, The Ballad of Never After here...

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