What Alis couldn't say at the end- what might it mean?

[Sarah]

I remember at the end when Feyre learns the truth of the curse and then Alis says there may still be another way to break it, but Alis can't actually tell Feyre how (the curse forbids her from doing so).

Alis says, "There was one part of the curse. One part we can't tell you. Even now, my bones are crying out just for mentioning it. One part you have to figure out…on your own, one part she…she….That she still doesn't want you to know, if I can't say it. But keep- keep your ears open, girl. Listen to what you hear."

What do you think this way that she is referring to is? It would seem to be Feyre solving the riddle and fully confronting her love for Tamlin (and we do see the listen to what you hear" with the whole Tamlin having a stone heart, but I just find it hard to believe that Alis would know that Amarantha would give Feyre the 3 Task Challenge to win back Tamlin rather than just flat out killing Feyre.

Do you think there may have been another part of the curse that we don't know about and may still be revealed later on in one of the next books? I mean, was Tamlin cursed with a stone heart then as well? I just don't get what this other major part is that would be deliberately kept separate from the rest of the curse which also couldn't initially be revealed to Feyre.

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It's the riddle...

[Sarah]

Cheza wrote: "It's the riddle..."

But, how did Alis know that Feyre would be given the riddle to solve? When Feyre showed up under the Mountain, the riddle seemed to be something that Amarantha gave to her on a whim almost like she was indulging Feyre. Whereas, if the riddle was what Alis was referring to, then it would have been a planned part of the curse all along.

[Sarah]

Naiya wrote: "I agree, it was a little strange. The only thing I could think of was that the very fact that Amarantha had to give Feyre a chance to prove her love/break the curse was part of that same curse. Aft..."

Yeah; that also was part of the reason that I was so confused by what Alis was saying. Because if the curse required Amarantha to give Feyre a second chance, why wasn't Clare given one? Unless the reason is because Clare didn't say that she wanted that chance (unlike Feyre who basically demanded it) and that she had come to claim her love (since they did kidnap her and try to get her to say that she loved Tamlin, but Clare didn't even know who he was…idk).

Maybe I'm just reaching for something that isn't there.

[Sarah]

Naiya wrote: "Hmm, the only thing that saved her when she tried to remember what she'd heard was the realization that all the hearts of the high lords had been stolen and stone. That allowed her to win the third..."

Well, I've heard that the next book will have Feyre still as the main character, and that the plot is going to be a bit of a retelling of Hades and Persephone which makes sense given the bargain Feyre made with Rhys. However, I think the heart of stone just applied to Tamlin. Perhaps that was part of the curse since he had to get a human to fall in love with him. Also, I think Tam definitely fell in love with Feyre before she broke the curse. I'm just wondering if this missing piece that Alis couldn't mention will be somehow related to the possible storyline of Rhys and Feyre; I've come to hate love triangles-especially in YA series-but unfortunately, it seems that there will be one in the next book with Tamlin, Feyre, and Rhys. I have a feeling, like many others, that the reason Rhys looked at Feyre so strangely at the very end is because he recognized her as his true mate. While I do love Rhys's character, I hope Feyre doesn't end up leaving Tamlin; it would make the entire first book and the storyline of her breaking the curse by falling in love with him and nearly dying for it seem like a complete and total waste.

[Emmy]

" Feyre remembers that when having her talk with Alis before coming here, Alis told her there was still another part of the curse that Amarantha was still preventing her from telling Feyre, so she knows it must be important and tells Feyre she has to just listen.
Feyre realizes what she meant and thinks back to all the conversations she heard between members of the spring court and remembers everyone saying Tamlin has a heart of stone, she thought it a figure of speech but realizes it's true, that he's cursed with a stone heart. She's never heard it beating when they've lain together.
Hoping she's right, she plunges the dagger into Tamlins chest, and after piercing skin and muscle the blade stops. She was right. The fairies all around begin demanding that Amarantha break the spell as Feyre has completed her tasks successfully, and Amarantha calls them fools. She says that although she said solving the riddle would grant instant release from the spell, she only said that she WOULD release the fairies if the tasks were solved, not WHEN she would release them and that Feyre had only assumed the same applied to the riddle as the tasks.