The Night Tiger: A Novel, Nominiert: Amazon.com Best Books of the Year 2019, Nominiert: Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine 2019
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‚The Night Tiger’ is a wonderful and mystic story set in British-Malaya in the 1930s. It tells the story of Ji Lin, Shin and Ren who are entangled in a superstition about souls who will roam the earth if their bodies are buried incomplete, about men turning into tigers and about lives intertwined because they are pieces of a set of Chinese virtues. Ren has to reunite his master’s body with a severed finger he lost a while ago and he only has 49 days to fulfill this task. Needless to say that it is not as easy as it seems and fate often gets in his way. This beautiful and lush story is built around colonialism, Chinese folklore, superstitions, love and rivalry.
I really liked everything about the culture and time period: I hardly knew anything about Malaysia before and learning something about it was my favourite thing about the book. How Chinese Malaysians and British people lived together was portrayed (and influenced the plot) in an interesting way. Otherwise, this was a case of really liking one POV and not caring for the other. The story of Ren and William Actom was really engaging. They are two very different characters, but both inspired by the past and the possibility of a supernatural influence. I found them both pretty likable, too. Ren wants to find the severed thinger of his former master and belives working as a houseboy for William will help, thereby finding out about his relationships to various people and what influences them. The conflicts felt weight- and meaningful and there was a nice twist. Ji Lin`s story was like mostly light romantic suspense and I didn't ship it. This really becoming a romance takes some time to develope, but the more I found out about this guy's drives, the more I felt he was just a douche. I liked her troubled family and work situation in the beginning but the plot becomes convoluted in various places and I noticed I cared less and less as I read on. Even though there were obvious connections between the two stories, they sometimes felt so vastly different in tone and genre. I overal enjoyed my time with it, though it didn't feel like a complete experience.
Beiträge
‚The Night Tiger’ is a wonderful and mystic story set in British-Malaya in the 1930s. It tells the story of Ji Lin, Shin and Ren who are entangled in a superstition about souls who will roam the earth if their bodies are buried incomplete, about men turning into tigers and about lives intertwined because they are pieces of a set of Chinese virtues. Ren has to reunite his master’s body with a severed finger he lost a while ago and he only has 49 days to fulfill this task. Needless to say that it is not as easy as it seems and fate often gets in his way. This beautiful and lush story is built around colonialism, Chinese folklore, superstitions, love and rivalry.
I really liked everything about the culture and time period: I hardly knew anything about Malaysia before and learning something about it was my favourite thing about the book. How Chinese Malaysians and British people lived together was portrayed (and influenced the plot) in an interesting way. Otherwise, this was a case of really liking one POV and not caring for the other. The story of Ren and William Actom was really engaging. They are two very different characters, but both inspired by the past and the possibility of a supernatural influence. I found them both pretty likable, too. Ren wants to find the severed thinger of his former master and belives working as a houseboy for William will help, thereby finding out about his relationships to various people and what influences them. The conflicts felt weight- and meaningful and there was a nice twist. Ji Lin`s story was like mostly light romantic suspense and I didn't ship it. This really becoming a romance takes some time to develope, but the more I found out about this guy's drives, the more I felt he was just a douche. I liked her troubled family and work situation in the beginning but the plot becomes convoluted in various places and I noticed I cared less and less as I read on. Even though there were obvious connections between the two stories, they sometimes felt so vastly different in tone and genre. I overal enjoyed my time with it, though it didn't feel like a complete experience.