Book: Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck

Book Info: Published by Sterling Publishing; 496 pages; purchased for my Nook

Genre: YA: Romance/Fantasy

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Goodreads.com Summary: Passion. Fate. Loyalty.

Would you risk it all to change your destiny?

The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.

Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.

The cover drew me in, as did the premise.  The book, however, was just okay.

Here’s what I loved about Tiger’s Curse.  I loved the mythology aspect and how well it was incorporated into the story.  Not only that, but it focused on Indian mythology, which was a nice change from the Greek/Roman mythology you tend to see.  I also loved that Kelsey traveled all over India to figure everything out.

As for what I didn’t like…I just didn’t like the characters.  It was hard to believe that Ren, Kishan, and Mr. Kadam were a few hundred years old.  And Kelsey seemed a little more mature than I expected.  I didn’t find them particularly interesting, and by the end of the novel, I was just irritated with them, and I don’t particularly care about what happens to them.

I would rate it at 2 stars out of 5.  The mythology was interesting but the characters weren’t.