It was cool to read about some of the stops along the way for the characters as they worked to reach their goal. The plot was pretty straightforward and I didn’t mind the slow pace in which it developed. The writing was very easy to get into and I quite enjoyed Yumeko and Tatsumi’s perspectives–even when they were a bit too naive and angsty for me. I had fun getting lost in this new world and its characters, but it was nothing that blew my mind or captured my heart. Shadow of the Fox was a quick and easy read with those classic YA Fantasy vibes. Even the humans themselves don’t do a great job of it.” “It is very hard to be human, little fox. They are the key to the fate of the world itself. With an army of demons at her heels and the unlikeliest of allies at her side, Yumeko’s secrets are more than a matter of life or death. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and her deception could ultimately tear them both apart. With a promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering Yumeko her best hope for survival. Kage Tatsumi, a mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to retrieve the scroll…at any cost. There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Until the day her home is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure-one part of the ancient scroll.

Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted.

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