Cursed is Marissa Meyer’s anxiously-awaited finale of her Rumplestiltskin retelling, and for me, it more than lived up to my expectations. It was dark and vicious, violent and tense; in essence, it is everything I love in my stories. I appreciate that Ms. Meyer took us out of Adalheid Castle and into a different part of the country as we learned more about the Erlkönig’s past. While others might complain about the slow pacing, I look at it as the calm before the storm because once Serilda and Gild figure out what the Erlkönig plans to do, the story rockets to the finish line. Overall, Cursed gave me everything I hoped for and more. I couldn’t ask for a better ending, and Ms. Meyer ties all of her storylines together neatly and in ways that make sense and fit the characters. With this one duology, Ms. Meyer is now on my sacred auto-buy list.