I'd heard great things about this book. It was extremely popular at my school library last year, and everyone who read it said they loved it. The premise seemed interesting: a romantic adventure about a girl teaming up with an Indian prince of a bygone era to break the curse on him that keeps him in the form of a tiger. Everyone who talked to me about it swore by the romance. It was one of the best romances they'd ever read, they said, way better than Twilight. That probably should have sent up red flags. 
 The plot isn't terrible; it's the writing. The book was originally self-published, which I didn't know at the time, so the book skipped major revisions by an professional editor. That doesn't automatically make it bad, but it reminds me a lot of fan fiction. Every once in a while you get an author who knows exactly what she's doing and the story shines brighter than a professionally polished novel. More often than not, however, the writing is a bit of a mess and the dialogue leaves something to be desired. That was the case I found in this book. The grammar is fine but for some nit-picky commas and ambiguous sentences, but the writing style is hard to wade through. It's very redundant and focuses too much on trivial details. If a good editor had gotten ahold of the story, this book would probably be more around three hundred pages rather than four hundred sixteen. The dialogue was also very awkward with very little characterization save for accents of a few characters. 
 I had to force myself to read the book and was halfway in when I finally quit. The writing was just too distracting. I was skipping pages at a time, which I rarely do, and missing nothing and going nowhere. There was a point where finding the important paragraphs among the rambling narration was too much work than any plot was worth. 
 Of course, don't let my negativity stop you from trying this book. If I'd have picked this book up maybe three years ago, I probably would have read it cover to cover and loved it. I didn't care about the writing then, and if you don't either, you'll have no trouble with this book. I really just wish that this book was edited. I still get the feeling that this could be such a great book, if only it had been edited down.