annie 🇵🇸's Reviews > Once Upon a Broken Heart

4 stars

This is one of the most interesting worlds I've encountered in fantasy books. Everything was so dreamy, and I might've enjoyed reading about cards if I'd read Caraval. The first book is interesting enough to finish this series quickly. I wanna read it slowly & enjoy it while wanting to finish it quickly because it's so GOOD.

❝For anyone who has ever made a bad decision because of a broken heart.❞

This dedication is enough to make you want to read this book! I LOVE IT AND NEXT BIO IS GONNA BE THIS ONE! 🙌🏻😭


• Evangeline went to the Prince of Heart's church thinking that her prayer might be answered by Fate – prince of Hearts – and the wedding of her lover would be stopped. Desperate and heartbroken enough, she made a deal with fate to stop her lover's wedding in exchange for three kisses with people he choose.

The Prince of Hearts has such a certain vibe! His kiss is deadly, his heart doesn't beat, and the most important – he's heartbroken and is cursed to never find love, which gives Eva hopes that he might help her. Their first interaction was so funny, and I was getting second-hand embarrassments from her behalf! I didn't expect Jacks to be such a meanie! 😭

❝People who don’t like me call me Jacks.❞

Jacks – he's the cursed prince of hearts who's a manipulator, a toxic person who'll do anything to gain what he wants, and cocky. BUT WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE SO HOT AND PERFECT? It'll always be the villain and never the hero besides.... the hero never gets a happy ending! 🤭 The hype for him is real, and I see myself falling in love with him, just like I did with Aaron Warner 😮‍💨

I'm literally a simp for him atp! Him doing mundane things like tossing the apple, slicing the apple, BITING THE APPLE had me swooning! ANDDDD HE HADDDD NOOO RIGHT TO BE SOOOO HOT IN THIS SCENEEE!!!!! 👇🏻

❝What am I supposed to do with this [dagger]?❞
❝You might want to use it, Little Fox.❞ The corner of his mouth twitched as he slowly slid his pale hands through the bars of the gate and broke the lock in half. It could have been a twig, a piece of paper, or her.


Evangeline Fox — she's just a naive girl with a hopeless romantic personality, and well, she's quite delusional but would call herself hopeful! She has been surrounded by so many fairy tales that she just wants her life to be like it. She's smack-dabbed in the face with the realities, but she'd rather create alternatives to not tarnish the image of people she cares about. I actually liked her selflessness and her acceptance of her BAD DECISION. But there's nothing much interesting to her character besides this. Not a huntress or amazing at fighting too lmao. So far, she's a hopeless romantic who's kind of attracted to Jacks because he's a baddie but doesn't want to die either by kissing him.

Enemies to lovers — their dynamic is so good? Evangeline has hot and cold feelings for him. She's torn between wanting to kiss him or hate him. Jacks being absolutely mean with her one moment and saying things HE SHOULDN'T the next moment were too much to handle and him calling her LITTLE FOX 💞🤭

❝Do you want to be a vampire?❞
❝No,❞ Jacks spat. ❝I don’t want to be a vampire, but I do want to bite you.❞

SIR????? 😮‍💨🧎‍♀️🥵😭

❝You might not like me, but I bet you’d like it if I kissed you.❞





Jacks... wdym IT WAS ENTERTAINING TO SEE HER KISS APOLLO AND THAT OLD LADY FORTUNA ??? 😭 That was really unnecessary, but he just wanted to toy with Eva by making her kiss them! He outright accepted that he manipulated her. He's actually evil in this book regardless of his past, and he threatened her subtly that she'd die if she didn't agree with her part of the bargain. I'm all but patient for his character development and just to see his softie side, after all, a glimpse of it when he carried her through the cold just to take her to get a cure for the poison she got and let her sleep in his arms the whole night , was just 😭💞

❝You could have unlocked me as well❞ — I was wondering if Jacks had indulged her and struck a deal with her in the first place because she opened the church's door. It's known she can open Valory Arch, but maybe that was the time when Jacks realized that she's the rose-gold haired girl who's the one who can open the arch. and he didn't know her before.

Apollo being in love was so funny! I only liked that scene where they were talking and he was being nice, but otherwise, he was really quick to dismiss Eva in the first place, and Marisol is just a bitch! I just knew something was sus about her since the start because no one is too kind, and she's after all her mother's child, and yep she definitely stole Luc. I knew Jacks is evil! I do love him, but he's so manipulative, and the ending actually shocked me! I still hate Marisol because she's a bitch, but damn the way Jacks went through so much just to frame her and wrongly accused Eva just to get the prophecy right 😮‍💨🤚🏻 and yeahhh 4 stars just because, it had wayy too much info dumps! I actually enjoyed most of the book but there were sometimes long ass paragraphs just about NORTH. and Ummmm CHAOS SHOULD GET HIS OWN BOOK PLS + with Lala would be great!


• The Ballad Of Never After – 3.75 stars
• A Curse For True Love – 3 stars