Tiger's Curse

4.5 Stars

This book was utterly fantastic. Between the lore, the myths, the world, and the characters, there were so many different facets to this amazing story. I went into this book not having heard anyone else really comment on the series and I had no expectations whatsoever, but let me just say I was blown away by this book. The detail and the writing were amazing and while there was a lot of information to divulge it was an easy read.

The book also moved at a very comfortable pace with progress constantly being made in the quest to undo the curse on Ren and Kishan. From the little bit we saw of Kishan, I think he is a fascinating character and I cannot wait to learn more about him. However, I do not like that this book set up what I assume is a love triangle between Kelsey and the two brothers. And that set up is the reason I docked half a star. I'm tired of love triangles and I was really hoping this series did not have one, but it looks like there will be. However, hopefully I'm wrong and it will just be a strong friendship between Kelsey and Kishan.

As the first in the series, this book did an excellent job of introducing the adventure and giving us the back-story on the events surrounding the curse. While we did get a lot of information, we were also kept in the dark a lot too, which I actually appreciated. We know the “villain” who enacted the curse is still alive, however we do not know anything about what his current motivations and actions are. I'm sure the next book is going to have a lot more to do with him as the gang gets closer and closer to breaking the curse.

I cannot remember how often I've started reading this book, but putting it back down after a chapter or two. I found it boring when I was elementary school, middle school and high school. Now as a college student, I'm not even going to bother reading this book and will do anything to get rid of it after 9 years of having it.

I don't know what it is about this book that makes it so boring and lackluster. Maybe the start is very slow and I for the life of me cannot get past it and into the potentially more interesting part. Maybe the writing is just bland and the main character comes across as Bella Swan 2.0.

The fact that this book uses Indian culture/religion/mythology is great since most books use Greek/Roman/Norse. This could've been a great way for my younger self to get interested in other mythology, but there was this invisible force that prevented me from even getting halfway into the book.