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Heartless

Marissa Meyer

4.0 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

this was a reread god i love this book
adventurous funny medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I read it 5/6 years ago and I really enjoyed it at the time.

3.5

SO GOOOOOOOD :(

I was expecting brilliance, and wonderland. It didn’t deliver. What I got was mediocre, and …I don’t know, crazy old English town?

I enjoyed the love interest, but it’s not like you can hope for a HEA when you already know she ends up being the queen of hearts. The plot twists were, to me, very obvious. I really liked the triplets! I think they were my favorite part and really showed the writers creativity, where the parts in wonderland seemed like she was trying to shove her story in where it didn’t belong.

…it was fine? Maybe recommend to a teenager who sort of likes the Alice movies?

Did anyone else picture Tom Hiddleston as Jest or was that just me?
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

I've always loved Wonderland, so an origin story for the Queen of Hearts? Yes, please!

I finished Heartless yesterday and I still don't know how to feel. It's such a good book—but that ending??? As a reader I knew how the story would end, and yet I still hoped. Stubbornly, hopelessly hoped... and somehow, watching it happen was even sadder than I expected. A tragic love story wrapped in cursed fate.

The way everything slowly gets darker is so sad, but so beautifully done. The ending was, inevitably, an awful outcome, but the way Catherine fell into deep despair was so smoothly, so brilliantly written. Devastating, but brilliant. The way she loses her heart was pretty unique and a good plot twist.

Murderer. Martyr. Monarch. Mad.
Marissa Meyer's writing is whimsical and haunting at the same time.
This book was an unforgettable read—heartbreakingly beautiful.

emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No