Friends, this was just not my thing.

For one, Shadow of the Fox was extremely episodic, which is not something I generally love. For another, I never felt particularly engaged with the story. This could definitely have been more to do with me and my mood today than the book itself, but I was just never that invested.

I liked the ideas behind it, but I wished they'd been explored a little more. Yumeko's kitsune powers were very interesting, but we barely get to see her use them because she spends most of the book hiding her true identity from her companions. While our two narrators were interesting enough, I never really felt like the other characters were very fleshed out. I never understood the motivations of our main villain, and I grew tired of Yumeko's main character trait (trusting to the point of naivete). The idea that she could blindly trust everyone she comes across and have that trust work out for her in nearly every case seemed pretty unrealistic to me.

All in all, just not my thing.