emma's Reviews > The Fox Wife

of course i want to read about magic fox girls.

but my favorite part of this was the food descriptions.

unfortunately, the rest was extremely repetitive. we have two perspectives, one of a fox girl and the other of an aging investigator, both of which sound interesting and aren't. each perspective just follows its respective protagonist as they go from the same place to the next, looking for the same thing, unchanging in themselves or in the plot. i waited for this book to pick up and it never did.

the writing was also strange—a lot of moments where something would happen, and then it would be rhetorically referred to as if it didn't. a character spots another character, and then 2 sentences later, when he starts speaking to her: "he'd managed to find me after all." like, no, he just saw you. we just talked about that. "she'd used her patron's name, hoping it would open doors. which it had." okay, why did we have to say that then. it resulted in me going back and rereading a lot of paragraphs and getting frustrated.

the ending and romance came out of nowhere, after hundreds of pages of sexual harassment, but there were parts of this i enjoyed.

i just wish there were more of them.

bottom line: more foxes, more food, less weirdness.

(2.5 / thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)