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Ever After High: The Secret Diary of Raven Queen
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.
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.
160 pages, Hardcover
Published January 10, 2017
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February 3, 2017
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.
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.
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January 16, 2026The Secret Diary of Raven Queen: Ever After High
Diary Entry: Baba Yaga has given the assignment that over Spring Break they have to write down all the spells they do and when they get back they’ll look at the results and learn how to make the spells better or stronger. She gives Raven 2 journals because she’s expected to do more being the daughter of the Evil Queen. Raven really doesn’t want to do any. So, she’s decided to turn the 2nd diary into a journal. Cerise’s family has invited her and madeline to her house in the Dark Woods. This means a lot to Raven because she didn’t have friends growing up (being the Evil Queen’s daughter and all). But then Raven decides to go home because her dad’s invited her to the Gallant Princes on White Horses race and she gets to sit in the royal box. He’s invitd her to sit next to him (which he’s never done before).
Chapter 1: Faybelle sneaks up to the attic tower to speak to the Evil Queen. The Evil Queen is disappointed that she’s alone and has brought her nothing. She starts in on her favorite rant about how its time Raven turned evil and how Faybelle needs to help her help Raven discover who she really is. She’s picked out a spell from a “borrowed” book given to her by Faybelle to bring out the evil in a person, but Faybelle points out its for use on trolls only. The Queen just laughs and says it wouldn’t dare not work for her.
Faybelle finds Raven in the Castleteria and does a spell to make her homework vanish. (There was just an announcement made to the Villian kids to turn in ther assignments early because Mr. Bad wolf would be leaving early). Maddie tells her to go backwards and Raven remembers going to the cauldron room and rushes there to see if that’s where she left her throne work. Faybelle then sneaks into Raven’s room, and leaves a white box on her bed. Faybelle then makes Raven’s throne-work reappear. Raven finds a pink throne-cake inside the box and a message that says EAT ME and thinks its from either Apple (whose left) or Maddie. As she eats the sweet, she gets dizzy and thinks it’s a sugar rush. When it leaves, she goes outside to get in her carriage.
Diary Entry: That night Raven feels wishy washy and strange. She and her dad catch up but messengers keep interrupting him with issues that have come up. Raven lets out a troll like burp. They have a laugh over it. Raven isn’t sure where her frustration came from and her dad promises they’ll spend time the next day.
Chater 2: Since Raven’s father is busy the next day, he’s set aside time for her that evening. No footmen allowed. Raven wants to throw a party and make brambleberry pie but Cook says she’ll be too busy. Not discouraged Raven says that maybe she can make the recipe herself. While getting the ingredients together, she trips and pans go everywhere. Cook comments she’s like a troll let loose in her kitchen. They plan a menu but then Cook’s son’s come in and Raven offers to watch them while she gets more eggs. While shelling peas, Raven gets impatient and leaves. Feeling bad that she’s putting more work on Cook, she goes to the hen house. But then she comes right back to find out the twins have messed up the kitchen. Raven tries to clean up but makes the mess worse. So, she does another spell to repair the damage and bake a cake but it turns to a towering, mountain, of cake crumbs.
Diary Entry: Cook tells Raven she’s a bit like her mother in the kitchen. Raven wonders if this is true. She knows Apple would tell her she could *never ever* be that bad. So, Raven decides to speak with her mother to bring her out of her funk.
Chapter 3: The Evil Queen tries to pray and see if Raven feels more evil. She doesn’t sense any darkness. So, she asks if she feels trollish. Raven gets fed up with all her mothers talk of how she’ll be evil soon one day and leaves her room. The Queen is satisfied seeing purple sparks shot from her daughters wrist. Raven starts to set up her father’s special dinner but gets a note from him that he won’t be there that night or during her visit. There’s been an emergency of Jack and Jill falling down a hill. He says she can go to the horse races with Ooglot or she can go with her friend with the red cape. Raven gets so angry she shatters a plate. She then calls Cerise and tells them she’ll be joining them.
Diary Entry: Raven likes the way Cerise’s house smells like pine and cinnamon buns. There’s an awkward moment when Mr. Badwolf makes a joke and Raven wonders if Maddie knows he’s a wolf, but then Maddie says the narrator told her. There with her friends, Raven is sure she’ll feel better the next day.
Chapter 4: The next day, Maddie Cerise, and Raven have a picnic. Maddy notices that Raven’s skin is bumpy and her nails are long. Maddie says that Raven seems off-center and asks has she been under any bridges. There’s something dark and mysterious lurking from beneath her. Raven feels that weird feeling and wonders if Maddie’s sensing evil. Raven offers to help Mr. Bad Wolf deliver pies to the Hoods. In Hoods Hollow, Mr. Badwolf starts to snatch pies off window sills. Raven starts to put the pies back as fast as he takes them. he persimmons on the tree were glistening. They’d been contaminated by ogre sweat. When digested, an ogre’s sweat causes painful, itchy blisters. He took the persimmon pies to protect the Hoods. Raven can’t believe what she’d almost did.
Diary Entry: Mr. Bad Wolf is chill about Raven’s mistake even tho she’s embarrassed for judging him. He compliments her on getting an A on her throne work and says She was born to be evil. She frowns and turns quiet and he comments that part of being a villain is being moody and sullen. She tells him she’s conflicted. She wants to do good in his class but at the same time she doesn’t. He takes this to mean she wants to be a villain after all and lets out a howl. He says next semester he expects her to explore her evil destiny.
Chapter 5: Maddie’s got a present for the Bad Wolves (a cherry tea pot with a black checkered pattern). She spots a small flower with shimmery purple wings but decides its too small. She then tries to make the flower bigger and
Diary Entry: We see that her magic has back fired again. The flower turns into thousands of fire breathing ants. Red just says she was thoughtful to bring them in her favorite color and Maddie invites them all to the picnic. Raven wonders what the heck is going on with her magic.
Chapter 6: After they eat, Cerise and Raven have a race. Raven knows Cerise will probably win but she knows she can’t lose and she wins. Mr. Bad Wolf says she reminds him so much of her mom. They went to school together and her mom would use any means necessary to win. If it it meant doing something like tripping someone up. Raven tries to think if she tripped Cerise up. She did stumble. She can’t remember.
Diary Entry: Raven sits under a wooden bridge thinking about all the ways her magic has gone wrong. Still she still feels good. She thinks about how she doesn’t want to be evil and maybe should should just live there under the bridge. But why is she thinking of living under a bridge? She tells her friends she feels different. Maddie advises doing a ront-flip-full-twist.
Chapter 7: Raven says she’ll just combat the evil by just doing good deeds. Raven sees some raspberries and decides to make jam. Only she tracks it all over the floor (they decide to make it with her feet). The throne cakes they make reminds her of the one in her room and she means to Bad Wolf and Maddie that it tasted like all her favorite foods. She thanks Maddie but she says it wasn’t her. But then she remembers Faybelle was by Raven’s door with a white box.
Diary Entry Mr. Bad Wolf says the throne cakes may have been cursed. Then it all starts to come together. This reeks of her mom. The card EAT ME reminds her of the cards her mother use to put in her nursery rhyme school snack bag. Her mother and Faybelle must be working together to turn her wicked.
Chapter 8: Mr. Bad Wolf says he knows of an obscure curse that was designed to ignite evil, but it only works fully if the recipient possesses true evil in their core. Only its meant for trolls. He says that trolls often smell like broccoli and old coffee. But Maddie (sentences ago) said that’s what Raven’s been smelling like. Cerise points out she’s had bugs in her hands and she’s been grumpy. Mr. Bad Wolf says the curse is in a old book locked away in the Valt of Lost Tales. No one can get it. No one that is except the Evil Queen. In the end, Raven decides to go home and talk to her dad.
Diary Entry: Raven’s dad reminds her of all the good she’s done and says it’s ridiculous that she thinks she’s turning evil. He reminds her that all kids are a mixture of their parents. ome kids take after their mother more, some take after their father more, some kids have equal doses of both parents, and some are completely unique. He said that good people make mistakes and sometimes do things they wish they hadn’t, but that’s okay. It’s what’s in her heart that counts.If she believes in herself one hundred percent, no evil spell can make her into something she’s not. Plus, in order for that curse to work, she would’ve had to be evil in her core. She wants to confront her mom, but her dad invites her to the races.
At school, Raven has started to notice her nails and toe nails have a green tint. She confronts Faybelle and tells her she deserves more than to be just her mother’s messenger. She asks did Faybelle know about the book and she says maybe. Faybelle asks if she’s going to tell on her and Raven says no but she might want to stay away from her mother. She doesn’t know what she’s fooling with. Faybelle just nods and says thanks.
Headmaster Grimm lets her talk to her mother. At first, she plays along with her mother like she’s turning evil. Then she asks for the spell book and says she wants to do more. Her mother tries to trick her into touching the glass to free her but Raven says she refuses to share. She’s the future Evil Queen and she’ll be freed when *she* says so. She reverses the spell put on herself. She tells her mom not her best work. The curse didn’t work on her. She tells her she needs to accept she’s not like her and she’s returning the book. The Queen is impressed with her confidence.
Diary Entry: Apple returns. Raven gives her a gift (some of the jam). She explains that she *did* wash her feet and Maddie helped her. Apple gives her a throne cake in a white box and is confused when Apple doesn’t eat it (leaving Raven to have a lot to explain to her)
Rating: 5 Nothing new. Nothing different. Raven’s still trying to prove that she’s not like her mom. Her mom still trying to push her to be more like her. I think the story line is just getting repetitive. Tho I do get it.
Diary Entry: Baba Yaga has given the assignment that over Spring Break they have to write down all the spells they do and when they get back they’ll look at the results and learn how to make the spells better or stronger. She gives Raven 2 journals because she’s expected to do more being the daughter of the Evil Queen. Raven really doesn’t want to do any. So, she’s decided to turn the 2nd diary into a journal. Cerise’s family has invited her and madeline to her house in the Dark Woods. This means a lot to Raven because she didn’t have friends growing up (being the Evil Queen’s daughter and all). But then Raven decides to go home because her dad’s invited her to the Gallant Princes on White Horses race and she gets to sit in the royal box. He’s invitd her to sit next to him (which he’s never done before).
Chapter 1: Faybelle sneaks up to the attic tower to speak to the Evil Queen. The Evil Queen is disappointed that she’s alone and has brought her nothing. She starts in on her favorite rant about how its time Raven turned evil and how Faybelle needs to help her help Raven discover who she really is. She’s picked out a spell from a “borrowed” book given to her by Faybelle to bring out the evil in a person, but Faybelle points out its for use on trolls only. The Queen just laughs and says it wouldn’t dare not work for her.
Faybelle finds Raven in the Castleteria and does a spell to make her homework vanish. (There was just an announcement made to the Villian kids to turn in ther assignments early because Mr. Bad wolf would be leaving early). Maddie tells her to go backwards and Raven remembers going to the cauldron room and rushes there to see if that’s where she left her throne work. Faybelle then sneaks into Raven’s room, and leaves a white box on her bed. Faybelle then makes Raven’s throne-work reappear. Raven finds a pink throne-cake inside the box and a message that says EAT ME and thinks its from either Apple (whose left) or Maddie. As she eats the sweet, she gets dizzy and thinks it’s a sugar rush. When it leaves, she goes outside to get in her carriage.
Diary Entry: That night Raven feels wishy washy and strange. She and her dad catch up but messengers keep interrupting him with issues that have come up. Raven lets out a troll like burp. They have a laugh over it. Raven isn’t sure where her frustration came from and her dad promises they’ll spend time the next day.
Chater 2: Since Raven’s father is busy the next day, he’s set aside time for her that evening. No footmen allowed. Raven wants to throw a party and make brambleberry pie but Cook says she’ll be too busy. Not discouraged Raven says that maybe she can make the recipe herself. While getting the ingredients together, she trips and pans go everywhere. Cook comments she’s like a troll let loose in her kitchen. They plan a menu but then Cook’s son’s come in and Raven offers to watch them while she gets more eggs. While shelling peas, Raven gets impatient and leaves. Feeling bad that she’s putting more work on Cook, she goes to the hen house. But then she comes right back to find out the twins have messed up the kitchen. Raven tries to clean up but makes the mess worse. So, she does another spell to repair the damage and bake a cake but it turns to a towering, mountain, of cake crumbs.
Diary Entry: Cook tells Raven she’s a bit like her mother in the kitchen. Raven wonders if this is true. She knows Apple would tell her she could *never ever* be that bad. So, Raven decides to speak with her mother to bring her out of her funk.
Chapter 3: The Evil Queen tries to pray and see if Raven feels more evil. She doesn’t sense any darkness. So, she asks if she feels trollish. Raven gets fed up with all her mothers talk of how she’ll be evil soon one day and leaves her room. The Queen is satisfied seeing purple sparks shot from her daughters wrist. Raven starts to set up her father’s special dinner but gets a note from him that he won’t be there that night or during her visit. There’s been an emergency of Jack and Jill falling down a hill. He says she can go to the horse races with Ooglot or she can go with her friend with the red cape. Raven gets so angry she shatters a plate. She then calls Cerise and tells them she’ll be joining them.
Diary Entry: Raven likes the way Cerise’s house smells like pine and cinnamon buns. There’s an awkward moment when Mr. Badwolf makes a joke and Raven wonders if Maddie knows he’s a wolf, but then Maddie says the narrator told her. There with her friends, Raven is sure she’ll feel better the next day.
Chapter 4: The next day, Maddie Cerise, and Raven have a picnic. Maddy notices that Raven’s skin is bumpy and her nails are long. Maddie says that Raven seems off-center and asks has she been under any bridges. There’s something dark and mysterious lurking from beneath her. Raven feels that weird feeling and wonders if Maddie’s sensing evil. Raven offers to help Mr. Bad Wolf deliver pies to the Hoods. In Hoods Hollow, Mr. Badwolf starts to snatch pies off window sills. Raven starts to put the pies back as fast as he takes them. he persimmons on the tree were glistening. They’d been contaminated by ogre sweat. When digested, an ogre’s sweat causes painful, itchy blisters. He took the persimmon pies to protect the Hoods. Raven can’t believe what she’d almost did.
Diary Entry: Mr. Bad Wolf is chill about Raven’s mistake even tho she’s embarrassed for judging him. He compliments her on getting an A on her throne work and says She was born to be evil. She frowns and turns quiet and he comments that part of being a villain is being moody and sullen. She tells him she’s conflicted. She wants to do good in his class but at the same time she doesn’t. He takes this to mean she wants to be a villain after all and lets out a howl. He says next semester he expects her to explore her evil destiny.
Chapter 5: Maddie’s got a present for the Bad Wolves (a cherry tea pot with a black checkered pattern). She spots a small flower with shimmery purple wings but decides its too small. She then tries to make the flower bigger and
Diary Entry: We see that her magic has back fired again. The flower turns into thousands of fire breathing ants. Red just says she was thoughtful to bring them in her favorite color and Maddie invites them all to the picnic. Raven wonders what the heck is going on with her magic.
Chapter 6: After they eat, Cerise and Raven have a race. Raven knows Cerise will probably win but she knows she can’t lose and she wins. Mr. Bad Wolf says she reminds him so much of her mom. They went to school together and her mom would use any means necessary to win. If it it meant doing something like tripping someone up. Raven tries to think if she tripped Cerise up. She did stumble. She can’t remember.
Diary Entry: Raven sits under a wooden bridge thinking about all the ways her magic has gone wrong. Still she still feels good. She thinks about how she doesn’t want to be evil and maybe should should just live there under the bridge. But why is she thinking of living under a bridge? She tells her friends she feels different. Maddie advises doing a ront-flip-full-twist.
Chapter 7: Raven says she’ll just combat the evil by just doing good deeds. Raven sees some raspberries and decides to make jam. Only she tracks it all over the floor (they decide to make it with her feet). The throne cakes they make reminds her of the one in her room and she means to Bad Wolf and Maddie that it tasted like all her favorite foods. She thanks Maddie but she says it wasn’t her. But then she remembers Faybelle was by Raven’s door with a white box.
Diary Entry Mr. Bad Wolf says the throne cakes may have been cursed. Then it all starts to come together. This reeks of her mom. The card EAT ME reminds her of the cards her mother use to put in her nursery rhyme school snack bag. Her mother and Faybelle must be working together to turn her wicked.
Chapter 8: Mr. Bad Wolf says he knows of an obscure curse that was designed to ignite evil, but it only works fully if the recipient possesses true evil in their core. Only its meant for trolls. He says that trolls often smell like broccoli and old coffee. But Maddie (sentences ago) said that’s what Raven’s been smelling like. Cerise points out she’s had bugs in her hands and she’s been grumpy. Mr. Bad Wolf says the curse is in a old book locked away in the Valt of Lost Tales. No one can get it. No one that is except the Evil Queen. In the end, Raven decides to go home and talk to her dad.
Diary Entry: Raven’s dad reminds her of all the good she’s done and says it’s ridiculous that she thinks she’s turning evil. He reminds her that all kids are a mixture of their parents. ome kids take after their mother more, some take after their father more, some kids have equal doses of both parents, and some are completely unique. He said that good people make mistakes and sometimes do things they wish they hadn’t, but that’s okay. It’s what’s in her heart that counts.If she believes in herself one hundred percent, no evil spell can make her into something she’s not. Plus, in order for that curse to work, she would’ve had to be evil in her core. She wants to confront her mom, but her dad invites her to the races.
At school, Raven has started to notice her nails and toe nails have a green tint. She confronts Faybelle and tells her she deserves more than to be just her mother’s messenger. She asks did Faybelle know about the book and she says maybe. Faybelle asks if she’s going to tell on her and Raven says no but she might want to stay away from her mother. She doesn’t know what she’s fooling with. Faybelle just nods and says thanks.
Headmaster Grimm lets her talk to her mother. At first, she plays along with her mother like she’s turning evil. Then she asks for the spell book and says she wants to do more. Her mother tries to trick her into touching the glass to free her but Raven says she refuses to share. She’s the future Evil Queen and she’ll be freed when *she* says so. She reverses the spell put on herself. She tells her mom not her best work. The curse didn’t work on her. She tells her she needs to accept she’s not like her and she’s returning the book. The Queen is impressed with her confidence.
Diary Entry: Apple returns. Raven gives her a gift (some of the jam). She explains that she *did* wash her feet and Maddie helped her. Apple gives her a throne cake in a white box and is confused when Apple doesn’t eat it (leaving Raven to have a lot to explain to her)
Rating: 5 Nothing new. Nothing different. Raven’s still trying to prove that she’s not like her mom. Her mom still trying to push her to be more like her. I think the story line is just getting repetitive. Tho I do get it.
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June 20, 2018
This was a fun read but not as good as I hoped it would be.
July 23, 2017
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.
October 22, 2023
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)
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Detto questo, Raven ti amo
February 7, 2026
I thought this be more of a diary than a small story. dont get me wrong I enjoyed the story. but I had wished it be more like a diary where you would see scribbles pictures like a scrapbook feel. though I still enjoyed it.
July 15, 2017
Since I love everything Raven and Evil Queen, this book is okay. However, the writing style is not really my favorite.
August 14, 2017
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.
September 1, 2018
Good 😊
February 24, 2021
Kind of scary but really funny
March 8, 2017
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.
February 24, 2017
A fun look at Raven Queen's continued story covering the week of spring break.
December 31, 2022
9 chapters. It was nice to read this to my girls.
March 24, 2017
A wonderful diary to read
April 8, 2017
Faybelle is so tricky. I can't belive this book. Its sooooooooooo Good!
April 10, 2017
Daughter loved this book!
May 7, 2017
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.
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