A review by marshmallowbooks
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
2.0
I have mixed feelings about this book. I liked it, but I didn't; but I liked it enough to be eager to read the second in the series.
The beginning was a little wearing on me. I felt like it took too long to get to the actual story. I was actually at the point of giving the book one more chapter to persuade me to keep reading; luckily that was where the story finally picked up.
I felt there was something left to be desired in the writing style. The sentence structure was very simple, and the plot progression seemed a bit choppy; things worked out too easily to seem realistic to me. It may sound strange to expect what is very much a fairy-tale to be "realistic," but I don't know how else to describe it. Things seemed to happen a little randomly, and people just rolled with it a little too complacently for my taste, I guess. There were also some fairly lamely written chapter and section endings. Once things picked up, though, I enjoyed the story enough to overlook the writing, although I'm hoping that works itself out in the 4 books that follow.
The story was good, though. In fact, the story was great; a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, with Indian mythology and magic woven in quite well. And Ren is quite the man to fall for, even if Kelsey got a bit annoying with her whole "I'm not good enough for you, when will you realize you don't actually want me" phase. That got old fast. Mayhap this is the only book it will be in though. One can hope.
I am very much looking forward to the rest of the series.
The beginning was a little wearing on me. I felt like it took too long to get to the actual story. I was actually at the point of giving the book one more chapter to persuade me to keep reading; luckily that was where the story finally picked up.
I felt there was something left to be desired in the writing style. The sentence structure was very simple, and the plot progression seemed a bit choppy; things worked out too easily to seem realistic to me. It may sound strange to expect what is very much a fairy-tale to be "realistic," but I don't know how else to describe it. Things seemed to happen a little randomly, and people just rolled with it a little too complacently for my taste, I guess. There were also some fairly lamely written chapter and section endings. Once things picked up, though, I enjoyed the story enough to overlook the writing, although I'm hoping that works itself out in the 4 books that follow.
The story was good, though. In fact, the story was great; a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, with Indian mythology and magic woven in quite well. And Ren is quite the man to fall for, even if Kelsey got a bit annoying with her whole "I'm not good enough for you, when will you realize you don't actually want me" phase. That got old fast. Mayhap this is the only book it will be in though. One can hope.
I am very much looking forward to the rest of the series.