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Review: Jared's Quest: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale Short Story

Jared's Quest: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale Short Story Jared's Quest: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale Short Story by Chanda Hahn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh my god this was sooo great. I really want to give this five stars just because it was soo sooo soo soooooo enjoyable but let’s face it, this is NOT on the same level as like, Catcher in the Rye or some other REAL five star book. So I’ll give it 4.5/5 stars.
sorrynotsorry

I’ve read my good share of companion novellas. What really sucks is when the novella doesn’t seem necessary (Cough, Four, cough, Fairest). Even if it’s enjoyable I just can’t fully enjoy it if it doesn’t actually add something to the main story or give me a substantial amount of information. But hey guess what? Jared’s Quest was not only an awesome read, but it also dishes out a butt-ton of information!

This really is a must read for lovers of the Unfortunate Fairytale series. I definitely think you must read this at least after reading Reign and NO SOONER (even though it’s set between books 1 and 2) because it spoils the previous books. I pre-ordered my copy of Reign so it came with Jared’s Quest after the end of Reign. It was exactly what I needed after my Jared withdrawals from Reign. Book two was the Golden Age of Jared and it was sooo fantastic to go back in time and have good old Jared back.
Maybe he should tell her [Mina] the reason for pressing her face into the earth and practically making her eat dirt, but that wasn’t in his nature. He would just let her grumble and fume and complain.

There’s that suave motherfucker I remember.
Jared flashed his dangerous smile at her [Lucy]. He watched as her eyes widened and her hand unconsciously moved to her heart. “Lucy, when I want something, I get it.”

me

Of course, as per usual, there are many lols to be had in this book.

Uh oh, another angry female.
God damn angry females.


The real awesome thing about this novella was the fact that it’s told through Jared’s perspective! It was extremely enlightening and interesting to see exactly what goes on in that *cough, pretty* head of his. We also got a whooooolllle lot of new information (as mentioned previously) because of this. In Jared’s head he’s not afraid of saying too much information, or censoring himself. I made a list of most (because I may have missed some) of the things we learned in this novella.

Here are some of the less spoilery things we learned:
• Jared thinks Meira (Mei) is annoying… heh.
Quote: …checked to see if he could see Mrs. Wong inside. Nope, the restaurant was as dark and abandoned as the rest of the street. He was free from running into the annoying woman.

• Jared hates Mina’s “human emotions” at times.
Quote: He hated these human emotions of hers [Minas], at times like this.

• Jared can literally smell fear.
Quote: His ears picked up whispering, and his nose picked up a particular scent that he knew quite well—fear.

• Jared describes Mina’s eyebrows as “little eyebrows”… I dunno I just found this amusing.
Quote: Her [Minas] little eyebrows pinched together in annoyance…

• Jared hate’s being weak. #relatable.
Quote: Mina pleaded at him with her big brown eyes. Gosh, she didn’t know what those pleading eyes did to him. It made him feel weak, and he hated being weak.

• And I totally get why Ever was mean to Mina at first. There’s not really anything super specific that made me feel this way.
Quote: “Yeah that’s Ever. She’s the air I breathe.” That line (in context) literally made me laugh out loud for a few seconds.


Here are some SPOILER-y things we learned (don’t click on the spoiler tag if you haven’t read the book):

(view spoiler)


Since I did the Marry, Kiss, Cliff game with the boys on my Reign review, I decided I wanted to do the girl version, Be, Room, Cliff this time around! I didn’t find any already made, so I decided to Photoshop my own, inspired by the boy version.
photoshop skillz
Now I don't know about you, but this one is wayyy harder than the boy version. I really don't want to cliff ANY of them!! Ever? NO! She's awesome! Nan? No... she's too nice! Mina? No... she's the main character I can't cliff her... I'll just get back to this later.

Okay, who would I want to be? Mina. LOLNOPE. How about Nan or Ever? Hmm... If I'm Ever I get to be a pixie and have magical powers... but I would be part of the fae which have a corruptive government it seems... If I'm Nan I get to be rich and bubbly and popular... but my parents are divorced and I'm gonna be just a human... I think I'll be Ever.

Okay, Mina vs. Nan, who would I room with and who would I kill? Uhhh... I think... I'm going to room with Nan... and kill Mina. :X Omg I know!!! But come on, let's face it, if I push Mina down a cliff she's either going to use the Grimoire and morph it into a grappling hook or something, use fae magic and save herself that way, or Jared would help her. So it's a win-win really! As long as Mina and Jared don't get some sort of vendetta against me... But I'll be Ever, so they've got to forgive meeeeee, right?

Hehe so anyway, full answer: Be: Ever, Room: Nan, Cliff: Mina.


So yeah, this novella was fricken awesome. From the past couple books I haven’t been really enjoying Jared as much as I want to, but this novella rekindled my flame, and for that I am grateful. On to the last book!!!

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

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