Book Log #26: Jade Tiger, by Jenn Reese
Apr. 22nd, 2008 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperJenn Reese's Jade Tiger is not a book to be taken seriously, but this isn't a bad thing. It reads very much like a lighthearted martial arts flick, and there are certainly times when that's exactly what I want to read.
It didn't hurt in the slightest, either, that the love interest in the book was a skinny, geeky scientific type with sticky-uppy brown hair, brown eyes, narrow features, and a prominent nose. And there were also several scenes towards the end where he was running around in a tuxedo. (Not that this reminded me of anybody, mind you. Nuh uh. I was purely coincidentally interested in that mental image, I swear.)
Ahem, where was I? Right! So, half-Chinese, half-American chick who's one of the last surviving members of a martial arts order, check. Stolen sacred jade artifacts, check. Aforementioned geeky yet attractive love interest, check. Gallivanting all over the world to exotic locals, check. Ass-kicking every twenty pages or so, check. Yep, definitely the text form of a kung fu flick. ;) It's got the occasional problem--for example, I caught one bit in the initial meeting between heroine Shan and love interest Ian that read weird, as if a line had been left out of the prose, and I couldn't really buy Shan referring to herself even in jest as a "kung-fu badass". But, it was fun for a super-fast, lightweight read nonetheless. Three stars.
It didn't hurt in the slightest, either, that the love interest in the book was a skinny, geeky scientific type with sticky-uppy brown hair, brown eyes, narrow features, and a prominent nose. And there were also several scenes towards the end where he was running around in a tuxedo. (Not that this reminded me of anybody, mind you. Nuh uh. I was purely coincidentally interested in that mental image, I swear.)
Ahem, where was I? Right! So, half-Chinese, half-American chick who's one of the last surviving members of a martial arts order, check. Stolen sacred jade artifacts, check. Aforementioned geeky yet attractive love interest, check. Gallivanting all over the world to exotic locals, check. Ass-kicking every twenty pages or so, check. Yep, definitely the text form of a kung fu flick. ;) It's got the occasional problem--for example, I caught one bit in the initial meeting between heroine Shan and love interest Ian that read weird, as if a line had been left out of the prose, and I couldn't really buy Shan referring to herself even in jest as a "kung-fu badass". But, it was fun for a super-fast, lightweight read nonetheless. Three stars.