A review by siria
Tiger Eye by Marjorie Liu

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.)