Naomi Speakman's Reviews > A Curse for True Love

** spoiler alert ** Having to wait an entire year for Jacks to punch Apollo is already killing me.

Update: 28th October 23
*chef’s kiss* It feels damn good to be right.

This book is exquisite. Magical. Enchanting. Heartbreaking. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with my life now that Jacks’s and Evangeline’s story is over. I’m just so glad I was part of the hype surrounding this trilogy because it lived up to every single expectation.

I wish I could give this all the stars in the universe. Stephanie has quickly become a favourite author of mine since picking up OUABH when it came out. I was so enthralled by Jacks I read Caraval after. But Stephanie’s writing truly is something else. For example: ‘It never snowed in Valenda, and never as thick as this, as if the world were a cake and the snow was dollops of thick white frosting,’ and ‘Happiness swirled through the air like pollen,’ and all the elaborate descriptions of gowns and forests and castles. Her writing draws you in and I can’t get enough of it.

I am so lost now. I’m having that end-of-series withdrawal. All through reading I couldn’t wait to find out what happened but I so wasn’t ready to let go of this story. I’m still not.

This book broke me in so many ways. It made me feel absolutely everything.

A moment that had me crying screaming throwing up?

‘Then break me, Jacks.’

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ALL THE STARS