Tiger's Curse (Tiger's Curse, #1)

by Colleen Houck

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For the majority of this book I just kept thinking that 13 year old me would have loved this book. There's adventures and romance and tigers. What more could you want? Well, adult me wanted a more sophisticated writing style and its over described in a pedestrian way but I got used to it about half way through.

And I knew this was part of a series and I was really hoping [author:Colleen Houck] wasn't going to drag getting all four of the gifts out and of course she did. But even that I would have been fine with if Kelsey hadn't taken that completely irrational turn two thirds of the way through.

I actually liked her as a very normal girl who chose to be brave and compassionate and she was a nice little heroine. She came across as fifteen instead of eighteen, in part because the simplistic writing style made her sound immature. But also then that stupid turn she takes that makes no sense at all and feels incredibly contrived. And annoying. And once she makes that turn she handles it horribly, acting incredibly juvenile. And then Houck tries to give her this bs reason that sounds all selfless and noble but really she's just insecure and afraid. It was very annoying.

Oh! and she braids her hair and ties it off with ribbons. It's not quite a French braid and only my book club girls will appreciate it. But it had to be mentioned.

It's also a good story and mostly really pretty good characters. And I like how unique it is. And I probably wouldn't have been nearly as annoyed with it if I'd had read it when I was 13. So you know I'm going to read the next one just to see what happens.