Characterizations are ripped apart into cardboard cut-outs and the magic that led me to ADORE the other books was totally missing from here.

but then came back a few months later with a totally different viewpoint than what it had originally started as and like I DON'T LIKE THAT!?!? The consistency from the other books is erased by the halfway point. The way this is written feels like the author wrote the first third of the book directly after the others. ( except for ONE but that's a point for later down. Relationships are a joke all around and don't even make sense? Questions are 'answered' in the way of someone taking a sit-down and listening to a podcast of the news for the last 10 years in a chipmunk voice you can barely decipher. The writing is still mostly-decent but barely holds together the shabby attempts at plot and finalization. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? everything was going so well in the other books? My heart literally HURTS from the absolute disrespect this showed to all the characters who became paste-in plot devices instead of the living, breathing portrayals of the first two books. This book took the excellence from the other two and decided to throw it in the garbage and I'm just sitting here like: Hello all and welcome to me screaming about how utterly wrecked I am from disappointment and let-down expectations. 'Did you really think a sword could save anyone? Swords do not save. Guinevere has been a changeling, a witch, a queen-but what does it mean to be just a girl? To undo the mistakes of the past.even if it means destroying herself. Guinevere is determined to set things right, whatever the cost.

When Guinevere makes an agonizing discovery about who she is and how she came to be, she finds herself with an impossible choice: fix a terrible crime, or help prevent war. Vowing to unravel the truth of her past with or without Merlin’s help, Guinevere joins forces with the sorceress Morgana and her son, Mordred-and faces the confusing, forbidden feelings she still harbors for him. But the greatest danger isn’t what lies ahead of Guinevere-it’s what’s been buried inside her. Behind her are Lancelot, trapped on the other side of the magical barrier they created to protect Camelot, and Arthur, who has been led away from his kingdom, chasing after false promises.

While journeying north toward the Dark Queen, Guinevere falls into the hands of her enemies. The gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Arthurian fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White finds Guinevere questioning everything-friends and enemies, good and evil, and, most of all, herself.

The Excalibur Curse by Kiersten White