Besides the story, Splinter is to be complimented for an unusually attractive book package – high-quality paper, artistic endpapers, several pages sporting typographic embellishment, and the snazzy covers
Too bad they didn't put more attention into editing the actual story. I was going to cut-and-paste my one-star review from Goodreads, but it seems Goodreads ate it at some point over the last several months, and I didn't keep a copy. Overall, though, to me Tiger's Curse still read like a self-published book and had a lot of believability problems besides (sure her parents are going to let her go off to India at the drop of a hat with somebody they don't know!), and I wound up skimming the second half because it was either that or give up on the book entirely. Needless to say, I'm not planning to bother with the other books in the series. (Bear in mind, also, that I read a lot of YA fiction, so it's not that I was expecting something more adult-oriented or the like.)
Besides the story, Splinter is to be complimented for an unusually attractive book package – high-quality paper, artistic endpapers, several pages sporting typographic embellishment, and the snazzy covers
Too bad they didn't put more attention into editing the actual story. I was going to cut-and-paste my one-star review from Goodreads, but it seems Goodreads ate it at some point over the last several months, and I didn't keep a copy. Overall, though, to me Tiger's Curse still read like a self-published book and had a lot of believability problems besides (sure her parents are going to let her go off to India at the drop of a hat with somebody they don't know!), and I wound up skimming the second half because it was either that or give up on the book entirely. Needless to say, I'm not planning to bother with the other books in the series. (Bear in mind, also, that I read a lot of YA fiction, so it's not that I was expecting something more adult-oriented or the like.)