It’s about life after death, love, siblings’ affection, abuse, feminism and awakening of women by discovering their own capabilities, murder, passion, class system, Malaysian and Chinese folklore with vivid characters and captivating storytelling. It helped that there was a mystical connection between characters and storylines, so I kept seeing the same themes and events. The idea of the matched set of five, the importance of couplets of items, the ominousness of the number 49, and the luckiness of six and eight appear so frequently that it edges on ludicrosity.

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world. In Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger, the two main characters, Ji and Ren, are named for two of the five virtues that make up the ethical system of Confucianism.In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin's paths will cross in ways they will never forget.

For example, there was supposed to be some sort of an important meaning about the meeting of the characters with the names of Confucian virtues but in the end it went nowhere. Leslie Rawlings performs an autopsy on Ambika and suspects she was first poisoned before the tiger mauled her body. The characters are both recognizable and memorable, and the resolution…will keep readers guessing and turning the pages until the very last one. The other problem I had was that while I placed a hold on both the e book and the audiobook at my library at the same time, the audio version became available first. Now, I’m wondering why I don’t read more of these types of books and am thinking maybe I should lower my defenses and try reading more of them.

Along the way, he crosses paths with Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker who's forced to be a part time dance-hall girl to pay off her mother's debt. Before he takes his last breath, MacFarlane gives Ren a mission: Find the doctor’s missing finger, amputated years ago and now in the possession of a friend, and bury it in his grave before the 49 days of the soul have elapsed. Each of these is impressive, but most impressive is Choo's ability to weave them all together in a way that feels authentic, and to use that intricate process to tell a story of colonialism and self-determination, love and death, family and tradition. It drew me in with its promise of magical realism and the two protagonists' journey of growing up and self-discovery. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Sankara, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.

But misfortune and death seem to follow Ren on his journey to seek out the finger — tigers pick dogs off the streets and strange killings are happening.The sky turned the color of iron, and the electric light had to be switched on, much to the dismay of the management. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a beautifully-written novel that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Moreover, the story moved from the mythology oriented story into a who-dunnit which was a bit confusing. There are rules that everyone knows, that govern all existence and death — and punishments doled out for failing to observe them.