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    The Tiger Catcher: The End of Forever Saga
    The Tiger Catcher: The End of Forever Saga
    The Tiger Catcher: The End of Forever Saga
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Tiger Catcher: The End of Forever Saga

    Written by Paullina Simons

    Narrated by Jeremy Arthur

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons returns with a sweeping new saga guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and fall in love.

    All the colors of your world are about to disappear…

    Young and handsome, Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. His world is turned upside down by a love affair with Josephine, a mysterious young woman who takes him by storm. But she is not what she seems, carrying secrets that tear them apart—perhaps forever.

    So begins Julian and Josephine’s extraordinary adventure of love, loss, and the mystical forces that bind people together across time and space. It is a journey that propels Julian toward either love fulfilled…or oblivion.

    The Tiger Catcher takes readers from the dizzying heights of joy to the depths of despair and back again in an unforgettable new novel from a master storyteller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9780062892225
    The Tiger Catcher: The End of Forever Saga
    Author

    Paullina Simons

    Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad in 1963. As a child she emigrated to Queens, New York, and attended colleges in Long Island. Then she moved to England and attended Essex University, before returning to America. She lives in New York with her husband and children.

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    • 4/5
      Young and handsome, Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. His world is turned upside down by a love affair with Josephine, a mysterious young woman who takes him by storm. But she is not what she seems, carrying secrets that tear them apartâperhaps forever.I enjoyed the first part of this book but it slowed down in the middle but picked up again towards the end. This book could fit many genres - magical realism, romance, historical, time travel. So, it has a lot happening and is the first part of a trilogy. I found it interesting and I think the second book will flow better since everything has been explained in the first book. I have read Red Leaves by Simons and I enjoyed the mystery of that book. I look forward to reading her Bronze Horseman Trilogy and I would recommend this book to those who like the genres that I mentioned above. Thanks to LibraryThing and William Morrow Publishers for an advanced copy for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      The Tiger Catcher is a captivating start to a romantic saga. It's filled with magic and tragedy that will pull at your heartstrings. I did have trouble connecting with the characters at first but as I read on I began to fall in love with them. This isn't a book to rush into but rather to savor and enjoy reading a cinematic journey. People who enjoy romance, epic love stories and time travel will enjoy following this new series by Paullina Simons.
    • 4/5
      A great summer romance to take along to the beach or enjoy by the pool
    • 4/5
      This book reads like the first book in a series, just setting up for the rest of the story instead of being a complete story in itself. It was fairly enjoyable, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys slightly magical romance. But a word of caution - best have the next book in the series ready to go when you finish!
    • 3/5
      I was disappointed in this book overall. It is supposed to be a love story, but the relationship between the two main characters seems superficial. Julian breaks up with his current girlfriend because he falls instantly in love with another girl, Josephine. The instantaneous love feels fake sadly. The most redeeming quality of the book was a dramatic switch in scenes for the second half where the author does a great job of changing writing styles to fit.
    • 4/5
      I have read previous books by this author and love her writing. This book was not as epic an adventure for me, but it was definitely intriguing, different and had hints of fantasy/magic in it.Julian is madly in love with Josephine. There relationship begins extremely fast and it's intense. When a tragedy occurs, Julian stumbles across a women who inadvertently leads him to a shaman. His love for Josephine is so live consuming, he embarks on the most daring adventure to reconnect with his lost love. I will definitely be reading the next two books in this trilogy! I received a complimentary book as part of the Librarything Early Reviewers.
    • 2/5
      On a trip from LA to NYC, Julian is drawn to an actress he sees in a play. When he sees her again in LA, a love story that will never die begins. Or so that's what is supposed to happen. The book was so disjointed and never seemed to provide enough details to pull you in, yet at times providing unnecessary information. It took me months to get through this book (and I normally take a few days). Then, just when you think there is a point to it all, it starts getting disjointed again.
    • 2/5
      The premise of the Tiger Catcher, that great love knows no particular time or place, would have felt more true had the love story been more believable. I’ve read the Bronze Horseman trilogy and I know that Paullina Simons can write about great love, but it didn’t work for me here. I didn’t understand the draw that the characters felt towards each other and the rushed timeline didn’t help. I was also distracted by the vocabulary the characters used and their conversations; the tone was off, and just this side of believable, making it hard to buy the story. While I enjoyed some of the twists and parallels, I was expecting more.
    • 2/5
      I loved how this book started out, but there was too much going on in this book. Started as a love story, then a tragedy, then fantasy and then historical fiction. I feel like this book was written with the intention of not really finishing the story in order to pick it up in another book. Unfortunately, it made the second half of this book really drag.
    • 3/5
      I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.There'll be another time for you and me.There'll never be another time for you and me.In what is a planned trilogy, The Tiger Catcher introduces us to Julian and his love and obsession for Josephine Collins. From the moment he sees her on stage he is captivated and can't believe when he sees her again months later across the country in a book store. Simons' has this couple's story swirling questions of fate, destiny, mere coincidence, or eons of soul searching. Written in an ephemeral tone, the sentences are shorter at times and moments with and between Julian and Josephine felt like short bursts of energy; the texture of the story takes some getting used to.The majority of the story is told from Julian's point of view which I think hurt my personal connection to Josephine but probably works for what the author is going for in regards to the overall series structure. After Julian reconnects with Josephine, he immediately breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes consumed with her. He has a very close friend named Ashton that from the beginning is very wary of Josephine and at first you'll probably read it as jealousy; Josephine also has a friend, Zakiyyah, that reads the same way. The story takes a turn, however, and details are revealed about Josephine and the bubble Julian has been living in gets popped.Be careful who you pretend to be.The beginnings chaotic happiness is contrasted with the middles abject grief and Julian ends up wandering London and addicted to Klonopin as he deals with the loss of his Josephine. With the knowledge the reader now has about Josephine, there won't be much empathy for this character and Julian's views, thoughts, and emotions start to read very skewed; the beginning feeling of soulmates will be questioned. The writing style of this part made it hard for me to really connect to the characters and therefore this extended wallowing made the story drag. If you have read Simons before though, you'll know that little, seemingly innocuous details, can later have high importance, this thinking kept me locked in.Julian was no one on a river of nothing on the way to nowhere, all because a Hmong shaman said, you want to see her again?The later half brings in the mystical aspects that the writing style and tone were working for and the pace started to pick up again. I love when author's take real things, like the Prime Meridian and Transit Circle, and infuse them with myth while utilizing them in fantastical ways. The story shifts from grounded in reality to time travel as the Hmong shaman, Devi, Julian fortuitously or destined found his way to, tells him that while Josephine may be lost to him in this world, he can find her in another. The story then shifts to the year 1603.“But they still won't be cheering for you, Lady Mary,” Julian says. “They'll be applauding for the thing you're putting on for them, for someone else. Don't you want to be loved for the young woman you actually are?”“Don't speak to me so presumptuously about love,” she says. “And no, I want to be loved for the woman I pretend to be.”This part of the story I really struggled with, as even though, Mary (aka Josephine) is supposed to be more immature, it makes Julian's obsession with her even more frustrating. If it is the author's intent to make you feel this way because the payoff and understanding develops in the second or third book, I suppose that is understandable since reader's go in knowing this is a trilogy but it still makes this first book a struggle to get through. This latter thirty percent or so, was all Mary being a brat and introducing the idea that maybe we can't change the threads of our fate, predestined is predestined. Heavy questions but not relayed with very enjoyable characters to read about; my relationship with even Julian became very frayed here.The story ends with Julian leaning toward a possible cataclysmic decision. The fabric of the story and characters was a little murky at times and I wish we could have gotten to know Julian's friend Ashton better (the real love of Julian's life perhaps?). Their friendship was the highlight of the story for me and the only one that rang true. What I found missing could easily be by design because of the trilogy aspect but I'm not sure I connected with or was pulled in enough to read on in the series.
    • 5/5
      I guess some other people didn't like this book as much as her other books; but I've never read any of her other books and I was delighted with this one! First of all, I love time travel-ish books, so this was just great, and it's just a nice heart warming love story. Ok, maybe not high literature, but I devoured it in an afternoon, and that's worth 4.5 stars to me!
    • 4/5
      Linda’s Book Obsession Reviews “The Tiger Catcher” by Paullina Simons, William Morrow, an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishing, May 28, 2019Paullina Simons, Author of “The Tiger Catcher The End of Forever Saga” has written the first part of a trilogy. This is an intense, edgy, captivating, dramatic, enthralling, and emotional read. The Genres for this book are Fiction, with some input of Magical Realism, Romance, Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Fairy Tale, and Adventure. I had a difficult time trying to decide on what best genre fits, and I think a case can be made for all those mentioned. I found this to be a difficult and thought-provoking read as I was reading the second half of the novel. There are different time periods, and the story takes place in Los Angeles and England. The author describes are characters as complex and complicated. Some are obsessed, quirky and dysfunctional.Julian writes a column for a newspaper in Los Angeles, has good friends and seems to be doing well. He meets an aspiring actress, Josephine and immediately becomes obsessed and drawn to her. There seems to be some magical essence that brings there world together. Julian is determined to spend his life with Josephine, no matter what. Just like in the song, “I Will Follow Him” sung by Little Peggy March, Julian will follow Josephine anyway, anytime, anyhow.This is a book of twists and turns. Is Josephine who she says she is? There are deep dark secrets that can lead anywhere. I would recommend this novel for those readers who enjoy a dark, intense, thought-provoking novel.