Book review: Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck

My summary:
Kelsey Hayes is looking for a summer job and ends up at a circus selling tickets, souvenirs and helping out with the white tiger. Kelsey quickly bonds with the dangerous animal and when she one day hears the tiger, Ren, is going to be sold and shipped off to India Kelsey is a bit sad, but she wants this beautiful creature to be free.

The buyer wants Kelsey to come along and escort Ren, the tiger, to India. Soon Kelsey is in the middle of an adventure she never could have dreamed of, let alone imagined herself being the most important character in it. Kelsey is a part of a 300 year old Indian prophecy; she is the girl who will break an old spell. 

My thoughts:

Hi guys! Have you missed me? I've been a few hours in India and I just got back. Well, I haven't really been to India but I wish I'd been there anyway. Author Colleen Houck paints a vivid picture of India (at least for a person who haven't been there - I cannot vouch for the accuracies), you can almost believe your out in the jungle with the main characters, taste the spicy food and the juice of a ripe Mango. 

Colleen Houck has written an original fantasy love story, which in my opinion stands out from the crowd. Tiger's Curse is the story of two Indian princes who was cursed over 300 years ago, they now live life as tigers (well mostly as tigers anyway). There is some nice action scenes in this book that is perfect for an Indiana Jones movie with royal tigers in it.

Tigers are some of my favorite animals and in Tiger's Curse we get to know a beautiful white tiger named Ren, I fell in love with him from the very beginning. There's also a black tiger, Kishan, in this story and he deserves to be mentioned as well, he is just the kind of flirtatious and confident type that I like. I actually had to read up on my tiger knowledge because I knew little to nothing about black tigers. It was interesting to see that there have been reported sights of black tigers, but not very often and quite a few of the sights have been dismissed as illusions.

A few pet peeves of mine:

• Kelsey, our heroin, states time and time again how handsome her crush is(a bit like Bella) 
• Kelsey putting herself down during the last 100 pages or so - very annoying.
• A few bits of unnecessary information which I wonder why is in the novel at all.

These are minor flaws in the big picture and this was a pleasant reading experience. I'm looking forward to figure out more about the curse and to get to know Kelsey, Ren and Kishan even better.

Book trailer:

The cover:

I fell in love the moment I laid eyes on this beautiful white tiger.

My rating of this book:

3.75 stars out of 5

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Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck

Published: May 26th 2011
Pages(paperback): 512
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444734601 (ISBN13: 9781444734607)
Full disclosure: This book was sent to me for an honest review by the publisher. 

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