A review by amelianotthepilot
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

4.5

Evangeline is now a princess married to the Prince! She's living in her own fairytale! But things arent all they seem, she's having memories that don't add up? Has she forgotten something? Jacks is accused of causing her memory loss but she can't help but feel like its all wrong.
Jacks only wants to protect Evangeline so once and for all he decided to burn his love heart (everyone has two heart apparently).  He goes to burn it in the Phoenix Tree to be free of his feelings for her but Evangeline already happens to be there and kisses Jacks to break her curse. It works and she is now herself again and curse free but Apollo kidnaps her. Apollo is heartbroken and if he can't have her no one can and decides to be more strong and macho by sacrificing Evangeline to the Tree of Souls so he can become immortal. Instead, since Apollo loves himself most the tree kills Apollo. 

We also find out Aurora Valor was in love with Jacks and cursed him with the ballad of archer and fox and with his true love death kiss. But also the rules of the true love kiss weren't that his true love would die but that only girls who would never love him would survive his kisses.


This was still a fun silly little fantasy with curses and true loves but it didn't hit the same. It didn't seem as high stakes as the others, there wasn't as much going on and the ending was eh. I think because it didn't have that surprise factor, the reader sorta knew where the story was going the whole time. Also we never reallllly found out why Jacks eats apples. I still have a lot of questions regarding the Fates and how they ?function? I guess. The whole world is such a fascinating story and I hope she continues to explore new stories and do more world building with the Fates and this fun little fantasy world.

not gonna lie when I say I picked these up for the beautiful (UK) covers but stayed for the dumb tropes
that had me kicking my feet and giggling all the way through  10/10