A Curse for True Love
Ratings170
Average rating3.9
Even though I absolutely loathe the memory loss and miscommunication trope, I really loved the book. I read this book over a span of couple of weeks as I had my exams and by the time I finished it, I felt like I had grown out of it and that made me really really sad. I had enjoyed and swooned over all her books, and I didn't want that phase to end at all. Sometimes fantasy books make you realise how bleak your reality is. Knowing that it is not real, and the world does not exist, has started to make me really upset lol. I used to read these books for escapism but I kind of want to take a break from this genre now and build my own life.
Me parece un broche de oro para esta magnífica historia. No pierde la esencia de preguntarte constantemente qué está pasando y te atrapa. Cuando yo tenía este libro en mis manos, me sumergía en él. Ahora, cargo con la maldición de vivir enamorada de una sabandija comemanzanas que no existe. Este libro me ha robado el corazón y me ha hecho soltar alguna lagrimita.
Esta saga llegó a mí por pura casualidad y ¡qué bonitas son las casualidades a veces!
Una pequeña mención a la traductora, Eva, sin la cual esta historia no me hubiera llegado nunca en mi lengua materna.
Omg i loved this book sm!!!. I literally wanted to cry with just the thought of Apollo killing Evangeline. They got their happily ever after, i literally can't get over this bookk..... The entire series is just one of d best series i ever read. Idek why i delayed in reading this series. Now i cant totally understand the hype about Jacks.
It felt kinda quick, left many questions about the other characters, idk, but I liked it more than Finale from Caraval. I definitely love this series more than Caraval 💁🏻♀️
Contains spoilers
Still love the characters but something didn’t hit for me in A Curse For True Love.
The plot execution for A Curse For True Love was my least favourite out of the entire trilogy, and this wasn’t because the plot idea was bad but rather the story didn’t flow between events for me, it felt pieced together by plot points and sometimes I felt like the events were told from the wrong characters POVS. I still enjoyed my time when reading, the world and characters held my attention and kept me interested.
The ending between the characters is sweet but fell flat, which replicates exactly how I felt during the end scene of the Caraval trilogy between Legend and Tella.
I really wanted to feel more during Jacks and Evangeline’s encounter at the phoenix tree. The entire trilogy was leading up to this moment, I wanted my heart to break and then be put back together but this didn’t happen. Don’t get me wrong it was a nice ending but the build up to this moment was 3 books long, this moment needed to be longer and more detailed.
I did appreciate the POVS from Apollo but I would have rathered more POVS from Jacks. More of his internal struggles and turmoil. I wanted to read the scene from his POV when he gave his heart away, what he was thinking, feeling and his reasonings. This is exactly where the author could have broken my heart. Instead it was told second hand from other characters, missing out on a massive opportunity to evoke readers emotions.
I am looking forward to reading more books from this author and watching her writing grow. Overall I love her ideas, characters and worlds. Can’t wait to see what she does next.
Vibes waren schon gut, aber es ist nicht so viel passiert und natürlich ist es immer ein bisschen nervig wenn der main character sich an nichts erinnnert
Me genera algo ese berraco final, ¿Que es? Ni idea pero algo hace dentro de mi.
La trilogia me parece buena, no es lo mejor del mundo, ni la quinta maravilla pero es bueno y entretenido, aunque siii tiene momentos donde se pone lento y no necesito saber pero bueno, como que lo necesito saber nada de Apolo. Apolo cae mal, muy mal.
well that was bad the books are super fast paced and somehow enjoyable to read, but not good in any way shape or formit was so fucking cringe 80% of the time :cringe:jacks is so fucking edgy he actually surpassed me when i was 13also again with that immortal hundreds of year old grown man somehow falls in love with a child, a 17 year old girl. lol yippie (thats a crime) also i love the fact that garber just forgor about all the side charas. is lala going to get with castor? who knows. what happened to lucien? who knows. what happened to marisol? who knows. why the fuck was the 17 year old able to kiss the grown man without dying? who fuckin knows it also felt like 20% of the book was eve remembering shit. give a brief summary of what she remembered, dont completely copy paste what happened in previous books... it just bloats
I realised I don't like how Stephanie ends her trilogies because, well, she doesn't. The whole trilogy could have been made into a duology; Apollo was brought back with a ton of determination that he just chucks out the window. Aurora was just a plot point and I wanted to know more about Dane/LaLa. And despite it being the final book, it was the shortest and left a lot to ask for.
The redeeming feature was that they finally ended up together.
But I have so many questions: how did they even kiss? What about the apples? What about the rest of the Valors???
I hope things weren't left so open to push out another trilogy in the Caraval universe, though if she did I would still shamelessly read it.
Rating: 3.5 ????????????????????
3.5
liked this more than i thought i would after being a little disappointed in the second one. i actually enjoyed having apollo's pov because he read as a comical villain to me
3 point something. This was good. Apollo dying after her drank from the tree of souls because he's the person he loves the most was the best part
it's the way the villain ACTUALLY mysteriously strolled out of the dark, SLOW CLAPPING at one point. omfg
(2.75)
Yeah, we're back to the same rating as the first book. Too many plot holes and characters who were relevant to the story yet just disappeared and never came back. The ending was underwhelming as well.
Sublime, magnífico, mágico, lo amo.
Me encantaría decir que voy a hacer una reseña sin spoiler, pero estaría mintiendo porque ni me encantaría porque qué haces que no te lo has leído aún (no me encantaría) y porque no pienso hacerla sin spoilers. Hemos venido a guerra.
Primero, lo que más odio de este libro es el pov de Apollo porque son capítulos que podrían haber sido de Jacks (te amo Jacks, nunca ningún hombre estará a tu altura, simplemente cualquier hombre se le queda en la suela). Y al mismo tiempo me gustan esos capítulos porque entendemos mejor la historia, aunque creo que es obviamente una forma de la autora de contarnos la historia de lo que está pasando a espaldas de Jacks y Evangeline que no habría sabido cómo contarnos de otra forma. Ahora bien, solo hay un momento más feliz para mí en el libro que va antes de la muerte de Apollo (está muy bien muerto, pero Wolfric me hiciste sufrir por un momento -they almost got me in the first half-), y ese momento más feliz aún que la muerte de Apollo es cuando Jacks y Eva por fin se besan. Fuegos artificiales explotando en mi cabeza.
Eso sí, yo creo que la maldición de Jacks la rompió Donatella y que después de eso no está maldito, pero no puedo decirlo con seguridad porque cuando va a besar a Eva (que lleva el brazalete este de Vengeance) se dobla de dolor. Claro que por lo que sabemos afecta a la gente que ‘pretende' hacer daño al portador. Así que Jacks pretendía hacerle daño, no es como que le fuera a hacer daño. Eso es lo que me lleva a pensar que no está maldito.
También quiero saber cómo van a continuar Eva y Jacks, porque Jacks es inmortal pero Eva no, por lo que Eva llegará algún momento que muera por causas naturales. ¿Puede ser que Jacks se vuelva humano o Eva inmortal? Sinceramente me gustaría más lo primero, así que quiero saber qué pasa.
Tampoco creo que deje de escribir sobre este universo Stephanie Garber (ni quiero que lo haga), porque aún no sabemos que pasa con Castor y LaLa, yo creo que va a haber otra serie que trate de ellos. Aunque no creo que me pueda gustar más que estos libros de Jacks, básicamente porque me gustó Jacks desde que en el segundo libro se nos presenta en un carruaje.
Pero bueno, en resumen que me ha encantado el libro, Evangeline me parece una maravillosa protagonista sinceramente, no se me hace pesada lo cual aprecio porque hay muchas que digo por favor cállate ya. Me encanta que se gire y le pegue a Apollo cuando la toca en la posada (merecidísimo). Y Jacks me puede pedir lo que quiera la verdad, yo no conozco la palabra no cuando se trata de él.
3.5 stars! This time not rounded to 4, sadly! It was alright and I absolutely adored the world and Jacks. But it felt a bit too whimsy and a tad young for me at times.
I loved book 2, but I felt this one was lacking something. Ahhh I hope you love it tho. It is overall a very solid series!
3.5 stars! This time not rounded to 4, sadly! It was alright and I absolutely adored the world and Jacks. But it felt a bit too whimsy and a tad young for me at times.
I loved book 2, but I felt this one was lacking something. Ahhh I hope you love it tho. It is overall a very solid series!
Garber delivered GARBAGE and that's on god
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This was outright awful. To have majority of the content be about a literally insane/abusive man was a choice that I feel like needs to be left for Jennifer L Armentrout.