Cursed is Right

Tiger's Curse is the first book in Colleen Houck's Tiger Saga.

Dhiren is a prince of an ancient Indian kingdom, who was betrayed by his brother, and both brothers end up cursed by a rival kingdom's king to live their lives mostly as tigers.

Kesley has just finished high school and needs a summer job to help pay for college.  She ends up a circus helping with the animals.  Their white tiger fascinated her, and she feels drawn to him.  When a man shows up and wants to take the tiger, Ren, back to India and ask Kesley for her help, she jumps at the chance.

She soon discovers the tiger is more than he seems.  Ren is a cursed prince who can only be human for 24 minutes a day.  She embarks on a quest to help him break the curse.

The concept of this book had so much promise, and even the prologue kept up the promise.  Too bad once the book became Kesley's book it fell flat. The writing had such a young teenage girl diary feel to it that is was hard to really get into it.  It felt like a play by play of Kesley's day, and the amount of description she gave of every food she ate was totally unnecessary.

Then there is Kesley, who is suppose to be this seventeen year old girl who has finished high school, but she really feels much younger in the book. Plus the fact that her parents died a few years ago, the author seems to totally gloss over that fact.  Then there is the the fact that about a third of the way into the book, Kesley suddenly wants Ren to call her Kells, and that she describes her growing feelings for Ren as her love plant.

The interactions between Ren and Kesley were painful at times. The conversations bounced all over the place with no rhyme or reason.  Then Kesley starts to push him away because she is afraid of what was happening between them.  She compares him to Adonis but says she is no Helen of Troy, way to mix your Greek mythology totally up.  FYI Adonis was only in love with himself, and Helen of Troy was in love with Paris.

I am sad that this book was so badly written.  I really wanted to like it, but the writing was hard to stomach.  I can't even image forcing my way through the rest of the series.

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