Burning Tigress

Tigress #4

by Jade Lee

Despite her mother's wrath, Charlotte Wicks, a young Englishwoman in Shanghai, sets out to discover the exotic secrets of the East with the help of a notorious womanizer who teaches her the fine art of seduction. Original.

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, China, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Paranormal

337 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2006

About the author

Librarian Note: Also writes under the pen name Kathy Lyons.

A USA Today Bestseller, JADE LEE has been scripting love stories since she first picked up a set of paper dolls. Ball gowns and rakish lords caught her attention early (thank you Georgette Heyer), and her fascination with the Regency began. An author of more than 40 romance novels and winner of dozens of industry awards, her latest series is RAKES AND ROGUES. The first one, 50 WAYS TO RUIN A RAKE, is an awesome tale of love and laughter.
And don’t forget Kathy Lyons.. She’s Jade’s paranormal half. Check out her new shifter series GRIZZLIES GONE WILD.
To find all the latest news on Jade or Kathy, visit them at www.jadeleeauthor.com or www.kathylyons.com! And find out where you can meet her at: http://jadeleeauthor.com/appearances

Reviews

[Deanna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Filled with sex with little emotion. We are told their is emotion but it is not there. The sex is cold. The pair are two-dimensional. The first part is slow. Then toward the end we get a little true emotion, but it about the past not the present.
I will not bother to read this series again. I was so intriqued by the Chinese philosphy and having an Asia hero. I really wanted to love this series. It just did not delivery.

[Andrea Jackson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it because it had an Asian male as hero and was in a culture/time period unusual for me in romance. But at times I thought the heroine's attitude was kind of imperialistic. The plot jumped around quite a bit. But love scenes were excellent. Both hero and heroine were alive. Some great insights into a new culture. Also kudos, for having a secondary character who was handicapped.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never really decided if this book was empowering or racist, and I guess I never will know for sure. The white heroine falls for a super-masculine, mysterious Chinese man. There’s a lot of weirdly clinical talk of yins and yangs and qi and how sex exchanges them. I gotta admit, though, it was pretty hot at times.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fourth in the Tigress series, all set in the exotic locale of China, namely Shanghai.

I haven't read these in order, which is why I am occasionally confused about the characters, but for the most part it's a self-contained, straight-forward story. This particular installment deals with Charlotte Wicks, a boisterous young woman living in Shanghai, and the household's First Boy, Ken Jin.

Charlotte, frustrated by the constraints of being an Englishwoman, wants to receive an education no one of her standing and acquaintance would dare to dream of. Similarly, Ken Jin is restless at his lack of equilibrium in life, having been cast away by his family for aiding the "ghost foreigners". Charlotte finds a set of erotic scrolls left for her by her friend, Joanna (from Hungry Tigress). Upon discovering such sacred texts in Charlotte's hands, Ken Jin's first task is to retrieve and return them to their rightful place. Charlotte does not release them from her possession willingly, not unless Ken Jin accepts her request to teach her what is revealed in the said scrolls.

Ken Jin and Charlotte have a powerful chemistry that takes a while to build up as they each tread the tentative path to Heaven but when it sets it is really palpable and even bittersweet, as they reach a point of self-awareness. Their cultural differences clash and intertwine to transcend towards something far greater and more potent—their union is complete and resplendent. As with Lee's other books, there is metaphor and philosophy laced within the prose that may seem either corny or poignant.

I found this even more enjoyable than Hungry Tigress. Hopefully it only gets better and better!

[Heather Wiese · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm sorry, I just didn't like this one at all. I actually read it quite awhile ago but then it went to the back of the review pile.

It's set in Shanghai, China in the late 1880s. Charlotte is English and the daughter of a wealthy family who is living there for business. Ken Jin is Chinese and a servant to Charlotte's father.

The first page has Charlotte accidentally walking in on Ken Jin using acupuncture needles on himself and her remarking on "what a large penis he has!" What?

Charlotte goes to visit her friend, who she just found out apparently married a Chinese monk, and discovers scrolls of explicit sexual acts and takes them. She then decides that she wants Ken Jin to teach her these things (because apparently he has a reputation of "pleasuring" high class women).

There are a LOT of stereotypes on both sides (which was probably accurate at the the time), about 50 references to Ken Jin's "dragon" and pages of him calling her a slut.

There were also references to yin and yang, and qi, which could have been way more interesting, but I just don't think it was handled well.

Basically Ken Jin's whole thing was that he wanted to ascend to Heaven through the use of his yang energy and they way he built his energy was through the sexual release of his female partners' yin.

There were other things that bothered me (like her brother being mentally handicapped because Charlotte had "her shadow" over him), but I'm already exhausted with just this.

[Jo Notary]

2 of 6 books
356p Can sex be the gateway to an ancient mystical realm unheard of in the West? According to Chinese Tantrics, the answer is YES.
In Jade Lee's award-winning Tigress series, western women discover that sex is not simply for pleasure, but for religious ecstasy. Who will come out on top? The Western Tigress or the Chinese Dragon? And is the new erotic realm they discover LOVE?
BURNING TIGRESS (The Way of the Tigress, Book 4)
A Chinese seducer's only hope is to lure a western woman into his darkest eroticism. But the white woman he chooses is much more than he bargained for.
Charlotte Wicks wants more than just bedsport. She wants Heaven on Earth. But she doesn 19t see the dangers, and her seducer is the only one who can keep her safe.

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are keeping up with this series, its book 4. Its about a spoiled white woman (Charlotte) who has a handicap brother, a fanatically religious mother, a cheating, low-life father and a Chinese servant which all live in China. Her best friend has just run off with another Chinese man (In book 2) and left her some sacred scrolls that depict different sexual poses. Not understanding the poses, she goes to her servant and ask him to explain and show her how to perform each step. He shows her some of them and she ascends to the Outer chamber of Heaven without him. LOL... You'll have to read the rest of what happens to these two.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the idea of a forbidden love. Inter racial romances always incites conflict, disapproval, ostracism and sometime hatred.
The writer could have gone into detail with the difficulties such a romance would have experienced. Especially white society's response to an Oriental Man of that class touching a White Woman.
This crossed not only the class barrier but also the colour barrier during a time when society was less tolerant than they are today.
I like the idea that they still ended up together but more conflict would have made it more realistic.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I was reading this book, I started freaking out! After a while I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to finish the book because I didn't have a good feeling about it. I thought for sure he was going to lose his dragon and his dragon pearls. I am so happy he didn't and he and Char ended up together with a cub, as they put it, on the way. I was so relieved and I have ended been afraid to finish a book before.

[Monique · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF - What can I say? They both sounded like idiots. The "spiritual" talk was way less interesting and spiritual than in other books in this series and the social and cultural implications seem to have disappeared entirely.

[Ester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jade Lee never disappoints with her stories. The characters were engaging and the Chinese culture was woven in perfectly. I love learning about China's history with Jade's books. The steamy love scenes kept me riveted to my e-reader. It was hard to put down.

[Mitzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK Book

[Daisy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing like a good, smutty romance novel.

[Yan · Rating 3 out of 5]

the idea of 'Taoist method of going to heaven' doesn't go down well with me. i find it too fantastical. a bit far-fetched. i like the subplot written in epistolary style, through.

[Erotic Horizon]

Burning Tigress (Leisure Historical Romance) by Jade Lee (2006)

[Jillian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite different for a romance novel!