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hilse's review against another edition
2.0
So, were-tiger sounded kind of cool to me and it was a Kindle daily deal.
Unfortunately, Dela is a first-order Mary Sue and the male hero is more caveman than "alpha male" in my opinion.
Unfortunately, Dela is a first-order Mary Sue and the male hero is more caveman than "alpha male" in my opinion.
rosetyper9's review against another edition
5.0
I have read a few things about this series and I started reading I think book number six a long time ago when I didn't even realize it was part of a series and I didn't finish it because I was so confused. Now I know why, lol. (Yes, I just LOL in my review) I really am glad I found this book at my PX and was able to grab it because I love this book. It is well written, strongly charactered, and it really made me think of the Psy-chageling series by Nalini Singh, which I adore.
Let's jump in shall we? I like Dela (love her name too), she is strong, she has weaknesses and strengths and she isn't afraid to be herself, these are all wonderful heroine characteristics. I heart Hari (hate his name) he is strong, masculine, and just hot. I think he was a bit too lenient on the trust after everything he has been through, but I don't know Dela as well as he does, so what do I know. I do also want to say that nothing scares Ms. Lui...the way she set up the plot and some of the disturbing things mentioned here and there....creepy, disturbing, and totally appropriate for the book. Some authors might have shied away.
I will continue to devour this series.
Let's jump in shall we? I like Dela (love her name too), she is strong, she has weaknesses and strengths and she isn't afraid to be herself, these are all wonderful heroine characteristics. I heart Hari (hate his name) he is strong, masculine, and just hot. I think he was a bit too lenient on the trust after everything he has been through, but I don't know Dela as well as he does, so what do I know. I do also want to say that nothing scares Ms. Lui...the way she set up the plot and some of the disturbing things mentioned here and there....creepy, disturbing, and totally appropriate for the book. Some authors might have shied away.
I will continue to devour this series.
sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu is the first book in the paranormal romance series, Dirk & Steele.
This story is about Delilah a metal welder, sculpture, and artist and Hari, an immortal man stuck in a 2 thousand year old box. Without knowing there was a spell or curse on the box, Delilah buys it while she's in China. Well, she opens the box and out comes Hari, a 7 foot tall buff muscled man with a tattoo across his chest.
The beginning of this was interesting and then then towards the middle and the end, it really started to drag on. The audiobook was 13 hours and the story honestly didn't need to be that long. I just remember wishing the story was "over already" and I still had 3 hours left of the audiobook.Delilah gets kidnapped towards the end and I honestly think something in the middle could have come out to make the story shorter, because it didn't need to be that long!
This was just okay, I'm giving this 3 stars out of 5
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I listened to this for free on the library app Libbyapp.com
This story is about Delilah a metal welder, sculpture, and artist and Hari, an immortal man stuck in a 2 thousand year old box. Without knowing there was a spell or curse on the box, Delilah buys it while she's in China. Well, she opens the box and out comes Hari, a 7 foot tall buff muscled man with a tattoo across his chest.
The beginning of this was interesting and then then towards the middle and the end, it really started to drag on. The audiobook was 13 hours and the story honestly didn't need to be that long. I just remember wishing the story was "over already" and I still had 3 hours left of the audiobook.
This was just okay, I'm giving this 3 stars out of 5
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I listened to this for free on the library app Libbyapp.com
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Gore, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Child death, and Confinement
elusivity's review against another edition
Beginnings of skillful writing abilities here, suffocated beneath melodramatic purple prose and typically ludicrous Romance set-up. Sexy tiger man with vulnerable but strong psychic woman. Beyond cliched, but perhaps may grow better as the series move on?
bookswithbets's review against another edition
adventurous
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
waterfairy's review against another edition
2.0
A very average PNR.
Hari - an ok Hero. Doesn't seem to have problems adjusting to different times. And he really wasn't a tortured hero at all. The book and the characters say that he was tortured over and over but it wasn't shown that clearly.
Deal - almost a cardboard Mary Sue. I'll give the author a due trying to tackle certain issues but it just didn't play it well for me. Not really that interesting.
The ending was really ambiguous and the whole curse part was not explained satisfactorily (at least to me).
I had hoped it wouldn't be a typical PNR but it is. I'm not that interested in continuing the series further.
Hari - an ok Hero. Doesn't seem to have problems adjusting to different times. And he really wasn't a tortured hero at all. The book and the characters say that he was tortured over and over but it wasn't shown that clearly.
Deal - almost a cardboard Mary Sue. I'll give the author a due trying to tackle certain issues but it just didn't play it well for me. Not really that interesting.
The ending was really ambiguous and the whole curse part was not explained satisfactorily (at least to me).
I had hoped it wouldn't be a typical PNR but it is. I'm not that interested in continuing the series further.
siria's review against another edition
2.0
The further on this book progressed, the wonkier the plot became, it has several First Novel problems, and Liu has a couple of stylistic tics that make me twitch, but overall this was an enjoyable piece of trashy fluff. Dela, the female lead, was entirely lacking in common sense at times, but I liked that she was able to defend herself most of the time, and that she was the one who held the power balance (at least initially) in her relationship with Hari. My favourite part of it, and what will get me to check out the next few novels at least in the series, is that the cast wasn't entirely white. The heroine was a blue-eyed blonde, yes, but many—if not most—of the others are characters of colour, and I hold out hope that their focus books will get to present non-white men as romantic leads without exoticising them. I know! Shocking!
(The cover is, of course, dire. Why is it that romance and fantasy novels tend to have such awful covers? I'd be much more likely to try some of them if I weren't embarrassed to be seen with them in public.)
(The cover is, of course, dire. Why is it that romance and fantasy novels tend to have such awful covers? I'd be much more likely to try some of them if I weren't embarrassed to be seen with them in public.)
library_bookwyrm's review against another edition
3.0
Sometimes I'm in the mood for a romance novel, but I have a hard time finding ones I like. I liked this one - the story was fun. Next time I'm in the mood for a romance novel, I'll come back to this series.
khines213's review against another edition
2.0
Fascinating premise that led me on a crazy rabbit trail about the difference between Chinese and Arab genie folklore that resulted in the revelation that Aladdin is not originally an Arab legend. Kudos to the author for being true to the culture and having the tiger shifting genie housed in a puzzle box.
I'm giving 90% of this book three stars because I enjoyed it and was totally on board for this whole premise and world and was prepared for a series dive until something that happened in the last 75 pages that crossed a major line for me. Therefore, I'm dropping this to 2 just for that.
**Warning: Read no further unless you really want to know. If you don't, stop here.**
When our hero finally rediscovers his ability to shift (due to a bout of sex--of course) he then proceeds to show her what a "mate kiss" is and I WAS NOT PREPARED. I am shook. I am still shook. I will be a little more wary (but only a little) of shifter romances going forward because WHO KNEW THIS WAS A THING?? NOT ME. Ms. Liu's version of a "mate kiss" is the woman getting oral from the man WHILE HE IS A TIGER. She has a TIGER giving her head. And we're all supposed to think it's sexy. Um no. You either do it both as humans or even both as animals. But not while one is a human and one is an animal. It's unclear because I was hard core skimming and jumping paragraphs to get to the end of the scene, but she might have given him head BACK while he was a tiger?? I'm a little more fuzzy on that part because again--I was in shock and skipping to the to end at that point.
I was literally 75 pages from the end so I finished it. But I finished it with one eye closed.
Silver lining?? In order to save him from being a genie she dies. BUT he gives up being a shifter to bring her back to life. So their weird human/animal sex thing ends after that one time. THANKFULLY, he don't got that tiger shape no more. But ONCE WAS ENOUGH.
A note for all my fellow romance readers out there, I'm not casting stones if you're in to this. No judgement. No shame. You do you.
But I have found my limit today. And this is what it looked like.
I'm giving 90% of this book three stars because I enjoyed it and was totally on board for this whole premise and world and was prepared for a series dive until something that happened in the last 75 pages that crossed a major line for me. Therefore, I'm dropping this to 2 just for that.
**Warning: Read no further unless you really want to know. If you don't, stop here.**
When our hero finally rediscovers his ability to shift (due to a bout of sex--of course) he then proceeds to show her what a "mate kiss" is and I WAS NOT PREPARED. I am shook. I am still shook. I will be a little more wary (but only a little) of shifter romances going forward because WHO KNEW THIS WAS A THING?? NOT ME. Ms. Liu's version of a "mate kiss" is the woman getting oral from the man WHILE HE IS A TIGER. She has a TIGER giving her head. And we're all supposed to think it's sexy. Um no. You either do it both as humans or even both as animals. But not while one is a human and one is an animal. It's unclear because I was hard core skimming and jumping paragraphs to get to the end of the scene, but she might have given him head BACK while he was a tiger?? I'm a little more fuzzy on that part because again--I was in shock and skipping to the to end at that point.
I was literally 75 pages from the end so I finished it. But I finished it with one eye closed.
Silver lining?? In order to save him from being a genie she dies. BUT he gives up being a shifter to bring her back to life. So their weird human/animal sex thing ends after that one time. THANKFULLY, he don't got that tiger shape no more. But ONCE WAS ENOUGH.
A note for all my fellow romance readers out there, I'm not casting stones if you're in to this. No judgement. No shame. You do you.
But I have found my limit today. And this is what it looked like.