He pulls her into his bed instead, murmuring she won’t remember anyway, and melts away her resistance with words and his touch. She is kept in the cage to keep her from biting a human and turning, and in the meantime, Chaos tells her he wants to open the arch, too. and one of those scene was golden, jacks himself nursed her back to health🥹 the softness in jack was so sweet and everything help. Evangeline refuses but realizes all the great houses will be present at the party, wondering if any of them possesses one of the stones and if they might take it to the party. If Jacks hadn’t betrayed her, if he hadn’t set her up for murder, she might have been a little bewitched by him.

lives were truly destroyed in those last 30 pages🫠 the way these words have stuck with me ever since i first read them AND IT STILL DESTROYED ME JUST AS MUCH AS THE FIRST TIME SOBBING RN. As they travel to Wolf Hall and the arch, Evangeline realizes Chaos, with his cursed helmet, is the monster the Valors created that the old scandal sheet article wrote about, the monster that bit out throats. He quickly catches on to the effect of the truth stone, but before he can snatch the stone from her, she asks him the one question that keeps pestering her: why does he want to open the arch? She takes it with her and goes back to her room, where she sees Petra secretly leaving Jacks’s room, but when she goes to check in on him, he is not there.just took my last exam time to finish this series 😋 br w kaylee again <3 (make sure to check out her review! She finds herself in a cage in Chaos’s castle, where Jacks and Chaos tell her they will let her be bitten by a vampire to heal her from her wounds. I loved reading their conflicts, that yearning yet denying each other, the vulnerability especially when it came to Jacks.

the ballad of never after doesn’t concern itself with the practical; if anything, it favors idealism, asking you “what could be” if you dream big enough — if you just believe.

In a beam near her bed, she finds four names carved into the wood: Aurora, Lyric, Castor, and Jacks.

In her room, Evangeline briefly takes the mirth stone out to relieve the emotional pain she’s feeling but puts it away again when Apollo enters her room. The release date couldn’t be any more farther for book 3 as I’m currently experiencing the only book hangover from it. tbh she can tell me it was blond right to my face and i would hear “brown” because delusion is not a temporary state of mind, it is the way of life.she possesses an unparalleled amount of hope, a sense of determination that keeps her from giving up, and it is this quality that makes her especially compelling. This series is written so beautiful, there’s so many stories twisted in one story, and you’d think that would make it messy, but Stephanie Garber really made it work! not the book telling me this doesn’t end well like 20 times and everybody who’s read it telling me it doesn’t end well and me ! He acts coldly towards her, but when she pushes back and demands to know why he is being cruel, he breaks and shouts at her to leave so Chaos cannot try to feed on her.

Well you know when the next book in a series is about to come out and you can't remember all the main details of the previous books? Jacks didn’t do this, he claims, and they both rush from the room, only to find that Apollo’s successor, Lucien, has arrived early and has held his crowning ceremony without Evangeline. For Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays Evangeline in the worst possible way, she swears she will never, ever trust this Fate again no matter how much she may be drawn to him or wonder if there could be a more human.

winning at love was less about succeeding in a battle and more about continuing to fight, to choose the person you loved as the one you were willing to die for, over and over.