Julie Abe's OUR CURSED LOVE is a magical 50 FIRST DATES meets LOVE AND GELATO set in Tokyo, Japan―about destiny, the impact of the choices we make, and the magic of true love.
Six days to remember.
Love or lose him forever.
Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their “just friends” homecoming date during their senior year in high school, nothing’s a secret between Remy and Cam―except for how much she is in love with him.
Remy is trying to work up the courage to confess her feelings during their winter break trip to Japan, when she gets selected for a mystical tea leaves reading and it reveals that they’re not meant to be together. After they stumble upon a secret magical apothecary in the back alleys of Tokyo, Remy and Cam are offered an ancient soulmate elixir, created before all love potions were banned by the magical government. They each have their reasons for wanting to take it, but what could go wrong with finding your soulmate a little earlier?
Except, after they drink up, their senior year trip flips into the worst vacation Cam has forgotten who Remy is. If she can't help Cam remember her by midnight New Year’s Eve, they’ll both be cursed to forget each other. To unravel their past and rewrite the future, Remy and Cam must travel through Tokyo to rediscover Cam’s memories and make new ones―and maybe even fall in love all over again.
Six days to remember.
Love or lose him forever.
Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their “just friends” homecoming date during their senior year in high school, nothing’s a secret between Remy and Cam―except for how much she is in love with him.
Remy is trying to work up the courage to confess her feelings during their winter break trip to Japan, when she gets selected for a mystical tea leaves reading and it reveals that they’re not meant to be together. After they stumble upon a secret magical apothecary in the back alleys of Tokyo, Remy and Cam are offered an ancient soulmate elixir, created before all love potions were banned by the magical government. They each have their reasons for wanting to take it, but what could go wrong with finding your soulmate a little earlier?
Except, after they drink up, their senior year trip flips into the worst vacation Cam has forgotten who Remy is. If she can't help Cam remember her by midnight New Year’s Eve, they’ll both be cursed to forget each other. To unravel their past and rewrite the future, Remy and Cam must travel through Tokyo to rediscover Cam’s memories and make new ones―and maybe even fall in love all over again.
Title: Our Cursed Love
Author: Julie Abe
Publisher: Wednesday Books/St. Martin's Press
Publisher: Wednesday Books/St. Martin's Press
Expected Publication Date: December 12, 2023
Review:
I'd like to thank NetGalley and Wednesday Books/St. Martin's Press for providing me with an egalley of this book to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
What is you had one final chance to let the love of your life know you loved them more than just a best friends? What would you do? But what if you're told you do not have a soul mate? How would you try to change that. Remy is taking the trip of her life to Japan with Cam her best friend since she was born. But when she's given her ultimate life fortune, and then a chance to possibly change it, she takes the chance only to lose the one she loves the most. Can she win him back before the clock strikes it's final tole on New Year's Day?
This book was fun. It has elements of love and magic and fortunes. It has hope and tears. And a classic type love story almost Cinderella style.
The book takes place in Japan, so elements of that culture are thrown throughout. Which I really loved. But I also felt like there was more to the magic than the author followed in the book. I really wished the author would have shown more of the magical culture throughout. I think it would have made it easier to understand.
Remy and Cam are sweet together. The idea of having a best friend who can finish your thoughts, who knows exactly what you need, is sweet. Everyone should have those connections.
I will say I didn't realize this book was connected to another book. And perhaps having read that one first would have been appropriate (thought is seems you don't really have to). But I did feel I was missing something throughout, so perhaps that was it.
The one thing that bothered me most in the book is how Remy's chapters truly outnumbered Cam's. I kept thinking why write a dual point of view book if we get more from one character than the other?
Overall this one was cute. If you're looking for a YA romance without much depth that has a happily ever after, give it a try.
Author:
Julie Abe is the author of the EVA EVERGREEN, SEMI-MAGICAL WITCH middle grade fantasy series; the middle grade fantasy ALLIANA, GIRL OF DRAGONS; and the young adult novel THE CHARMED LIST. She has lived in Silicon Valley, spent many humid summers in Japan, and currently basks in the sunshine of Southern California with never enough books or tea, where she creates stories about magical adventures.
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