Ever After High: The Secret Diary of Raven Queen

by Heather Alexander

An exciting paper-over-board middle grade novel featuring Raven Queen, daughter of the Evil Queen!

Dear Diary,

I'm so hexcited for spring break! It's royally disappointing that Dad has to cut our time together short, but it's royally cool that I get to spend the break with my best friends forever after, Madeline Hatter and Cerise Hood! I just hope I can shake this fairy, fairy weird feeling I've been having. It's almost as if my mom, the Evil Queen, put a curse on me! But she's in mirror prison, so that's impossible....Right? Maybe I'm just losing my crown!

Charm you later,

Raven Queen

© 2017 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.

Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Juvenile

160 pages, Hardcover

Published January 10, 2017

Reviews

[Bara · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's cute. Short and shallow.
More like the doll diaries than the Selfors's and Hale's novels.
I'm glad I read it though, I feel nostalgic everytime I get back to EAH world.

[Raye of the Dead · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun read but not as good as I hoped it would be.

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was about as good as The Secret Diary of Apple White. It wasn't great but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever read either. There were a lot of inconsistencies between this book and the others in the After High Series which really bothered me as I was reading the story. Also the writing was really choppy again and the diary entries often interrupted the best part of the story and made it even choppier. I liked this story but it could have been so much better.

[TheCrazyFanvergent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ma se la Hale era così brava con questa saga perché dare tutti gli altri romanzi ad altre autrici che non sanno il worldbuilding generale? Poi la narrazione di questo libro era estremamente infantile (sì okay è una saga middle grade, ma gli altri libri - soprattutto quelli della Hale - erano più 'normali', qui invece sembrava di leggere un libro consigliato dai 7 anni in su)
Detto questo, Raven ti amo

[Darlalala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since I love everything Raven and Evil Queen, this book is okay. However, the writing style is not really my favorite.

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good to see Raven find more confidence in herself and stand up to her mother, the Evil Queen. These are fun little characters and such cute books.

[Rory · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good 😊

[Mikaela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kind of scary but really funny

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

As Raven Queen's desire to not follow in her mother's (the Evil Queen) footsteps is the central storyline to the whole EAH world, I'm glad to see one of the books, if even a short one, give some kind of focus to the main idea. But this is more of a short story really than anything else. SECRET DIARY brings EAH up to speed with MONSTER HIGH's diary series, but this isn't like DORK DIARIES or DIARY OF A WIMPY KID. The main story is in regular third person prose. The story is bookended (and the chapters separated) by diary entries from the character of Raven Queen. It's serviceable, but I'm waiting for a return (hopefully) of more full length novels like the first three written by Shannon Hale which would (again hopefully) continue this intriguing plotline further.

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun look at Raven Queen's continued story covering the week of spring break.

[Kendra Sitton · Rating 5 out of 5]

9 chapters. It was nice to read this to my girls.

[Molly Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful diary to read

[Aliza Heslop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Faybelle is so tricky. I can't belive this book. Its sooooooooooo Good!

[Shontel Oliver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daughter loved this book!

[Kayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was cute. (Said in a "Quinn from Daria" voice.) I know it's middle grade, and that's not what I usually read. That didn't bother me. The bad puns and lingo bothered me. It was not hexcellent. But the story was cute.