"We should all endeavor to be awed once a day"
Have you seen these TikTok Challenges to determine your TBR and one of the popular challenges is to find a blurb from your favourite author on a new book?
Well, I found out that Meg Shaffer loved "A Curse for the Homesick" and that was all I needed to know. How lucky was I to be approved for this title? Thank you so much. I went into this already feeling as if this would be one of the highlights of my year. I ignored all my other books and started this one right away!
The reader gets to know Tess and her life on Stenland. A little Island close to the Faröer Islands with a curse. Sometimes women wake up with black marks on their faces and anyone in their eyesight turns to stone. Tess's mothers killed her crush's parents in that way, which complicates the whole relationship.
I enjoyed my time reading about Stenland and the curse but unfortunately some of my icks in romance novels are represented in this novel. Miscommunication, insta-love,... I never got what drew Soren to Tess. These, plus my dislike for the main character, have me deciding against a 5 star rating. Apart from these aspects, I'd enjoy the rest of this eerie, and full of yearning, page turner.
"That's why he's so sad"
"I think he's just heartbroken to be leaving her," he said."They love each other. That's the point. Love amplifies normal experiences."