Tiger's Curse

Reader reviewed by Courtney

Have you ever looked at the caged animals at the circus and felt sorry for them?  I know I have! You wonder how they feel being locked up all the time. Well Kelsey is teenage girl who is filling in as a temp at her local circus and can't help but to feel sorry for the beautiful white tiger that is caged up.  She feels somehow connected to him and spends all her spare moments reading to him and talking to him while she is there! Then she wishes he could be free and suddenly her tiger is not just a tiger anymore but also a prince! Lucky girl! That's when the adventure begins!

 

I thought this story was very unique.  Sometimes a bit unbelievable but still very good!  I've never heard anything quite like it before! My favorite part of this story was Ren! Ren is gorgeous, of course, and he is sweet and charming and a prince! I am a sucker for prince charming, lame I know, but I am.  However, I was completely annoyed with Kelsey.  She was an annoying teenager! She drove me crazy, I felt she was too childish to be believable; I would have given this story 5 stars if Kelsey didn't drive me nuts! The problem is you can't have a totally unbelievable gorgeous prince and an annoying normal believable teenage girl; it just was slightly weird to me! 

 

There is lots of Indian history, myths and of course the tiger curse! I enjoyed all of that! The mystery was great and adventurous and the love story was pretty good.  The kissing scenes were amazing; I'd give it a PG-13 rating, overall pretty clean but just some hot kissing and no bad language! Enjoyable YA read!

I was so excited to read this book, I have never read anything set in India and I was interested in how the author would weave Indian myths into the story. I believe that the myths used in this story were very interesting and worked very well. I just wish I liked the book more than I did. Don't get me wrong I did like it, I just thought that I would love it.

The idea that a curse was put on two Indian princes and they have been trapped as tigers for more than 250 years was definitely intriguing and unique. The author pulled this off very well and placing it in modern times just added an element of understanding to the story. It also made it more difficult for the aforementioned princes.

Overall, I liked the characters. Ren was funny and sweet. He was completely loyal to Kelsey even when she treated him like crap. He refused to give up and even after living with the curse of being in the form of a tiger, he was one of the nicest people. I liked Kelsey in the beginning, she was cool and I could relate to her. As the story went on however she really started to annoy me. Ren was completely in love with her and she started pushing him away because she thought that once he was returned to his human form he wouldn't want her anymore because she's "plain". Even when Ren told her that he loved her she tried pushing him away, when that didn't work she got rather nasty with him. This drove me insane because she kept thinking that she loved him as well, she was being selfish and ridiculous.

My one major issue with this novel was that it was rather slow. The beginning drags a little bit but as the story progresses, there is a lot more action and the speed picks up. The adventure is compelling and it had me on the edge of my seat. Even though I didn't love this story, I liked it enough that I will be purchasing the second book because I can't wait to find out what happens to Ren and Kelsey later on in their adventures.

I'll have to say, the book cover and the plot were quite nice, but this author has not grasped the context of writing. She is a bad author overall, and everyone who says that this book is good (no offense) should go read some other BETTER books. She adds too many exclamation points, and it just makes it seem like a child's book, and she adds useless details. I don't even know how she has the ideas to create a series while being such a bad writer. I'm sorry, but this is the best I can give her.