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A review by selinadragonair
Der Ruf des Mondsteins (The White Fox, #1) by Chen Jiatong
2.0
On the one hand this is a nice friendship story which tackles important subjects like death, environmental issues, cultural issues, pejudice while showing there is no black and white and including animal folklore, but on the other hand, as many things I want to criticise.
1. While the fox on the cover is definitely authentic and amazing (even though it looks more like a red fox with white fur than a polar fox) the illustrations on the inside are not even close to how a polar fox looks like. A polar bear, more likely. The art was not appealing and looked overly simplified.
2. I have to assume that the book is written beautifully in Chinese. Maybe even in English. But the German translation is clunky, simplistic and not beautiful at all. To worsen it, they changes some names of the characters to make them sound more German, which was a terrible decision in my opinion.
3. The plot iself had big pacing problems and ended up with some big genre tropes.
Worst part? This is only half the story.
I am not really impressed, but I might want to continue to know if Dilah can really transform into a human.
1. While the fox on the cover is definitely authentic and amazing (even though it looks more like a red fox with white fur than a polar fox) the illustrations on the inside are not even close to how a polar fox looks like. A polar bear, more likely. The art was not appealing and looked overly simplified.
2. I have to assume that the book is written beautifully in Chinese. Maybe even in English. But the German translation is clunky, simplistic and not beautiful at all. To worsen it, they changes some names of the characters to make them sound more German, which was a terrible decision in my opinion.
3. The plot iself had big pacing problems and ended up with some big genre tropes.
Worst part? This is only half the story.
I am not really impressed, but I might want to continue to know if Dilah can really transform into a human.