For the most part, you won’t find flashy magic or intense battles, you’ll find two broken teenagers struggling to understand family and friendship when important people in their lives keep leaving. Miyoung navigates school, friendship, domestic drama, and love, while love interest Jihoon (who gets equal time as lead protagonist, the chapters flipping between their POVs) tries to bury feelings of abandonment through video games, helping his grandmother at the family restaurant, and courting this mysterious new girl he met in the woods. In many ways, it’s a “slice of life” romance, undoubtedly influenced by the Korean dramas the author loves. WICKED FOX is a contemporary YA tale that just happens to feature a supernatural character. And while all this is going on, Miyoung starts life at a new school, the same one that boy attends, and despite all her mother’s warnings about the evils of humans, Miyoung realizes she just might be falling for him.

She has to find a way to meld with it once more or the consequences could be fatal. In the chaos of the attack, Miyoung’s fox bead, the part of her that maintains her gi, somehow is ejected from her body. But when a demon attacks Miyoung during a routine hunt, and a local teenage boy interferes to help fend off the monster, life becomes a lot more complicated. She really wishes she didn’t have to do that last part, but as someone who is part-human, part-gumiho, if she doesn’t consume gi at least once every 100 days, she’ll die. She goes to school, does her homework, sucks the life energy from depraved men to sustain her immortal life. Miyoung is just your average teenage girl living in Seoul. Note: I was provided a free ARC of the book by the publisher in return for my fair and honest review.

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