#colleen houck

[books-in-a-storm]

JOMPBPC: Day 10 Book Spines

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #book photo challenge #colleen houck #kelley armstrong #october 2023

[ondestamor]

"Pouco importa nós reconhecermos ou não a importância do sol; ele continua a brilhar, seja qual for a atenção que lhe damos."

- O Despertar do Príncipe, Colleen Houck

#colleen houck #o despertar do principe #citação #quote #livro #ler #citações #book #bookstan #books #livros #fav #esfinge #egito #deuses #art #sol #Sun

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Recreated | Author: Colleen Houck | Publisher: Delacorte Press (2016)

#books #Recreated #Colleen Houck

[luade1996]

"Acho que me apaixonar por ele seria como mergulhar em um precipício. Seria ou a melhor coisa que me aconteceria ou o erro mais idiota que eu cometeria."

– Colleen Houck, A Maldição do Tigre

#quotes #frases #trechos #citações #quotes de livros #frases de livros #citação de livro #trechos de livros #colleen houck #a maldição do tigre #livros #romance #amor

[supitsgdo]

Book review: Tiger's Curse saga by Colleen Houck

Rating:

#1 Tiger’s Curse - 4⭐

#2 Tiger’s Quest - 4⭐

#3 Tiger’s Voyage - 4⭐

#4 Tiger’s Destiny - 5⭐

#0.5 Tiger’s Promise - 3⭐

#5 Tiger’s Dream - 5⭐

Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck was a series I read in high school and I completely fell in love with the cover. Tigers 😍then i read the premise and discovered that the story involved Indian mythology?! Oh my, I’m in! I fell in love with the story easily!!! I quickly bought the next books (in Portuguese) and finished the series while attending college (in English). Last year, I discovered I hadn’t read the fifth book, Tiger’s Dream. So I quickly reread the series (again) in 2021 and finally read the last book.

A little context is perhaps necessary: two princes, Dhiren and Kishan, are cursed by a villainous man, they are turned to tigers for the rest of their lives and they can only be in human form for 24 minutes. The two brothers go their separate ways, one stays in the jungle and assumes his animal traits, and the other is caught by hunters and brought to the circus. 350 years passed since they were cursed, and in Oregon, Kelsey goes to work in a circus and meets one of the tigers. Her life takes a BIG turn and she finds herself in India helping the tigers to lift the curse with different quests, and also, ends up falling in love.

Although this review is about Tiger’s Dream, I’ll say what I think about the previous books.

Even though it was the first series from this author and you can see that the writing was a bit flawed, you can also see the evolution throughout the series, it only got better in my opinion. We obviously have romance, and a love triangle (rolling my eyes) that I actually enjoyed. Basically this was twilight for me (and no I didn’t read the twilight (oh no, anyway))! I was happy and sad with the ending. The author dives into unusual settings and throws herself into myths or ancient beliefs to create this amazing and original story. The ancient era and the new are always intertwining which was beautiful to read. The different realms and temples they visited, and the adventures they went through, gosh I wish it had happened to me. It was really amazing!!! Now, as I am more mature (hopefully) and, looking back to the characters, I feel like some of the traits they present make me itch. The males are a bit too possessive or authoritarian sometimes, and Kelsey in the end, her choices didn’t make sense and she was hurting the person who loved her (what a bitch move). But it was one of the greatest journeys.

The Tiger’s Dream is the resolve we needed for Sohan. His relationship with Anamika was so wholesome to read. They were both hurt by different reasons and together they healed each other. Also, this book answers some questions and explains a lot about what happened throughout the series. The end of the book completely broke me, in a way it was the perfect goodbye to this series (I cried a lot). So, what is left to say is: thank you Colleen.

#Colleen Houck #book recommendations #book review #reading challenge #goodreads #2022 #Tigers Curse #tigers promise #tigersquest #tigersvoyage #tigersdestiny #tigersdream #indian mythology

[frasesdelivros03]

Meu coração está em suas mãos. Cuide dele, pois não posso viver com o peito vazio.

- O Destino do Tigre

#o destino do tigre #a maldição do tigre #colleen houck #citaçoes #livros

[falconium18]

The day I stop drawing Ren is when I draw my last breath. If Colleen Houck ever wants me to make a comic using her characters, I will gladly step up to the plate.

#colleen houck #Ren #ren and kelsey #tiger's curse #tiger's quest #tiger's voyage #Dhiren #Ren&Kelsey

[wordworshipper]

I’ve got this huge crush on this guy and want to ask him out but i am shit scare he will deny because he is Ben Kessler who’s created by ink and live between the pages of November 9 😭

#fictional crushes #book boyfriend #november 9 #colleen houck #ben kessler #i am crying #i am screaming #why can’t he be real #i love this man #he has my heart #ahhhhh #book memes #book related #bookstagram #fantasy books

[just0nemorepage]

Tiger's Curse || Colleen Houck || The Tiger Saga #1 || 403 pages ---------------------------------------------------------------- Top 3 Genres: Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance

Synopsis: The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world.

But that's exactly what happened.

Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.

Publication Date: January 2011. / Average Rating: 4.06. / Number of Ratings: ~60,620.

#tbr tuesday #I haven't read this yet! #tiger's curse #colleen houck #the tiger saga #no. 1 #400-499 pages #fantasy #young adult #romance #jomp original

[books-in-a-storm]

April 2024 JOMPBPC: Day 15 Favorite Seires

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #funko pop #funko and books #colleen houck #book photo challenge

[ondestamor]

"– De todo modo, como posso ficar com meu coração? Ele não me pertence mais." - O Despertar do Príncipe, Colleen Houck

#quote #livros #o despertar do principe #books #ler #citação #colleen houck #book #citações #bookstan #livro #Egito #Amon #esfinge #Lily #fav #Coração #Amor #Poesia #declaração de amor #frases #principe do Egito

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Title: The Lantern's Ember

Author: Colleen Houck

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2018

Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, romance

Blurb: Five hundred years ago, Jack made a deal with the devil. It's difficult for him to remember much about his mortal days, so he focuses on fulfilling his sentence as a Lantern - one of the watchmen who guard the portals to the Otherworld, a realm crawling with every nightmarish creature imaginable. Jack has spent centuries jumping from town to town, ensuring that no mortal or not-so-mortal soul slips past him...that is, until he meets the beautiful Ember O'Dare. Seventeen, stubborn, and a natural-born witch, Ember feels a strong pull to the Otherworld. Undeterred by Jack's warnings, she crosses into the forbidden plane with the help of a mysterious and debonair vampire...and the chase through a dazzling, dangerous world is on. Jack must do everything in his power to get Ember back where she belongs before both the earthly and unearthly worlds descend into chaos.

#the lantern's ember #colleen houck #standalone #2018 #fiction #fantasy #paranormal #romance

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free Audiobook] Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold & The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck [Award-Winning YA Contemporary Fairy Tale Fantasy & Horror Retelling]

The annual SYNC Summer of Listening program encouraging literacy among teens by giving away a themed weekly pair of audiobooks—usually 1 modern or non-fiction, 1 classic or drama—returns for another year, courtesy of sponsor AudioFile Magazine and participating publishers.

This 12th week's theme is “Transformative Legends, Legends Transformed”, featuring contemporary reworkings of fantastic old tales about character change, available from Thursday July 13th through Wednesday July 19th:

Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold, read by January LaVoy from HarperAudio. This is a YA contemporary dark fantasy/horror/social drama retelling of “The Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale, set in the Pacific Northwest, as a teenaged girl deals with the fallout from fending off an attack by a wolf in the woods, when a predatory high school classmate is found with the same wounds after. The audiobook reading of this won AudioFile Magazine's own Earphones Award.

The Lantern's Ember by Colleen Houck, read by Piper Goodeve, from Highbridge Audio. This is a YA urban fantasy novel inspired by Washington Irving's spooky classic “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” as well as other tales, centred around a once-mortal boy conscripted centures ago as a “lantern” watching over the crossroads between realms, and a young witch drawn into the dangerous Otherworld, and the ensuing obligatory quest to avert a terrible fate.

The freebies are available via Overdrive's Sora service (listenable via browser on their website, or via their mobile app for iOS & Android devices). To claim them, you'll need to register on the SYNC website with a valid email address to use in a Sora account, using the setup code and directions in the instructions in SYNC's FAQ (no need to re-register if you've participated in previous years' giveaways), clicking “Borrow” to add them to your Sora library as a permanent loan. NB: if you need to free up space on your device later, follow the instructions in the FAQ to only “delete files” and DO NOT “Return” the title, which would remove your future access.

Offered worldwide through Wednesday July 19th until just before midnight Eastern Time, available via the Sora website and app. You can also browse AudioFile Magazine's planned season list to see what will be offered in the weeks ahead and if there's anything you'd especially like to get.

#free audiobook #elana k arnold #colleen houck #young adult #fantasy #fairy tales #the little red riding hood #the legend of sleepy hollow #retellings #fairy tale retellings

[luade1996]

"O que eu sentia por ele parecia complicado demais para definir, mas logo se tornou óbvio para mim que a emoção mais forte que eu sentia, a que estava agitando meu coração, era... amor."

– Colleen Houck, A Maldição do Tigre

#quotes #frases #trechos #citações #quotes de livros #frases de livros #trechos de livros #citações de livros #a maldição do tigre #colleen houck #livros #books

[eloratheesprit]

Kelsey Hayes and Dhiren Rajaram from tigers curse series

#digital art #character art #fantasy #beautiful woman #fan art #tigers curse series #tigers curse #tigers #KelseyHayes #KellsxRen #KelseyxDhiren #colleen houck

[majelijoanna]

Im going to reread a book series I absolutely adored as a preteen and see if they hold up and how much I remember

#reread #maybe they aren’t that great #but what if #i hate them #colleen houck #better live up to expectations #i better not be disappointed