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loverofwolves 's review for:
A Black Fox Running
by Brian Carter
I’m surprised to see so much praise for this book. It’s not very well written – extremely repetitive and boring, with various grammatical mistakes. The author is obviously very passionate about Dartmoor, where the story is set, but he gets carried away with pages and pages of descriptions of various places that go on and on and ON, while you keep waiting for something to actually happen.
The main character, Wulfgar the fox, is just not very nice. He’s selfish and prideful, and seems to care more about Stargrief, another male fox – who would be seen as a rival in real life – than he does about his mate and cubs. This is just one of several factual errors. The villains are a cruel, wildlife-hating old man and his mindlessly vicious lurcher, both of whom want nothing more than to kill wild animals and are thoroughly unpleasant. And the author really did not need to mention faeces so often.
The edition I read has a foreword that states the author named the fox deity, Tod, after the German word for death. Personally I think it’s obvious the author meant “tod” as in the old English word for fox – he clearly likes using old-fashioned terms for animals, since we also get “brock” for badger and “fitch” for stoat (although fitch actually means a polecat). Perhaps the foreword should have been written by someone with a bit more knowledge of foxes (though I could say the same about the whole book!).
The main character, Wulfgar the fox, is just not very nice. He’s selfish and prideful, and seems to care more about Stargrief, another male fox – who would be seen as a rival in real life – than he does about his mate and cubs. This is just one of several factual errors. The villains are a cruel, wildlife-hating old man and his mindlessly vicious lurcher, both of whom want nothing more than to kill wild animals and are thoroughly unpleasant. And the author really did not need to mention faeces so often.
The edition I read has a foreword that states the author named the fox deity, Tod, after the German word for death. Personally I think it’s obvious the author meant “tod” as in the old English word for fox – he clearly likes using old-fashioned terms for animals, since we also get “brock” for badger and “fitch” for stoat (although fitch actually means a polecat). Perhaps the foreword should have been written by someone with a bit more knowledge of foxes (though I could say the same about the whole book!).