A review by bookishdaylight
A Curse For True Love by Stephanie Garber

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3.0

“ Being yours does not make you mine “

This was a bittersweet conclusion to the series even though I was quite disappointed with how it ended. 

I’m happy for the ending don’t get me wrong but there were some plot holes that needed to be answered. I’ve read the three different epilogues of the book and honestly that one epilogue from the Barnes and noble edition answered some questions than the whole book itself. It’s quite obvious that the next series will be connected to the world with the owl rate epilogue but I was still confused. 

For me this third book was very rushed since the last book should conclude and explain the vague details that was unexplained from the other books but sadly this didn’t. I had to search other theories regarding the curse, the apple and supposed kiss to understand the meaning of it all together. To be honest, the fan theories are actually good considering some were base from hints from the caraval trilogy. I just didn’t expect that I had to do my own research regarding those concerns itself.  

So here are my thoughts on those issues. I get that the curse gets twisted with meaning after some time but how can you explain the kiss between Eva and jacks? This was definitely the power of love but it was said that only those who do not love him get to live so I think from my understanding, when Donatella kissed Jacks, it broke the curse since it was supposed to be the one who doesn’t love him. So therefore when Eva and Jacks kissed, the curse was already broken by Donatella. 

So when it comes to the apple it said that he bites it to not be driven by his desire to what he actually wants to do which is kiss Eva but I think it has more meaning to it.  So Jack is a fate and it was said that fates don’t or can’t have the ability to fall in love so my guess it that he started to become human but he simply cannot turn to a human all of a sudden. I’ve also read that the apple is a magic object and although I cannot explain the color meanings but I’ve read somewhere that an apple can represent the power of immortality. I’m not saying that the apple itself represents immortality once bitten but kind of like a vessel. Since it was said jacks said that he no longer needs it so I am assuming that when he decided he no longer needed the apples, his immortality of being a fate will diminish and he becomes human. So that is why on the epilogue he was described as not quite human boy. 

Lastly I wished this was longer because I wanted more Jacks and Eva moments. All in all the best book in this trilogy was definitely tbona and I’m quite sad that this is the conclusion to their story. Hopefully I’ll get to see them  on some upcoming series.