A review by kristi_asleep_dreaming
The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson

3.0

I wanted to love this book, even while reading it. The glimpses of medieval japanese court life were beautifully and delicately done, the characters were strong, the prose was lovely... But it dragged. There was too much of everything. The ten years compressed into a few weeks that Kitsune spent with her lover were like a metaphor of the book: it seemed much longer than it was. And I preferred Kitsune when she was a fox.

I did like the pillow book entries of the wife; I never got tired of her.