Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck

Long ago, there was a powerful king of India who had to sons. One he named Dhiren. The two brothers received the best education and military training. Their mother taught them to love the land and all the people who lived there. She often took the boys to play with underprivileged children because she wished for them to learn what their people needed. This contact also taught them to feel humility and to be grateful for the advantages they had. Their father, the king, taught them how to rule the kingdom. Dhiren, in particular, grew up to be a brave and fearless military leader as well as a sensible administrator. His brother was also very strong brave and clever. He loved Dhiren but, at times, he felt a piercing stab of jealousy in his heart, for despite all being successful in all of his training, he knew Dhiren was destined to be the next king. It was only natural for him to feel this way. Dhiren had a knack for impressing people easily with his acumen intelligence and personality. A rare combination of charm and modesty embodied in a prince made him an outstanding politician. A person of contradictions, he was a great warrior as well as a renowned poet. The people loved the royal family and looked forward to many peaceful and happy years under Dhiren’s reign. King Rajaram, Dhiren’s father arranged a marriage between Dhiren and the daughter of a ruler of a neighbouring kingdom. Dhiren’s brother fell in love with Yesubai. So he plotted to steal her from his brother. He betrayed him and bartered with an evil man so he could be Yesubai’s husband.  Anyway as the story goes Dhiren and his brother were killed by this evil man. Yesubai took her own life and Dhiren’s parents died of old age.

Kelsey Hayes is an orphan. She is seventeen almost eighteen and lives with her foster parents in Oregon. She needs work for the summer so she applies for a job at a circus where she cares for a beautiful white tiger named Ren. Whom she creates a special bond with. After two weeks of working at the circus and wishing she could free Ren, a man named Mr. Kadam comes to buy the tiger Kelsey is devastated but she is allowed to fly to India with ren so he is settled and happy in his new home.

When Kelsey discovers that ren is really prince Dhiren she knows she must help him break Durga's curse.

What will Kelsey do? Can Kelsey control all those lost feelings? Will they break Durga’s curse? Will Kelsey overcome the fear of letting loose everything inside of her to save ren, the man/tiger she’s in love with?

Just to be clear ren is prince Dhiren; he is cursed and he is 350 years old and unable to die. Mr. Kadam is Ren's advisor and has a charm necklace to keep him alive all these 300 years.

I loved this book so much. I would give it a 10/10 because it is so brilliantly awesome. I love the way it’s written with heaps of twists in the plot and how it always kept me guessing. Full of romance, mystery, fear, travelling the globe and desperation of staying true but finding who you are sort of stuff; I would recommend this book to everyone who wants a book that they don’t want to stop reading.

Love this book. Its so epic ness yeh!!! I can’t wait for the next book. Everyone should read this; hey maybe we should do a novel study on this. I really enjoyed this book because it showed me even the ordinary can be well extra ordinary. I didn’t really like the ending because the so should have got together but they didn’t. Oh well. But it does leave some good romantic tension for the next book cant wait!!!