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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780505526267
ISBN number: 0505526263
Label: Love Spell
Manufacturer: Love Spell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 342
Printing Date: March 06, 2005
Publishing house: Love Spell
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When a young psychic acquires a riddle box in Beijing, China, she learns she can free the shapeshifter imprisoned inside, and that he is the beginning of an adventure – and a love – of a lifetime.
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3 1/2 or 4 Stars??? I couldn't make up my mind so I gave it 4. The book was great; fast paced, exciting and different. The one thing I did love about Liu's writing was she gave you just enough description of how the characters physically look, and left it up to your imagination for the rest...so often writers shove their own portrayals of them down your throat, and that can sometimes ruin the book, and the fun (at least for me anyways). Of course some of the things that happened (or happened to sudden) was a little over the top, but hey we're reading a paranormal/romance so it's allowed and acceptable. Overall this was a pretty good read, and I'm looking forward to reading the subsequent two in the series!
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Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye (Love Spell, 2005)
While I enjoyed Tiger Eye quite a bit while I was reading it, in the weeks between reading and review (I'm a bit behind) I'd forgotten a great deal of it and had to brush up. I did knock off half a star for the book not being memorable, but I have to say, for a book that's marketed as a romance, it reads more like a spy thriller. And I gotta say, that works just fine for me.
The book focuses on Dela Reese, and as we begin Reese picks up what she thinks is a bargain on a decorative box. When she gets back to her hotel room and opens the box, however, she finds that it contains a genie. Well, not a genie, exactly, but Hari, a seven-foot-tall thirteenth-century warrior who's been trapped in the box for hundreds of years. (Not since the thirteenth century, but...oh, it's too complicated to go into here.) Okay, now if you've read two romance novels in your life, you know exactly how the romance subplot is going to play out, and if this were a typical romance novel, I'd probably be saying "hey, it's a decent read," ending the review here, and giving the book an average rating. But the romance here is actually a subplot, as Dela is suddenly being targeted by assassins. Fortunately, Dela is pals with a detective-cum-mercenary agency Dirk and Steele (this book is, in fact, the very first book in the Dirk and Steele series), and once Dela and Hari are back on American soil, we get to know Dirk and Steele's agents well as they keep various killer-style folks from getting to Dela and Hari.
While I'm all for a good romance novel (noting that good romance novels are few and far between), I'm even more all for an exciting adventure novel, and Liu delivers here. Oftentimes romance writers who endeavor to weave in other genres end up sounding like, well, romance writers trying to write in other genres (take a look at, say, Danielle Steel or Nora Roberts), but Liu sounds like an adventure novelist who had a hankerin' to write a romance novel, and I'm perfectly fine with that. The characters are interesting and well-developed, the action is fast, and the romance subplot, despite the obvious stretching of belief required to buy the setup, plays out nicely, if predictably. The book's only real problem is the ending, which will stretch your beliefs a great deal farther than the setup, but the journey's the thing here. *** ½
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Wow. Now I see what everyone was raving about. This is one of those books I was hesitant to read because there was just so much hype about it. But I have to say, the hype was well-deserved.
It's the start of a series about characters with a wide variety of paranormal and/or psychic abilities. The heroine, an artist with a psychic affinity for metal, is in China on vacation, where an old woman convinces her to buy a puzzle box, which, when she opens it, contains a shape-shifting warrior who's been cursed to be a slave to the owner of the box. The magi who cursed him is now after both of them, and there's an assassin after her as well.
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I recently discovered Marjorie M. Liu by way of her urban fantasy novel _The Iron Hunt_, and the talent she displayed in that novel led me to look into her earlier books. Though I tend to read more fantasy than romance, _Tiger Eye_ did not disappoint.
In this rich tale, a talented young artist finds herself bound to an immortal shapeshifter by magical forces beyond their control. What follows is a fast-paced plot in which the two must evade danger (both mundane and supernatural) and contend with their growing feelings for one another.
The romance is well-written, with a great deal of depth and emotion; the love scenes are both sizzling and tender. Fans of early Sherrilyn Kenyon will like this, and I suspect that fans of Anne Bishop's Black Jewels will feel the same way.
Style-wise, _Tiger Eye_ is written in a simpler, less avant-garde prose than _The Iron Hunt_; which novel you prefer will likely be a matter of taste. Like _The Iron Hunt_, _Tiger Eye_ has moments where the prose is so beautiful that I had to stop reading and grin wildly at the pages, often through a tear or two.
Most of the conflict in the story is external. If you're into romances where the protagonists bicker constantly throughout the story, you won't find that here. However, if you're looking for interesting characters, haunting magic, and True Love Conquering All, this is your lucky day.
I haven't had this much fun reading a romance in years. I think I can safely call myself a big Liu fangirl.
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I am conflicted with my review since overall I liked the book, but if I really examine it closely - it was definitely fluff. True, that I shouldn't have expected Dostoevsky with a picture of a partially dressed blond on the cover, but I have learned a long time ago not to judge a book by its cover and all the great reviews made me pick it up. The story vaguely reminds me of the X-Men plot line with Genie/Tarzan additions, but as fairy tales go - it was an entertaining read.
The main aspects of the book that I really liked were:
1. Dela was a likable character. She is strong, independent, self reliant, well educated and can hold her own in bad situations.
2. The supporting characters were mostly well picked and each had their own interesting personality, which I think enriched the book.
3. The mystery around the plot was well constructed and wasn't obvious, hence it made me want to read to the end.
Now as to the negative:
1. I'm not a big fan of "initial-hate-turned-to-romance-in-two-days" kind of story. I like when authors either stretch it out over multiple books or skip a couple of months here and there, so the passion actually makes sense. Here, the main characters started talking about kids on day three all the while not believing their true fortune!
2. Not giving away any major spoilers, Hari was a slave for 2000 years and when he wasn't asked to fight for his masters he was made to pleasure his mistresses. There was much emphasis on cultural aspects and historical events that Hari saw, but shouldn't he have met at least one homosexual master in all that time? Since the author tried to add historical data to emphasize the darker sides of human nature and all that Hari went, she should've made it at least a little more believable and looked up the preferences of people in a given time period.
3. The resolution to the plot was very thin and in my opinion lacked culmination factors. I found the ending lacking since I was expecting something more based on the exciting buildup throughout the book. The bad guys were not very believable in their badness and were very easily overcome without a single loss to the good side. Yet again, not very believable in my opinion.
I might read the subsequent book in the series, mostly because I liked Artur's character and I think the second book is based on him, but this book did not hook me like the work of J.R. Ward did for example. There are things missing from making it a hit, although overall it's a somewhat entertaining read.
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