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A review by alongreader
F.O.X.E.S. by M.A. Bennett
4.0
FOXES is the third book in the increasingly lengthy STAGS series. So far, every book I've read I thought was the last one. Not because I'm not enjoying it; just because I don't know how much longer MA can make basically the same story intriguing and interesting. The answer is, at least this long.
There are a lot of pop culture references in this one. I don't remember there being this many in the two earlier books, but to be fair it's been a year since I read the last one and another year before that since the first one.
MA has, as always, done a lot of research and dredged up a lot of English history to weave into the story. It hovers on the verge of being too much, but because we're discovering it at the same time as Greer - and for the one piece she knew already, Shafeen luckily needs to be told - it's kept under control and we're not overwhelmed.
At the end of this novel, we haven't learned too much about the overarching story; this novel's mystery is solved, but the larger story of the Stags isn't explained yet. There's obviously at least one more novel to come, and I very much hope that MA will end the series before it starts feeling fatigued. It's far too good to let it trail off into nothingness.
There are a lot of pop culture references in this one. I don't remember there being this many in the two earlier books, but to be fair it's been a year since I read the last one and another year before that since the first one.
MA has, as always, done a lot of research and dredged up a lot of English history to weave into the story. It hovers on the verge of being too much, but because we're discovering it at the same time as Greer - and for the one piece she knew already, Shafeen luckily needs to be told - it's kept under control and we're not overwhelmed.
At the end of this novel, we haven't learned too much about the overarching story; this novel's mystery is solved, but the larger story of the Stags isn't explained yet. There's obviously at least one more novel to come, and I very much hope that MA will end the series before it starts feeling fatigued. It's far too good to let it trail off into nothingness.