In Quest, his complete, total, and utter devotion to Kelsey is revealed even more, and, especially in the beginning before he takes a little hiatus so to speak (I'm trying hard to not ruin this for people! Hahah) I felt my breath get taken away whenever he talked to Kelsey like he was looking up at me with his baby blues and talking to me, it was so real.

Have I said I love this book? Because, yeah, I love this book.Īnd Ren.

He's just a piece of work in more ways than one ) Houck really made me grow attached to the bad-boy character that most authors just can't seem to work out. And guess what, he's not pretending to be angsty and shallow because he wants to keep Kelsey distant so that she falls in love with his douchy self! He actually has a normal reason other than he's 'dangerous!' Gasp! But he wasn't just dark and moody, he was absolutely hilarious! He has a very snarky voice, kind of like Will and Jem in Infernal/Mortal devices series by Cassandra Clare which I found utterly refreshing. If anything, he's got more character depth than Ren at least in this book, due to his struggle throughout with accepting both sides of himself and integrating back into society through those small windows that Houck shows us when he doesn't pretend to be devastatingly shallow in order to hide all of that pain like the scene in the dream meadow where we get to see his true side (that was sooo cute). So when Colleen Houck introduced Kishan in Curse, I was a little scared, but, in Quest, Colleen totally solves this for me by making Kelsey travel with Kishan, and we learn that beneath all of his cockyness and down-right rudeness, is someone who lives every-day with the pain of his decisions that he made hundreds of years ago, and that he truly cares, unlike most bad boys who are either totally evil or we never get the total character-fleshing that we got in Quest. Most bad-boys in novels always stay aloof, and I know that they are supposed to be irritating like that, but most YA novels have crossed the line, heck, practically leaped over it, and have annoyed me soo much that I've just wanted to put down the book. This one was sooo much better than the first (and the first was amazing), and if I had any questions or doubts or misgivings about this series, they were completely destroyed by Quest.įirst off, Kishan. Oh, oh, oh! I just have one thing to say about this novel, wow.

Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck