The Excalibur Curse

"I have been dreading this review. So much so it has been a month since I finished The Curse. If you are looking for a book to lift your spirits because the second one let you down go ahead and turn back now. Fantasize about what you think happened and I promise you will be happier for it. To sum up this series 'Leaves much to be desired'. I am dumbfounded. There was a love triangle... kind of.... but this book almost turned into a love square.... maybe... I'm not sure. A new love interest/not love interest appeared out of nowhere... or not out of nowhere. If you are confused well so am I. Guinevere is with someone who we all know as a friend then for a split second she wants to make out with them. There was no warning and I was left thinking I might have misread. I'm honestly still not sure. Moving on. I'm just upset that the story took such a turn. I felt like Characters weren't given the respect they deserved. This is the point where I don't care anymore because I'm mad so I'll just post the notes I wrote while reading. The truth wine might have been the greatest thing ever added to this series. Almost had that Acotar found family feeling but it got lost along with the plot. Small spoiler but important people like Mordred just wasn't important anymore. Four hours left with the book I was pretty much done. Guinevere spends two books shuffling around and then in the third one she is all of the sudden an activist for women's rights. I don't want to agree with the king but he gets exasperated by Guinevere and all I have to say is "same". This book is so disconnected from reality. The beginning felt like a great start and a make-up from the book two. But it was all a deception. Hence the name. Quote and about the only part I enjoyed. "It's not wine it's a potion." "Oh no what's going to happen to me? Am I going to turn into an animal or ...... a man." Hahahaha"

"I am very upset at the end to this series. Several things made no sense in the final book. A romance was created out of thin air and the only true romance Guinevere ever really has is left hopeless in the final pages. If the whole series was about her finding herself, leave her single or with my ship (the only one she's had an actual relationship with!) Not everything has to be romance but it was established in the first book. I still loved it but it seemed like an odd choice in many ways."

"This series is excellent. Though the third book is not my favourite, every book in the series is the type that I continued to think on even days after I'd finished. I missed lancelot for a good portion of the book and I was tired of Guenivere in the middle bit when she was too much in her own head. But the ending is exactly right and that is no easy feat."

"4.5 stars — I love Kiersten White’s writing, I just wish this had leaned even harder into it’s queerness."

"The ending ruined the entire trilogy for me but overall I enjoyed the experience."