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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
What a story! It is a scary, enthralling adventure with foxes. Foxes!!! Storytelling at its best!
As a middle grade horror story, this was stellar. It's framed as a story-within-a-story. A litter of fox kits disobey mom and head out to hear the storyteller in the woods, who spins them some tales of warning and danger where not everyone makes it out alive. There's significant risk and danger, bravery and connections. And the payoff if you stay for the end of the story is worth it.
As an adult reader, however, there is a possibility that a certain chapter will ruin a childhood memory for you. You'll see what I mean (I don't want to spoil it!). That part is based on factual evidence….but adapted significantly for a children's horror story. Just fyi.
As an adult reader, however, there is a possibility that a certain chapter will ruin a childhood memory for you. You'll see what I mean (I don't want to spoil it!). That part is based on factual evidence….but adapted significantly for a children's horror story. Just fyi.
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was an absolutely awesome, weird, scary and oddly life-affirming book. Following young fox characters in a forest who gather to listen to a story teller tell scary stories, this novel is beautifully written with prose that takes you through a sweeping tour of the beauty and horror of forest life.
With a realism approaching works like “Bambi,” this novel is a wonderfully moving reflection on the importance of scary stories— how horror stories come to be, and their real world roots. Literary references from Poe to Stoker to Lovecraft to— maybe even more horrifically— Beatrix Potter abound and are remixed into the lives of these foxes in fascinating ways; but a reader, young or old, needs not to know the fiction of Lovecraft or the character of Count Dracula to find great meaning in these tales of young foxes Mia and Uly. A beautiful book.
With a realism approaching works like “Bambi,” this novel is a wonderfully moving reflection on the importance of scary stories— how horror stories come to be, and their real world roots. Literary references from Poe to Stoker to Lovecraft to— maybe even more horrifically— Beatrix Potter abound and are remixed into the lives of these foxes in fascinating ways; but a reader, young or old, needs not to know the fiction of Lovecraft or the character of Count Dracula to find great meaning in these tales of young foxes Mia and Uly. A beautiful book.
This is a fun little book that follows the tails of two little fox kits who are faced with many challenges. Presented as a set of six scary stories, the story eventually resolves into a single cohesive narrative. Cool cover, cool pictures, cool story, and FOXES!
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
it’s hard for me to rate this book fairly since it is SUCH a book intended for 8 yr olds, and I am definitely not an 8 yr old so it’s expected that I didn’t like it that much. It was bordering between not fun and just fine until the final “scary” story, which I actually kinda enjoyed, which bumped it from a 2 stars to a 2.75.