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Book Review: Tiger's Quest, sequel to Tiger's Curse, by Colleen Houck
review for book 1 here: vampirekiki.deviantart.com/art…
Take my words, Colleen Houck totally fails as an 'author', she offers us nothing bout cardboard cutout characters, empty headed heroine who seems to have no thought of her own, uninteresting and unrealistic dreamboat love interests, supporting character (Mr. Kadam) who's only there for the inform dump and being an all-knowing, all-useful plot device.
Beside all these, we also get a silly, painful-to-look-at love triangle--when one of the brothers is captured, the other brother still has the guts to flirt and make out with the captured brother's girlfriend. And before that happens, the 'heroine' somehow manages to date three different guys at once, and none of the guy thinks that's a problem with her dating so many fellows.
The main character Kelsey, for most of the time she doesn't even look and feel like an real person to me. Remember she supposedly had lost her parents? But you won't know it by reading Tiger's Quest, for Kelsey never spent a second to think about her late parents. Instead at the first half of the book, all Kelsey thought about is Ren and her three different dates. *sighs*
And Kelsey was faced with Goddess Druga and all the Eastern mythology, the belief of reincarnations and stuff, those new experience and knowledge never provoked her to think about life and death, the meaning of life and the world she lived in. All she thought about is still her boyfriend. *sighs*
I mean, Kelsey met a Goddess in person, but she never ever bothered to ask the Goddess: "Have you seen my mom and dad? Are they alright now?"
I mean, even Zoey Redbird from the House of Night series, bothered to ask her Goddess what had happened to her late mother after she was murdered!
KELSEY, ARE YOU FOR REAL?
As to the quest to find one of Goddess Druga's holy objects which takes up most of the book, DON'T GET ME STARTED WITH IT! For the whole time I feel like I'm trapped in the freaking Disneyland when Kishan and Kelsey are on their quest.
Also, don't ever get me started with how Houck bastardized the Hindus myth and mixed it up with those Greek mythical figures and fairies and shit.
During the whole progress of reading, I kept asking myself: "Why am I doing this to myself!?" Reading this book is so painful, so unbearable an experience, I kept turning pages just to get the whole thing over with. It's that bad.
You know what? I had gone through five of the Twilight books before, but right now I'm not one bit certain that I can survive the next book...
review for book 1 here: vampirekiki.deviantart.com/art…
Take my words, Colleen Houck totally fails as an 'author', she offers us nothing bout cardboard cutout characters, empty headed heroine who seems to have no thought of her own, uninteresting and unrealistic dreamboat love interests, supporting character (Mr. Kadam) who's only there for the inform dump and being an all-knowing, all-useful plot device.
Beside all these, we also get a silly, painful-to-look-at love triangle--when one of the brothers is captured, the other brother still has the guts to flirt and make out with the captured brother's girlfriend. And before that happens, the 'heroine' somehow manages to date three different guys at once, and none of the guy thinks that's a problem with her dating so many fellows.
The main character Kelsey, for most of the time she doesn't even look and feel like an real person to me. Remember she supposedly had lost her parents? But you won't know it by reading Tiger's Quest, for Kelsey never spent a second to think about her late parents. Instead at the first half of the book, all Kelsey thought about is Ren and her three different dates. *sighs*
And Kelsey was faced with Goddess Druga and all the Eastern mythology, the belief of reincarnations and stuff, those new experience and knowledge never provoked her to think about life and death, the meaning of life and the world she lived in. All she thought about is still her boyfriend. *sighs*
I mean, Kelsey met a Goddess in person, but she never ever bothered to ask the Goddess: "Have you seen my mom and dad? Are they alright now?"
I mean, even Zoey Redbird from the House of Night series, bothered to ask her Goddess what had happened to her late mother after she was murdered!
KELSEY, ARE YOU FOR REAL?
As to the quest to find one of Goddess Druga's holy objects which takes up most of the book, DON'T GET ME STARTED WITH IT! For the whole time I feel like I'm trapped in the freaking Disneyland when Kishan and Kelsey are on their quest.
Also, don't ever get me started with how Houck bastardized the Hindus myth and mixed it up with those Greek mythical figures and fairies and shit.
During the whole progress of reading, I kept asking myself: "Why am I doing this to myself!?" Reading this book is so painful, so unbearable an experience, I kept turning pages just to get the whole thing over with. It's that bad.
You know what? I had gone through five of the Twilight books before, but right now I'm not one bit certain that I can survive the next book...
a thought about Candyman (2021)
I watched Candyman (2021) last week and I enjoyed it. I also managed to buy the ticket with a relatively cheap price, yeah! Still, it's important to note that the titled character, the revengeful ghost Candyman isn't a tragic hero, nor a champion for social justice, he just isn't! Surely he is a very charming monster with a tragic past, but I'm startled to see a few people seem to think what Candyman had done is somewhat justified, I mean, killing people (including but not limited to school kids) cannot be justified. The movie has its own share of flaws (especially the script and the third act ) and some people don't seem to like it, but I promise myself I'll draw some Candyman cookies for this Halloween.
[help] looking for beta(s)!
Dear all:
Some of you may be aware of the fact that me and my co-writer Jun have been working on two A9 series, Cross Game and Imprisoned for some time...and we had finished a handful of chapters...but now we need someone to beta them before we can post them. Here're the information of said series: http://archiveofourown.org/users/junakabisque/pseuds/junakabisque/works?fandom_id=104950
So...anyone?
Love
-Miz
In fact, I finished the new chapter of my fanfic
I finished the new chapter of my Despairsray fanfic.............but somehow I had decided to separate it from the main series and give it a new title.
And right now I can't figure out the new title. =__=
Hi everyone, I need a little help from you guys!
Hi that's Miz, I would like to use dA Journal for promotional purpose, please bear with me.
Please, pretty please. Would you guys mind doing me and a bunch of kids a big favor? I would like you to click into this page, and then click the tiny blue "like" button
http://www.lovehkyourway.org/vote/project_detail.aspx?appid=800057&lang=en-US
After clicking the LIKE button, it's done. It's that simple, as long as you with a Facebook account, you can vote.
A friend of mine had wrote this project, the goal is to provide educational activities and classes *free of charge or in low price* to children who are with Special Educational Needs.
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I'm watching "Xena The Warrior Princess"(The spin-off of Hercules The Lengadry Journeys" on Netflix where it takes liberties of Greek, Hindu, & Chinsese mythologies but what sets it apart from this bad book series, Xena while goofy at times can be serious, there is consequences in the show, the characters are well developed and evolve especially the comic relief Joxer. I think the bastardization of mythologies in Collen Hocuck's books from I gathered is made worse by that she didn't want to create good stories or characters, she just wanted a Self-Insertion MarySue FanFic.