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A Curse for True Love
448 pages
A swoony, candy-colored fairy tale laced with poison, where true love is fought for with teeth and claws.
What it feels like
Reading this finale feels like stepping into a beautifully spun sugar-glass castle that is slowly cracking under the weight of dark magic. The atmosphere is steeped in a decadent, poisoned whimsy, balancing the breathless tension of a thriller with the desperate yearning of a star-crossed romance. The prose is lush and sensory, painting a world of cursed apples, bleeding hearts, and treacherous bargains. The emotional journey is a rollercoaster of frustration and swoon-worthy devotion, driven by the agonizing ache of lost memories and the fierce fight to reclaim them. It moves at a brisk, addictive pace, pulling the reader through a labyrinth of deceit toward a deeply satisfying, hard-won happily ever after. This is catnip for anyone who loves morally gray tricksters, fairy-tale aesthetics, and love stories that demand absolute sacrifice.
- Mood
- enchanting
- bittersweet
- tense
- swoony
- Tone
- romantic
- whimsical
- dramatic
- earnest
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the cost of happily ever after · memory and identity · destiny versus choice · toxic versus true love · sacrifice
- The writing
- Lush, sensory, and steeped in fairy-tale whimsy with a candy-coated but slightly poisoned edge.
- The arc
- The journey moves from disorienting false comfort through desperate yearning and heartbreak to a hard-won, sweeping romantic resolution.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love morally gray love interests, star-crossed romance, and decadent, magical worlds where love is a literal force of nature.
Content notes
- memory loss
- gaslighting
- emotional manipulation
- fantasy violence
- blood
About the book
Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.
Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out... but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.
Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.
Description from Open Library.
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