Scan barcode
A review by ergative
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
4.0
I really enjoyed this! It started out a bit slow and a bit forced, with a rather frustrating sequence that gives the impression that a MUCH more interesting story is happening to other people off the page while our main character spends some weeks as a stone statue. But once Evangeline gets up north and plot starts happening to her--especially in the second half--I was fully engrossed. Very twisty turny events, with lots of false starts and clues and red herrings and revelations that fully and completely had me fooled, but which in retrospect were set up very well by previous events. It does end on a cliffhanger, though, and Goodreads tells me it's the first of a four book series. I'm not sure it's engrossing enough to keep me interested for four books, but if it were a two-book series I'd definitely pick up the second. Might do that anyway.