Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck

Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

If I wasn't a hopeless, sappy romantic I most likely wouldn't keep reading this series. That's what this series is all about. A young girl who constantly contradicts herself on who to be with. The only reason I'm still reading this is because I really do want to know who the author is going to have Kelsey end up with.

I wish I could say the adventures were interesting. They were way over-the-top. Completely insane. I realize this is fiction, but come on. Not everything ends up the way we want them to.

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Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck

Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This story starts out horribly childish. Boo, Kelsey runs away but finds magically that she has a huge condo, an expensive sports car, and all of her college courses + books, paid for. Yet, even though her immature decision of running away seems logical to her, She still pines for Ren. (Duh)

Of course, she finds approximately three men who also "fall in love" with her. Good grief. Then Ren decides to follow her back to her hometown and begs for her to "date" him as well as the others so she can make the right choice for her.

This all happens within the first 1/3 of the book. I feel like the author has always wanted to be this "Kelsey" in real life as she puts all her efforts into making this character beautiful and lovable and...perfect. Meh. I think if you want to create a wonderful and memorable character, you must show his/her flaws as well. I just don't see that happening....yet.

Then the book gets interesting after Ren is taken. She starts to get to know Kishan better. I like him. He has a past. He has had to make hard decisions and also is paying for his stupid past decisions. However, does he need to fall in love with Kelsey as well? I get the point now that I've finished the story, it just gets old.

The best part (and saddest) is the ending few chapters. THIS is the reason I gave the book 3 stars. It doesn't end like you totally expect. It wasn't a surprise to me that Ren loses his memories of Kelsey. We'll see where the next book takes us. Hopefully, Kelsey grows up a bit.

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Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck

Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This story was okay. Mostly, a disappointment though on how it was written. It just has such a childish feel to the whole story. It's almost too cheezy. I think that's why it took me a whole month to get through it.

It starts off on an interesting note; Kelsey finds a part-time job at a circus. She meets a mysterious tiger and forms a bond with him. A couple chapters later, an even more mysterious man shows up to buy the tiger and offers to take her to India (all expenses paid of course) to help take care of the tiger since she has such a connection with him. Naturally, she is drawn to this idea. What, no suspicions whatsoever? But you see, there is a curse on this tiger (as she finds out soon after that.)He then is able to change into a man for 24 minutes a day and he one day is able to do this for her. She falls for him. He falls for her. Blah, blah, blah. They have some "scary" adventure trying to break a curse that only she (apparently) can help with.

I could definitely tell that she was immature. I've met real 18 year olds that were more mature than this one. Another annoying factor is that the tiger is also a prince, naturally. He has all the money in the world, he's good looking, he's sweet and charming. He's just perfect. Sigh.

The book doesn't get decent until there is about 20 pages left. Now I have to read the next one to see what happens.


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Tone Body Wash Review

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