read shadow of the fox by julie kagawa!
cindy’s back with the ever insistent message that you should read shadow of the fox by julie kagawa! why should you read it?
- found family
- immersed in beautiful japanese mythology
- high-stakes battles that deliver
- a non traditional heroine who isn’t a warrior but her growth is really beautiful and she’s strong anyway
- slowburn romance it’s the longing
- great humor, well developed characters
- literally if you’ve followed me this long and have not been interested in seeing tatsumi and yumeko like ??? have you been ignoring my textposts
- cindy recommends it !!! fangirl with cindy :)
don’t know what it’s about? here, i’ll paste the synopsis for you so you won’t be too lazy to google it <3
One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos.
Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn.
Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. 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.
There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to retrieve the scroll…at any cost. Fate brings Kage and Yumeko together. With a promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering Yumeko her best hope for survival. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and her deception could ultimately tear them both apart.
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. They are the key to the fate of the world itself.
Content and trigger warnings for graphic violence, graphic murder, graphic death, loss of a loved one, physical abuse, threat of rape, talk of suicide (seppuku), war themes, alcohol consumption, and insects (there is a scene with description of spiders, it is chapter 3)
