A Side of Panache

Welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense!  Sorry for taking so long in between posts, I've had a lot of Big Life Events in the way for the last month (i.e., interviews for a job next summer--the good news is I think I succeeded in finding something that will fit me really well!).  So, uh, to celebrate, I guess I'm getting back into this! Last time, Kelsey and Ren went on a date, which Kishan crashed.  That's pretty much it. I know there was a lot of filler at the beginning of Tiger's Curse , but this book is just ridiculous.  At about this point in the first book, Kelsey had already been introduced, spent some interminable chapters at the circus, travelled to India, found out that Ren was a dude, gotten Phet's weird blessing, and then chilled at Ren's mansion for an entire chapter. What's happened so far here?  Kelsey started going to class at WOU, but we haven't heard much about what she's been learning.  Uh, she dated three guys at ...

Welcome back to our irregularly scheduled nonsense!  Last time, Plot happened!  Well, the setup for later Plot, but it's still something.  Ren's name and picture have been published in a magazine (like, a physical magazine, rather than something like an online local news article, which would make  much more sense ), which means that it's now possible for Lokesh to find her.  Oh no!  What are they going to do to try to keep Lokesh from finding her? A fat load of  absolutely nothing , as this is another filler chapter where Kelsey just...hangs out with her two love interests instead of, uh, trying to not die, I guess. Neato. Chapter Nine: Kishan Also, Kishan is back!  I'm actually okay with this because I (kind of) like Kishan.  Sure, he's got a lot of the same bad qualities as Ren (overly violent and territorial), but he has an actual excuse for being like this, since he lived by himself as a tiger out in the wild for about three hundr...