#in need of more evajacks

[evajackslover]

these are actually so stunning!! might be some of my new favorite artworks, the details are insane and also so beautiful <3

artist @giannyfili on instagram!!

[herringdoodle]

[star-burst365]

“Children have treated toys better than you’ve treated me.”

As much as I love Scarlett (I’m an avid Tella hater im sorry), Evangeline is absolutely my favorite MC that Stephanie has written so far.

Here you have a deeply lonely character who hasn’t even turned 18 yet. All Evangeline wants is love — she gives so much of it (again and again) and it’s all she wants back. She forgives Marisol, befriends Luc again, and gives Jacks and the other Fates second and third and fourth chances. That’s why it hurts so badly when she gets so little of it. Everyone in the book uses her. Tiberius (to frame her for murder), Marisol, her Stepmother, Chaos, LaLa, and even Jacks. She stayed the entire night hugging (kind of) almost-vampire Jacks in the crypt just for him to abandon her when it was her under the venom 😭. In Jacks’s own words, she’s “the unluckiest person he’s ever met.” Our poor girl cannot catch a break: everyone in the books manipulate her for their own gain while she gets absolutely nothing in return, despite getting things done for the people around her. She found the stones, she unlocked the arch, and what did she get as a thank you? Dying in the arms of her almost-lover, before being turned away cruelly by said almost-lover and losing her memories. Jeez.

But that’s why it’s so inspiring seeing her get back up again and again. Evangeline would kill them with kindness if she wasn’t nice enough to try and save each and every one of them. She hugs and forgives LaLa after she placed a curse on her. She tries to talk Petra out of killing her (we all know how that went, yikes). She chooses Jacks again and again, because that’s what love is. It’s everything she stands for: fighting for the people you love and never abandoning them.

Idk, maybe it’s just me, but I really would love to see more of the characters appreciating her, this girl and her blind faith in everything that moves, who’s stubborn and fearless and determined to help others instead of herself. So excited for acftl <3

[dread3r]

This chapter really made me and evangeline go:

now i am: invested stephanie garber pls

[archerandthefoxx]

"When Jacks wanted something, it was with an intensity that could break worlds and build kingdoms. That was the energy pouring off him now, as if he wanted to destroy her and make her his queen all at once"

~The Ballad of Never After, Chapter 40

[onceuponaneverafter]

i get the vibe that jacks gives really nice hugs. like, he never hugs anyone (not, like, EVER) so literally nobody knows but if he did. it would be surprisingly amazing

[astraeajackson]

wait wait WAIT. I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED BOTH TRILOGIES YET BUT YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S GONNA BE AN EVAJACKS HOLIDAY BOOK AND A NEW JURDAN-CENTRIC BOOK COMING OUT AND HOLLY AND STEPHANIE HAVEN'T FINISHED WITH THEM YET???

AHSDHHDHDHDJSJSJS

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

I was watching shrek 2 and the plot is kind a lot like a curse for true love

hello!!

ACTUALLY??? DAMN I HAVE TO RE-WATCH SHREK 2 LMAO

i love how that was your first though while watching shrek 2

[moobell55]

Pov: Jacks thinking about how badly he wants Evangeline after literally forcing her to marry another man

No because when they get their happy ending (which they better) I need Evangeline to tease him and be like, “For someone who forced me to marry another man you certainly want to be my husband very badly.”

Anyways it’s funny to think that both Jacks and Evangeline probably will have both been divorced after ACFTL, Jacks from Tella and hopefully Eva from Apollo.

[the1northlanderprincess]

A Curse for True Love

A note: Apologies for the sudden onslaught of Evajacks posts. This is what happens when you discover a series so late in the game.

After waiting for it for 2 1/2 weeks, I finally got to read A Curse for True Love. I have to spill all the feels I am feeling over this series, because they are many.

While not as good as BONA, there is still some really good material. This love story is one of the best that you can get from books that resemble fairytales. There is something so profound about it, and deep. I mean, you have the fact that you get both Evangeline and Jacks being victims of curses and danger. It was a true fight for true love. It reminded of some of my favorite fictional couples.

For the cursed angle, it was giving Captain Swan (but done better...yeah, I said it), as well as Snowing. With Jacks pushing Evangeline away to keep her safe from him, it was very similar to Dimitri pushing Rose away in Spirit Bound and Last Sacrifice, which I love. Let me add, Jacks watching Evangeline and longing from afar was reminiscent of Peter watching Mary Jane after being rescued in SM2, and the ending scene of the CW BatB pilot. I need more literature like that.

I just love the simplicity of this series. It's so straightforward; nothing convoluted like you see in certain romantasies. And I believe I saw a booktuber (at least I think it was this series) say that the stakes are more realistic and higher**, which I have to agree with. You have the FMC trying to find a second love she can be happy with, seemingly finds it, then becomes enamored with the MMC. She knows that he is unable to be with her, but is determined to find a way to be with him. With the MMC, he's wanted love, thought he found it, but she backstabbed him. Now he's bitter, and does nefarious things. However, he slowly falls for the FMC unexpectedly, but doesn't want to hurt her, thus pushing her away. It all changes when she is killed, and he goes back in time to fix it because of how much he loves her. But it all goes wrong when the FMC's false love takes her memories. Fast forward to MMC trying to thwart the husband, or any way FMC may be endangered, trying to protect her so she can live. However, he is going to make sure he doesn't try to interact with her too much, and makes plans to disappear from her life forever. It hurts him immensely, but, like before, feels he has to. She regains her memories, discovers his plans, and she has a race against time before he destroys the thing that allows him to love. There is lots of begging, confessions, pushing/pulling, and the like. She makes a move and BAM! Curse lifted. Only, after all of that, the false love kidnaps her and MMC has to still fight to be with her. Totally no big deal, right? LOL.

What I liked about the curse breaking is that they both had to believe in their love. At first I was confused as to why the cuff hurt him when Jacks tried to kiss Evangeline, but it's because that his second heart isn't in close proximity, so, he wasn't in his right mind. He probably didn't think she loved him the way he loved her. Subconsciously he likely did, yet it wasn't until she said those words and risked her life to physically show him.

Anyway, my whole point is this: Evajacks has now topped Feysand within my top 3 book OTPs in terms of overcoming odds and development. Seriously, the guy was going to destroy his ability to feel because he couldn't bear losing her again...at his hand. That is real sacrifice. What Rhysand did pales in comparison.

Anyway, here's my top 10 book couples.

Top 10 Book OTPs:

Romitri***-Vampire Academy

Haven and Stolas-Kingdom of Runes

Evajacks-Once Upon a Broken

Feysand-A Court of Thorns and Roses

Chaolaena (so fight me)-Throne of Glass

Warnette (gosh, this was hard to place so low)-Shatter Me

Kane and Arwen-A Dawn of Onyx

Jurdan-The Cruel Prince

Mac and Jericho-Fever series

Sera and Ash (would have been higher if not for Fire in the Flesh)-Flesh and Fire

**Edit: Okay, I lied; it was a different book. But, the belief still stands. Also, unlike the booktuber, I don't see this as a guilty-pleasure series

***Romitri is the first book couple I fell in love with. They have to be number one, no matter how I feel about the others.

[clockwork-lady-of-airxdarkness]

I am begging anyone and everyone to send me any evajacks fanfics!! I just need more evajacks content and I will love you forever!!

[evajackslover]

some evajacks for your feed 😌

this beauty is by the wonderful @bethgilbert_art on instagram 🎀

[dollvre]

EVAJACKS NATION HOW WE FEELIN RIGHT NOW AFTER FINISHING ACFTL??

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

i always thought people never talked about this interview enough and how it explains a lot about jacks. i really liked this little interview page a lot<3

i totally agree though, my guy has work cut out for him

🌸 some thoughts on this jacks interview, and on a curse for true love! 🌸

the fact he thought about evangeline first 🤭 just putting this here because i like that he thought of evangeline (like, where your head was, jacks?) and because he put in a “who” when asked about tella.

now, imagine jacks directing all of his sociopathic energy towards winning over evangeline instead of trying to get back to someone else 🤩 after everything he’s put her through and the things he’s said to her, it’s going to be really nice to see him have trouble winning her over again. it’s something i’m looking forward to see, and i believe it’s the kind of love evangeline deserves. (of course i believe he deserves love too, but evangeline has already made it clear how much she loves him and how much she wants to be with him.)

furthermore, after the interview where stephanie says that she needed to break jacks, i think that everything he will go through will be necessary for him to truly understand the things he did and his feelings for her. after all, he is not human and his journey will not be an easy one. i actually quite like that stephanie has realized this and intends to build on it.

also, we’re all worried about the next book, but im surprisingly happy with the “danger” that apollo presents and really interested to see how stephanie will develop the plot. apparently he’ll be an interesting villain and give jacks some work to do. i’m also taking the line that “two villains will fight for her” literally because jacks is no good and i’m dying to see all the things he can do to win her, and steal her from apollo. it’s going to be very interesting.

[poetglasses]

In Defense of Jacks in ACFTL

I do have spoilers, so this is your warning not to venture further if you haven't finished reading.

First off, I love how the story was told and how it ended. Could we have gotten more of the other characters? Yes. Did we really need to? Maybe, but I certainly didn't mind the absence. I didn't think we needed to address every character that we've met. We saw Castor and Lala, and I was happy about it, but I was strictly here for Evajacks story, and that's what I got.

I think Eva and Jacks had character development in this novel.

Eva isn't as trusting and hopeful as she was in the previous two books, and I was happy about it! Girl was getting murder attempted on her, and her husband is a narcissistic, manipulative psychopath. The only people she could trust were 1) being kept away from her or 2) avoiding her because they thought they were doing the best thing for her if they did so *cough* jacks

Jacks watched the girl he loved die! He blamed himself for what happened to Eva, and then continued staying away because he felt guilty and thought he was keeping her safe in doing so. He didn't know Apollo took Eva's memories away. He was too busy making sure Castor didn't go within 10 feet of Eva because Castor did attack Jacks after he went back in time to save her! He was still around Eva, he was just hiding in the shadows or out in the balcony peering through the windows. He genuinely thought Apollo was the better choice for Eva because at least Apollo hadn't done anything to her (as far as he knew).

Jacks apologized to her under the phoenix tree, saying that when he went back in time, he thought the stones would have taken something from him, not Eva, or are we all ignoring that because of that beautiful love confession Eva gave? He wanted our girl to live! When Eva met Castor in the Cursed Forest, Jacks literally put a knife through his best friend's chest in fear of having a repeat of the first timeline! Castor wasn't even doing anything, he was just trying to have a conversation with her.

Jacks was the tortured lover we all knew him to be. He wasn't Jacks, Prince of Hearts, with a trail of deadly kisses in search of true love in this novel. He was Jacks of the Hollow, a man who loved his girl so much he wanted her to live instead of dying at his kiss. We all know how badly Eva wanted to kiss him, and we all know Jacks can hear her thoughts. Can we blame him for staying away? He literally said that if she died again, he could not bring her back. The idea of that was terrifying to him. He already used the stones, and going to Honora would have the possibility of turning her into a vampire, maybe worse.

Jacks felt different in this novel because he finally admitted how much he loves Eva. We've seen him do so many things for her throughout the series. Was he holding back in the other two books? I'd argue not really, but he certainly wasn't going to let her be with him. He didn't want to admit he was in love with her. Dude literally held her like a grudge in the first novel, a secret in the second novel, and then a promise in the third. The hints were there for us. He would literally do anything for her. He just didn't want to admit to himself he loved her because if he allowed himself to there was the possibility that she could die.

Does Eva die in this book? No, thank god. But don't act like you read their kiss scene and didn't fucking break a little when Jacks went "No! Not again".

[kigozula]

Spoilers:

Could the Evajacks novella be while the next Caraval takes place? Legend is still planning where and how it‘ll be…

They hinted the holiday in the Magnificent North has a tie with Caraval. But… I dislike the idea of Evajacks meeting Tella and Legend very much and hope they won’t meet.

This novella should be about Evajacks. Plus their friends with Chaos and Lala and the Valor children maybe. 100% OUABH. Spectacular was only for the original Caraval characters, OUABH characters deserve the same commitment I‘d say. I mean Caraval turned back after a break, now we had a break from OUABH and that series should also have its fourth book in it‘s own world. We saw enough of the Caraval cast. We need more Evajacks, Chaos, Lala and maybe even Luc and Marisol.