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ktame001's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Minor: Confinement and Toxic relationship
maresuju's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Torture and Abandonment
anton13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Self harm, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol
amre23's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Classism
Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol
scrubsandbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
The reason I didn't give it a one star are solely for the world-building, the descriptive text, and Rebecca Soler's narration. No matter what, I want to find Garber and ask her to please hire someone to make all the ball gowns and dresses in this book come to life. I love the whimsical settings (though the four poster bed inside a cage within another cage was the only wtf), I love the way she writes.
But damn did Evangeline really just annoy the hell out of me in this book.
Graphic: Confinement and Blood
Moderate: Death
kefredriksen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
kassidyreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement
kirstenf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement and Sexual content
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
gimmiiie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
And TBNA was perfection. 5.0.👌
TBNA is a fantastic read. It was filled with action, relationships. It fall into the pitfalls from what OUBH suffered. Evangeline's character felt more real and she took actions rather than events just happening to her. Evangeline also had character growth losing some of the delusional hopeless romantic and gullibility.
The setting and world building was improved.
Spoilers below~
There was so much I loved about it. The beginning wasn't slow (my biggest gripe with OUBH) and the pace maintained and was good.
The banter between Jacks and Evangeline. Period.
I love it when the adorable nickname is dropped for the first time: "It sounded like Jacks’s voice. But he’d said her name, not Little Fox. Jacks never said her name."
Garber took the daring and thought ending. Evangeline and Jacks had to have had the sad ending they got. The foreshadowing and the title all implied what was going to happen. That they would have heartbreak. Both endings were devastating. I am heartbroken. Any happy ending would have been cheap. It would be a deus ex machina. Both endings were the tragedy of Evangeline's death or loss of her memories.
"The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form."
There has to be a sequel. There's too many loose endings for there not to be:
-Evangeline's step-sister
-LaLa's curse and true love
-The Valors are alive! What are the implications of this?
-Will Evangeline recover her memories and be reunited with Jacks?
-What will happen the curse on Jacks?
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, and Murder