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Review: Fable

Fable Fable by Chanda Hahn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a two-for-one book review! The first review is from my first time reading this a couple years ago, and the second review is from today, September 10th.

(This review was written more than a year after reading this book.)

I was so excited to get this book. I pre-ordered it and everything. But when I read it... This book was just a huge disappointment to me. Chanda's writing was absolutely terrible and it ruined the book for me. Maybe the writing was like this the entire series and I never noticed because I was a book novice when I started the series. I'm still pre-ordering the next book because I love Jared and the story itself is very intriguing. Plus I have very good memories of loving the first two books, so I don't want to stop reading this series. Yet? We'll see. 3/5 stars.

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Spoiler (not really) I stopped reading the series. But I restarted it so here's my reread review!
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I feel it's safe to say that the second time reading this was a lot better than the first. The first time I was just wayy too hyped and excited about it. 4/5 stars for round two.

I feel like a lot happened. For most of the book it was pretty contemporary. Just kinda life stuff with evil metal monsters sprinkled here and there. And then shit really goes down and Mina (I feel like you know this is going to happen one way or another the whole book so it's not a spoiler) finally goes to the Fae plane and we meet a new friend! Heheheheh.

There was a twist here and there that when they happened just made me feel so stupid. This is my SECOND time reading this and I still got really shocked. (view spoiler)

There were lots of parts of Brody being jealous and annoying.

Brody walked out the door and saw the placement of Jared's hands on her [back]. He scowled.


Like, can you not? You're dating Nan, you jerk.

But Brody wasn't the only problematic teenage boy. Jared was pretty pissy like, the whole book. Now, y'all KNOW how much I love Jared, but... ehhhh. (view spoiler)

But there was one character that actually got better: Ever. I just kind of hated her because I remember I hated her the first time I read these. But she was actually pretty cool this time around.

"NO!" Mina and Brody cried in unison, while Ever pumped her fist and yelled, "YES!"

This was when I started realizing that Ever's not as bad as I thought.

Ever looked furious, Ever looked glorious.

Iconic.

Bonus Comments on Quotes Cuz You Know I Annotated the Shit out of my Book:

Mina couldn't help but feel slightly disheveled in her discount jeans and cute rainbow tank top, blue hoodie, and converse shoes.

Mina was casually cosplaying Rainbow Dash and she didn't even know it.

"...She [Mina] likes to read, but not that smutty stuff--classics, and books that have depth to them."

Ironic.

Click these links to go read my other reviews for the Unenchanted Fairytale series!
Book 1: Unenchanted
Book 2: Fairest
Book 3: Fable <--You are here.
Book 4: Reign
Book 1.5: Jared’s Quest
Book 5: Forever

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