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After all this years I'm finally able to put into words what I think is wrong with epilogues
1. It's already been said by someone here, but I agree 100%. TSG was never exclusively PuckBrina story. So making epilogues that cover only their future is really lame. What about Daphne, Red, Canis, Relda, Snow and Charming, Jake? How Ferryport Landing and Fairie changed?
2. But even if epilogues HAD to be about PuckBrina, their relationship just wasn't written well. The main theme of PuckBrina (arguably) is maturing. It's clear with Puck, but he also helps Sabrina mature, especially in later books. But almost every action in epilogues seems childish.
Epilogue 1: The only thing I like about it is that Sabrina tries to move on from Puck. But why get married if you still hope for your crush to ruin your wedding? And Puck disappearing for 5 years (as far as I remember there never even was a reason)? And then interrupting the wedding? So fucking mature. I just feel bad for Bradley. He wasn't even treated seriously by the book.
Epilogue 2: Hooray! We're not telling our kids about everafters and Grimms! Because it went so fucking well fo Sabrina and Daphne! Again, maybe they had reasons, but as is it's just repeating Henry and Veronica's mistake while knowing EXACTLY what results may be.
Epilogues make it seem like Puck and Sabrina never went through all this development throughout books and drew no fucking conclusions after everything they went through. And MB could write anything as an epilogue, but for whatever reason he chose this 😐