I felt sad for Apollo here. The guy did nothing wrong, yet Jacks, his supposedly friend stabbed him in the back several times. No matter what, Apollo is 100% justified in his hate towards him and the fact he has wanted posters.
In my teenage years, I would have supported Jacks, but today, even if I really ship Evajacks, I don’t truly think Jacks deserve this happy ending. He never apologized or felt bad for his actions. He never felt sorry for Apollo, his friend.
And please let’s all not forget that he did NOTHING for Evangeline’s happiness. He was literally going to use the stones, erasing her memories as well, knowing fully that she would go through all these miseries again, only without him. He was alright using and pressuring Evangeline all this time, just to have his „own happiness“ and her going through all this misery on her own and who knows maybe even worse.
In ACFTL, Jacks again wanted to rip his heart out and again leave Evangeline in misery. He triggered her remembering him, only so that he could leave her again.
I still can’t help but feel like, that Apollo might have been the original happy ending of Evangeline but the course of the story changed? And I really like the third book because it has this slightly gentlemanly romantic touch, the relationship between Eva and Apollo has some very nice moments where I thought, they actually could have been happy if they talked things out and Apollo confessed everything. I had enjoyed the first book where he is cursed (sadly) a lot too. They fit together well actually. I just think in order to make Evajacks happen, Apollo who showed regret for his actions, suddenly was turned into someone who he was not. And that’s tragic.
