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A review by piperclover
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
Did not finish book. Stopped at 52%.
I definitely don't think that this is bad in any way and I'm actually really really intrigued by some aspects of it it's just not what I thought it was going to be and I'm not really enjoying where it's going. I think this could be a fantastic horror thriller about a woman who murders bad men in the same vein as They Never Learn by Layne Fargo because of the creature she is and what her biology demands.
The opening chapter of this book made me think that it was going to be a ya version of They Never Learn but that opening scene of her hunting and stalking this bad man to kill is the only time in the first 52% we see that happen so I was set up for something that never came.
This has great themes about morality. Miyoung is always having a morality crisis about what she does and is trying to justify how she hunts to make herself a better person than she thinks she is. She isolates herself and is incredibly stand official room to people to avoid becoming reliant on anyone because she's afraid of being abandoned the way her mother was abandoned.
Jihoon does a similar thing and he does it fairly well but he does it by being so charming and gregarious that people think he has all of these friends so nobody gets close to him. This creates a really interesting dynamic where they do the same thing and therefore make logical sense to be together or at least be friends because they understand what being abandoned by a parent feels like and being lonely but because they go about their isolation in such vastly different ways, they butt heads about everything.
All of these points are intriguing but I'm just not vibing with the plot much.
The opening chapter of this book made me think that it was going to be a ya version of They Never Learn but that opening scene of her hunting and stalking this bad man to kill is the only time in the first 52% we see that happen so I was set up for something that never came.
This has great themes about morality.
Jihoon does a similar thing and he does it fairly well but he does it by being so charming and gregarious that people think he has all of these friends so nobody gets close to him. This creates a really interesting dynamic where they do the same thing and therefore make logical sense to be together or at least be friends because they understand what being abandoned by a parent feels like and being lonely but because they go about their isolation in such vastly different ways, they butt heads about everything.
All of these points are intriguing but I'm just not vibing with the plot much.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Murder