Woven through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a page-turner of the highest order. 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.Ĭaptivating and lushly written, The Night Tiger explores the rich world of servants and masters, ancient superstition and modern ambition, sibling rivalry and unexpected love. As time runs out for Ren’s mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. One night, Ji Lin’s dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. Choo mixes these characters together in 1930s Malaysia in her gripping historical novel The Night Tiger, which Amazon editors picked as their number one Best Book of the Month for February. An English doctor with a secretor rather, many secrets. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother’s debts. A dancehall girl who gains possession of a cursed item. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master’s soul will roam the earth forever. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master’s severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ji Lin and Ren’s lives collide, colossally and momentously, in her mission to return the finger to its rightful owner and his mission to save his master’s soul. They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us… In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. ‘I was willingly propelled into a fascinating and exotic world’Daily Mail The Night Tiger takes readers on a magical adventure through 1930s Malaysia, where two young protagonists seek the truth about a mythical creature.

‘The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross… you won’t be able to put this one down!’Reese Witherspoon A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.

The night tiger book review