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imme_van_gorp 's review for:
The Ballad of Never After
by Stephanie Garber
This was really disappointing. Everyone always raves about this book as if it’s absolutely amazing, especially due to the romance, but that was exactly what was not really working for me.
The way people talk about Evangeline and Jacks, I honestly expected something really different. I knew he would be cold and unfeeling, but I also expected her to be the exception to that. I thought he would be obsessed with her, choosing her above everything and anyone, only having eyes for her, being protective, and basically just being really in love with her, despite him not wanting to be. I didn’t get that, though.
Instead, he just constantly lied to her, betrayed her, left her, mocked her, and just overall treated her like she didn’t matter. This was not the guy I was promised and neither was this romance.
Speaking of the romance, it also ruined Evangeline’s character for me. She was so charming and endearing in book 1, but now her whole personality was reduced to her pathetic longing for Jacks.
She only ever thought about him and how he felt about her, nothing else mattered. No matter how badly he treated her or how often he betrayed her, she never got angry, she never held him accountable, and it never changed her feelings for him.
He could do whatever, and it would never change anything. She would still be the lovesick girl, pining after a guy who never gives her the time of day. That’s the opposite of romantic for me.
That said, the plotline was still pretty interesting. It certainly wasn’t as charming or magical as the first book, but I was still intrigued to find out how everything would turn out.
I wanted to know where the story would lead, what the secrets would reveal, and who everyone’s true identity was. Obviously, I did not get all the answers here yet, but enough was answered for this book to not feel like filler (as so many middle books in trilogies do tend to be).
The way people talk about Evangeline and Jacks, I honestly expected something really different. I knew he would be cold and unfeeling, but I also expected her to be the exception to that. I thought he would be obsessed with her, choosing her above everything and anyone, only having eyes for her, being protective, and basically just being really in love with her, despite him not wanting to be. I didn’t get that, though.
Instead, he just constantly lied to her, betrayed her, left her, mocked her, and just overall treated her like she didn’t matter. This was not the guy I was promised and neither was this romance.
Speaking of the romance, it also ruined Evangeline’s character for me. She was so charming and endearing in book 1, but now her whole personality was reduced to her pathetic longing for Jacks.
She only ever thought about him and how he felt about her, nothing else mattered. No matter how badly he treated her or how often he betrayed her, she never got angry, she never held him accountable, and it never changed her feelings for him.
He could do whatever, and it would never change anything. She would still be the lovesick girl, pining after a guy who never gives her the time of day. That’s the opposite of romantic for me.
That said, the plotline was still pretty interesting. It certainly wasn’t as charming or magical as the first book, but I was still intrigued to find out how everything would turn out.
I wanted to know where the story would lead, what the secrets would reveal, and who everyone’s true identity was. Obviously, I did not get all the answers here yet, but enough was answered for this book to not feel like filler (as so many middle books in trilogies do tend to be).