# 34 Marjorie M Liu, TIger Eye, 2005

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

# 34 Marjorie M Liu, TIger Eye, 2005

This book was a real change of pace for me. I had read some reviews before and I thought I would try her out - http://community.livejournal.com/50books_poc/tag/a:+liu+marjorie

Tiger Eye suffers, to my taste, from an excess of plot. It reminds me of a romance novel I read - and liked - in which the heroine was a pro-American revolutionary spy. Who got kidnapped. By pirates. And fell in love with the pirate chief. Who turned out to be an English noble. Of course.

Tiger Eye suffers from the same excesses. It’s not enough that the heroine finds a box which contains a kind of magical genii. She is also psychic. And being hunted by the Chinese mafia. And he is not just a genii, he’s also an immortal. Who is seven feet tall (and built to match). And a shape shifter who turns into a tiger. (Or course it would be a tiger. It’s not going to be a snail or a sloth or an animal that’s less cool than, say, wolf at a minimum).

My only disappointment with the story was that the male protagonist went from resigned dislike for her as his latest master to all-out love in the space of one afternoon and a few pages. I’d quite like to have had this process take a longer time. He had canonically been abused by his masters for thousands of years; I would have thought it would take a while longer to get over this.

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Excess plot is one of the chief joys of Marjorie Liu!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, but that's a feature, not a bug. Except in Red Heart of Jade, where I still have no idea what happened. Possibly Dean became invincible?

[daedala.livejournal.com]

I dunno.

I think maybe they both became gods. But I'm not clear on that.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

> Red Heart of Jade, where I still have no idea what happened

Oh dear lord, I'm so glad it's not just me!

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, but that's a feature, not a bug.

Uh huh:-)