A Cursed Embrace put me through the emotional wringer. Holy crap so much happened in this book. In this second installment of the Weird Girls series, the Wird sisters are back and facing and even bigger obstacles. The bad guys are badder, the stakes are higher, and overall the sisters get themselves into heaps of trouble. What else is new? I can't put my thoughts in a coherent structure and also not have it littered with spoilers so the rest of this review will be hidden. Read at your own spoiler filled risk... 
 (view spoiler)[ Ok... let's get right into it. In A Cursed Embrace there's a bigger bad guy in play. Now we're dealing with Demon Lords and world domination. I'll just say this... Demon Lords are WAAAAAYYYY worse than the rabid vamps from before. Seriously... they're in a whole other league of EVIL. Add in the whole "world domination" business and I feel like we just may have the set up for the major evil situation for the rest of the series. 
 Relationships are at the tipping point in A Cursed Embrace. The relationships between the sisters and their wolves are heating up but the relationship between Aric and Celia always appeared fragile. This really got to me. Everything was going so great between them but always tinged bittersweet. It just felt like it had an expiration date from the start. When the break up happened and then for the rest of the book I was pretty much ugly crying. My heart just hurt so much for Celia. The thing is we find out that Aric and Celia are already mated to each other. MATED! If he's already mated, which the were's find sacred, why would they forcibly sever the bond? Yes, the wolf population is in peril right now. But couldn't they just use Aric's semen to artificially inseminate willing were women? That way the population would still go up while Aric remains faithful to his freaking mate! Aric is supposed to now marry Barbara and make babies with her. But she's not his mate so logically in this universe you don't need a mate bond in order impregnate a woman. Why isn't the whole insemination thing even an option at all? I couldn't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. I just couldn't wrap my head around how no one was looking for other solutions to the population problems besides making Aric marry someone other than his mate. 
 Celia's other male friends really stepped up their game in this one. Danny is an adorable dweeb and even though he's human, he won't ever abandon her in a fight or when she's sad. I have a feeling that Danny might end up getting some magic wizard powers as he certainly has an aptitude for it. Bren is the annoying big brother the girls never had. I liked that we got to see him shine a bit and see him in all his battle wolf glory. Mischa, Mischa, Mischa. You're such a good guy when no one is looking! Does he want to bang Celia? Yep. But is he willing to put that aside in order to just be a kind and good friend to Celia? Yes. Heart of gold that one, I tell ya. (hide spoiler)] 
 A Cursed Embrace got me in all the feels. At times, I was straight up ugly crying. But that's the great thing about this series. I'm so invested in these characters that I'm emotionally distraught over fictional events. Can't wait to continue on with the series!