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    Tiger Eye: The First Dirk & Steele Novel

    By Marjorie Liu

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    Long ago they roamed the earth -- dragons, tigers…shapeshifters -- men who wore the forms of beasts. Their world was magic. Now it is gone.

    But some remain…

    He looks out of place in Dela Reese's Beijing hotel room -- exotic and poignant, some mythic, tragic hero of an epic tale. With his feline yellow eyes, he's like nothing from her world. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul, and knows this warrior will obey her every command.

    Hari has been used and abused for millennia. But he sees, upon his release from the riddle box, that this new mistress is different. There is a hidden power in Dela's eyes -- and with her, he may regain all that was lost to him. Where once he savaged, now he must protect; where before he knew only hatred, now he must embrace love. Dela is the key.

    For Dela, he will risk all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 8, 2010
    ISBN9780062013712
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    Tiger Eye: The First Dirk & Steele Novel
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    Marjorie Liu

    Marjorie Liu is the New York Times bestselling author of the Monstress series, illustrated by Sana Takeda. She also writes for Marvel Comics, including Black Widow, X-23, and Astonishing X-Men. Marjorie teaches comic book writing at MIT and divides her time between Boston, Massachusetts, and Tokyo, Japan.

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    Reviews for Tiger Eye

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    • 3/5
      This book was not for me. I thought that it might be the case but I wanted to try it anyways. I'd never read anything by the author but know of her comic book work and the description of the book sounded so kick butt that I hoped the romance angle would be pretty low key, unfortunately I was wrong. Many times during the book either during an action or when the character's should have taken action, they reflected on their feelings, it really slowed down the pacing.

      I think if you like romance or paranormal romance you should ignore this review and give this book a try. The writing is good and I liked many of the elements of the plot. The low number of stars reflects my own preferences.

      edit I just reread this and I liked it a lot more the 2nd time, 2 stars bumped up to 3.5. I'm going to read the next book in the series and maybe we can get it up to a solid 4 stars.
    • 2/5
      So, were-tiger sounded kind of cool to me and it was a Kindle daily deal.

      Unfortunately, Dela is a first-order Mary Sue and the male hero is more caveman than "alpha male" in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      its magical! A great love story with all the element: mystery, action, humor, magic, and above all Love! I can't wait to read more! I hope this is not the end...??
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book! I just couldn't stop reading.
    • 5/5
      READ.THIS.BOOK
      You won't regret it
    • 3/5
      This book was a fun read, full of action and heady amounts of devotion.
    • 5/5
      Love this book
    • 5/5
      I have read a few things about this series and I started reading I think book number six a long time ago when I didn't even realize it was part of a series and I didn't finish it because I was so confused. Now I know why, lol. (Yes, I just LOL in my review) I really am glad I found this book at my PX and was able to grab it because I love this book. It is well written, strongly charactered, and it really made me think of the Psy-chageling series by Nalini Singh, which I adore.

      Let's jump in shall we? I like Dela (love her name too), she is strong, she has weaknesses and strengths and she isn't afraid to be herself, these are all wonderful heroine characteristics. I heart Hari (hate his name) he is strong, masculine, and just hot. I think he was a bit too lenient on the trust after everything he has been through, but I don't know Dela as well as he does, so what do I know. I do also want to say that nothing scares Ms. Lui...the way she set up the plot and some of the disturbing things mentioned here and there....creepy, disturbing, and totally appropriate for the book. Some authors might have shied away.

      I will continue to devour this series.
    • 4/5
      This book is the first in the Dirk & Steele series. Book has 272 pages on the Nook. I Liked this first novel by Marjorie M. Liu. She introduces us into a world of magical, paranormal and shape shifting characters. Dela is a metal artist with an affinity to metal, while Hari is a shape shifter, these two meet right out of the box. The story will keep you reading at a good pace.

      He looks out of place in Dela Reese's Beijing hotel room- exotic and poignant, some mythic, tragic hero of an epic tale. With his feline yellow eyes, he's like nothing from her world. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul and knows this warrior will obey her every command.

      Hari has been used and abused for millennia. But he sees, upon his release from the riddle box, that this new mistress is different. There is a hidden power in Dela's eyes- and with her, he may regain all that was lost to him. Where once he savaged, now he must protect; where once he only knew hatred, now he must embrace love. Dela is the key. For Dela, he will risk all.
    • 5/5
      This ties with Black Dagger Brotherhood as my favorite series. Ms. Liu is A brilliant author, her ability to draw complex characters and plot lines is breath-taking.

      This book is the first one in the series, laying the foundation. Hari has to be one of the sexiest male leads! I find myself identifying with Dela so much, and I wish I had the same friendships as Dela.

      This is a must read book.
    • 3/5
      Recent events reminded me that I still needed to read the Dirk & Steele series, beyond TIGER EYE. Straight up romance with a shape-changer twist, interested in seeing how this series has evolved over the years.
    • 5/5
      While working in China, Sword maker and artist, Dela Reese, visits Beijing's Dirt Market and is sold a mysterious box with a curious riddle attached to it. When she finally gets the box open, imagine her surprise when a handsome, seven foot tall warrior pops out like a genie from a bottle.Enslaved to the owner of the magic box he's tied to, one-time shape shifter, Hari, is wary of the half naked woman who has summoned him. Cursed by a dark magi two thousand yrs ago and forced to commit unspeakable acts, he longs to be free from his wretched existence.Although not unaware of the magical side of life and a psychically gifted person herself, even Dela has hard time believing Hari's story. But when faced with the evidence that every word he's spoken is true, her kind hearted nature shines forth as she sets about to help him find his freedom.Hari follows Dela across the world, desperately hoping that finally- FINALLY- he's found a person to trust, all the while helpless to stop protecting her- especially when faced with the reappearance of his ancient adversary, the dark magi who wants nothing more than to kill Dela and get his hands back on the mystical box.Danger, intrigue and the healing power of love abounds in this sensual, and well developed novel. Liu is a talented story teller. I found her writing flawless and thought on more than one occasion that THIS was the story that should have been Cabal's from Lora Leigh's Breed series (Bengal's Heart). (True, one is a Tiger Shifter and the other a genetically enhanced Mix Breed- but, well, you get the idea!)Hari and Dela fell in love very quickly, but they didn't fight it. The sexual tension was kept high throughout the novel, even though the author kept them from the inevitable culmination of their passionate relationship till towards the end. I loved both the Hero and the Heroine, as well as the side characters who make up the Dirk and Steele detective agency. (Cannot wait to get to some of their stories!)Tiger Eye is billed as the first Dirk & Steele novel, but somehow it felt like there may have been some before it? Still, it's a perfectly fine place to begin the series and I found myself rushing out and buying the rest.

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    • 3/5
      Tiger Eye: The First Dirk & Steele Novel starts off with a bang and then fizzles. And fizzles. And fizzles. It's got a textbook saggy middle, full of downtime and non-events that completely killed my interest in the story.

      So the story is that Dela opens this little box and conjures Hari, who will be her slave until the day she dies. That sounds like a great source of conflict, right? Hari doesn't want to be a slave, she doesn't want to own him, but she can't get rid of him without subjecting him to a worse fate. Well, the first thing Dela does is swear never, ever to use the command that will force him to obey her. Conflict resolved.

      There's still the question of ending the curse entirely, so that Hari's next master can't control him, and getting back his tiger skin, so that he can change form, but that first encounter tells us everything we need to know about how Liu will approach those problems: she will get them out of the way as fast as possible.

      Instead of actual problems, we get lots and lots of sappy stuff. Hari is so grateful that Dela is a good person! Dela is so sorry that she can't be more helpful! They wring their hands and hop in the sack and then wring their hands some more. Every now and again an assassin pops up, but Hari is an immortal warrior and Dela has a backup squad of devoted, special-forces-style sidekicks, so all the assassination attempts aren't scary at all. The good guys way outclass the bad guys.

      These attacks only result in more hand-wringing: Dela is so sad when other people are hurt protecting her! Her friends want her to know that she's worth dying for! One of the bad guys is trying to kill her because she forged the knife used to murder his niece. This strikes me as wildly irrational; get mad at the murderer, sure, but the person who made the murder weapon? It's hard to swallow; I've never heard about vigilantes attacking gun manufacturers, for example. Even more bizarre is the fact that Dela makes knives for a living and feels really, really guilty when someone uses one of her knives to kill. I got so sick of the hand wringing -- Dela feels so bad that this girl died, even though she had nothing to do with it! Her friends want her to know that she doesn't need to feel guilty! Yada yada.

      There are all sorts of other problems that could develop in the romance but...they don't. Are Dela and Hari ready to make a long term commitment? Instantly! Does Dela find tigers erotic, or freak out about the idea of having sex with one? Nope! What about kids, are they ready for that? Sure! Even if the kids turn out to be tiger babies? No worries! There is literally no conflict between Dela and Hari. Or in the book, in general.

      Tiger Eye: The First Dirk & Steele Novel is well written, and I've liked Liu books before, but this one is a dud.
    • 4/5
      Delilah Reese is in China on buisness when a mysterious old woman sells her a puzzel box whose riddle turns out to be more than what she bargained for. Hari is a centuries old shapeshifter cursed by the wizard who stole his skin to be enslaved to anyone who opens his box.Although this states that it is the first Dirk and Steele book, it doesn't read like a first story. However, this didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the book. The only other story I've read so far in the universe was a the short story in the "Dark Dreamer" antholgy and so far I like the way this author writes and her characters (particularly her side characters for some reason). I'm certainly happy to read more of these stories in the future.
    • 3/5
      Ok so.... I admit. I'm a fan of cheesy romance. They're usually fun, light, over-dramatic reads that kind of make you feel better about yourself because you're not in one. This one seemed to get good reviews... well really it was a bunch of women squeeing over it, and the plot sounds right up my paranormal romance alley. Dela Reese has psi powers... she gets this Chinese magic puzzle box, and when she opens it out pops this ginormous exotic 7-foot-tall warrior man who can of course shapeshift into a tiger. I'm down with that. I get into the story, wading through a few long-winded romancey conversations about how they can't live without each other, and rush through the page turning bits when Dela's life is in danger. And then BAM!!!!! Tiger Sex. I literally paused in my reading and went.... "Wha?!" Kinda shattered the happy image I had in my little inhibited head. :P I actually will pick up the next few books in the series because I actually liked how Liu presented her shape-shifters. They're pretty rad people, and I want to know what happens to them. But... I'll be skipping the hot and heavy hairball bits.
    • 5/5
      I can't believe I didn't read these book sooner. Liu manages to create an amazing world where the paranormal seems so natural and even manages to bring a cliched concept to an amazin conclusion and keep me hooked the whole time.
    • 5/5
      Wow. Now I see what everyone was raving about. This is one of those books I was hesitant to read because there was just so much hype about it. And again, the hype was well-deserved. It appears to be the start of a series about characters with a wide variety of paranormal and/or psychic abilities. The heroine, an artist with a psychic affinity for metal, is in China on vacation, where an old woman convinces her to buy a puzzle box, which, when she opens it, contains a shape-shifting warrior who's been cursed to be a slave to the owner of the box. The magi who cursed him is now after both of them, and there's an assassin after her as well.
    • 5/5
      Dela Reese has some unusual friends. Psychic herself, with a unique talent for metal working, she's still stunned when she opens an ancient riddle box and a 2000-year-old warrior pops out. Hari, a warrior and shapeshifter (when in possession of his tiger skin), was trapped in the riddle box by an evil Magi. Now Dela and Hari must track down the Magi before he finds them, all while keeping Dela safe from the murderous assassins she's somehow managed to attract.This may be Liu's debut novel, but it doesn't read like a first time effort. The underlying plot isn't too original -- warriors trapped in boxes, books, scrolls, swords, etc. abound -- but what Liu does with the premise and her characters makes this an eminently readable story. I will definitley be adding Liu to my "authors to watch for" list.
    • 3/5
      Fun story with a psychic who understands metal and a shapeshifter trapped in a magical box and what happens when he's released and she starts finding out about him and herself.