The Ballad of Never After
by Stephanie Garber
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 800L · 416 pages · 2022
Why we'd hand it over
Garber's prose is lush and the magic system feels lived-in; the romantic tension with two suitors is genuinely complex, and Evangeline's agency matters—but it's a series payoff book that assumes familiarity with *Broken Heart*.