Having never read the Caraval series, I really enjoyed learning more about his past as the story unfolded.
He is wondrously morally grey, and extremely untrustworthy, but there is also something a little broken about him. Jacks possibly became one of my all time favourite characters when reading this. She quickly comes to realise that they don’t always exists, but there is a small part of her that hopes she is destined for one in the end. Her journey and character growth through this book are one of the things I loved most, she is bold and brave and sometimes a little impulsive, but she is also just the quiet girl who grew up in her fathers curiosity shop, whose head was filled with happily ever afters. She is a little naive, always seeing the best in people, and doesn’t always make the best decisions, as proved when she makes the deal with Jacks to stop her step-sisters wedding. But Jacks has other plans for Evangeline, plans that might make her dream of a fairy tale life come true, or have it come burning down around her.Įvangeline is a girl who wants true love, something she thought she had found. After the events of her step sisters wedding, Evangeline becomes something of a fairy tale herself, and is tasked by the Empress to travel to the Magnificent North and be their envoy for Nocte Neverending, the night the Prince will choose his bride to be. Only, as the stories usually go things don’t quite go to plan, and Evangeline ends up making a deal for three kisses with Jacks deciding the who and the where. When Evangeline finds out the boy she loves is set to marry her step sister she knows she will do anything to stop it, even if that means making a deal with one of the infamous and trickster fates, Jack of Hearts. Raised by her mother from the north and her father from the south, she has always dreamt of a world where the stories she grew up on were real, and has always wanted a life like in one of the books she read. I had no preconceived ideas of the characters, their behaviours etc and enjoyed coming to this world with fresh eyes and with no pre thought out opinion on what would happen/ how people would act.Įvangeline Fox is a girl who has always believed in fairy tales. You absolutely don’t need to have read the Caraval series to enjoy this book, and I’m glad that I didn’t.
I can confirm all thoughts and opinions are my own.įor once, I feel like not reading the prequel series was actually a good thing.
Thank you to Hodderscape for the review copy.
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