Bruce, who is a martial artist, loaned me this book. When he had read about half, he said the relationship parts of this book were irritating but the fighting was OK. Further on he commented the heroine being so exceptionally good at everything was also irritating and didn't seem necessary for the plot. He also strongly disapproved when 2 characters disobeyed their martial arts teacher during training and weren't ashamed after.
I always skim over fights in books, so I won’t comment on that. I found the relationship stuff irritatingly repetitive for the first third, but after that I didn’t find it irritating. In fact I liked it, and found the book as a whole an interesting read. However I think this book could have done with some editing. Too many things are said too often, and too many heavy handed hints are dropped, and the book moves a bit slowly in parts. Hopefully these are first book faults.
I enjoyed the use of Chinese mythology by Kylie Chan in this book. I have read some Chinese folktales and a very little Chinese mythology, but I feel inspired to read more now. I will be reading the next in the trilogy.
White Tiger was first published in 2006
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