Here’s a short summary of Once Upon a Broken Heart:
After being ignored by her beloved, Luc, who is set to marry her stepsister, Evangeline decides to go to a church of heartbreak and pain and pray, hoping at least one god at the altar will hear her plea. She garners the attention of a Fate named Jacks, who in an attempt to help Evangeline’s heartbreak, uses his twisted magic, causing devastation and trouble. Evangeline is pulled away from her trinket shop and to a world of court politics and intrigue, a place where Evangeline may end up as a pampered royal or a sought-dead-or-alive fugitive on the run.
Here's a short review of the novel:
Out of every book on this list, Once Upon a Broken Heart is the one I hated the most. I was impressed by its glitzy cover and interesting slipped-on summary, but aside from that, the rest of the book was painfully mediocre and downright atrocious. The first two chapters were the peak in my mind before it sloped over to its metaphorical death. The first chapter - or prologue, as I should say - starts with the perspective of a bell in Evangeline’s shop, and it shows the intricacy and prose the author could clearly write. Then, after the two chapters, the plot began to go haywire and consisted of royalty and vampires, which didn’t fit the more surreal tale I previously had felt. I put this book on this recommendations list because I think it was a quick read with not much involved - kind of like eating pure sugar. You might get a stomachache, but still, the exhilaration of the ride would give oneself nostalgia or wistfulness.