Blurb:
Damsel meets A Heart in a Body in the World in this incisive and lyrical feminist fairy tale about a princess determined to save her sisters from a curse, even if it means allying herself with the very witch who cast it.
The Princesses of Ever are beloved by the kingdom and their father, the King. They are cherished, admired.
Cursed.
Jane, Alice, Nora, Grace, and Eden carry the burden of being punished for a crime they did not commit, or even know about. They are each cursed to be Without one essential thing—the ability to eat, sleep, love, remember, or hope. And their mother, the Queen, is imprisoned, frozen in time in an unbreakable glass box.
But when Eden’s curse sets in on her thirteenth birthday, the princesses are given the opportunity to break the curse, preventing it from becoming a True Spell and dooming the princesses for life. To do this, they must confront the one who cast the spell—Reagan, a young witch who might not be the villain they thought—as well as the wickedness plaguing their own kingdom…and family.
Told through the eyes of Reagan and Jane—the witch and the bewitched—this insightful twist of a fairy tale explores power in a patriarchal kingdom not unlike our own.
My review:
“Don’t Judge a book by its cover” I never believed in this line until I read this book “Ever Cursed” by Corey Ann Haydu. It has one of the beautiful covers I have come across. I was so intrigued by the title but was hugely disappointed by the story.
The writing style was simple and not interesting. There was no character development for any characters in the book. I don’t feel connected to any of them. The reason for the curse is worthy and predictable but the persons who were cursed makes no sense. The plot is about sexual assault which was strong but hadn’t delivered properly.
The book is filled with weak characters. I have read books with strong female characters with “ZERO POWERS”. This book is filled with WITCHES who are weak and made decisions which had no sense at all. The author mentioned a witch with “strongest and special magic” who can’t even defend herself in front of a human. This happened not only with one witch but over two generations of witches.
Reagan, the witch who cursed the princess Jane, said at the near end of the book “We’re goddamn witches. Don’t tell us we can’t”. That’s what I was thinking throughout the book “You are a goddamn witch, then why can’t you defend yourself”. I’m not surprised by the twist, it made me dislike the book even more. Overall I don’t like this book in any aspects.
Deepireads 