Once Upon a Broken Heart
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4.4 • 447 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART marks the launch of a new series from Stephanie Garber about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.
Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.
But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game — and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy.
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First in a series spun off from her Caraval trilogy, Garber's dreamy fantasy follows 17-year-old Evangeline Fox, whose boyfriend, Luc Navarro, unexpectedly proposes to her stepsister, Marisol Tourmaline. Luc and Marisol are virtual strangers, and Luc won't explain, so Evangeline assumes her stepmother bewitched them both and strikes a deal with a cunning, immortal Fate known as Jacks and the Prince of Hearts, to stop the wedding; in exchange, Evangeline must later kiss three people of his choosing. Jacks halts the ceremony, but after his methods cause misery for everyone involved, Evangeline and Marisol journey from the Meridian Empire to the magical Magnificent North. Hoping for a fresh start, they'll attend festivities designed to find Prince Apollo a bride. Upon arriving, however, Evangeline encounters Jacks and realizes that their trip is somehow part of his plan. Evangeline, Marisol, and Jacks are cued white; several supporting characters have brown or olive skin. Despite some frothy plotting, Garber enchants readers with exquisitely imagined worldbuilding and her trademark heady romance. Evocative if occasionally overwrought prose adds to the tale's dreamlike feel. Ages 13 up.
Customer Reviews
incredible, thank me later
obsessed! i was watching my fav youtuber alexa raye read this and i decided to give it a try. best choice i’ve made my whole life. i devoured this book in three days. i was hooked from the very beginning and i remember that i was riding home from the library after checking this out and i literally had read to page eighty already. anyway, i’m so obsessed with this book and the world this author has created. pick it up, you won’t regret it and you will be running to me to thank me for this incredible recommendation. not only is this book so good but then you get to book two and it is just perfection. i am dying waiting for book three at the moment 💔
Amazing
This book is just generally really good if you haven’t read you totally should. :3
OH MY LOVING LORD..
This book.. UGH! This book was my life. My librarian picked it out for me and I was at first like naw I don’t want a corny romance book, but huh. This was not some corny romance novel. I don’t even know if it’s really even a romance since they didn’t really fall in love but all I know is that I ship it.