Inbali Iserles

To be honest, most of my problems with this book are probably because I am 40 and not 7.

It has so much I should like! Foxes with magical powers! Wolves running as a single being over the tundra! Mind control!

I found the characterisation a bit weak, and the plot a bit slow. Isla is looking for her brother from roughly the first chapter of the first book, and finds him in about the last chapter of the last book That is a long time to care about a quest for a fox you have never really spent a show more lot of screen time with. The best bit is the bit with the wolves, where the black fox has attempted to take over the wolf pack by mind control, and has accidentally crippled himself and the king of the wolves in the process. I thought the forgiveness of the black fox by the wolves was far too shallow and easy for what was basically murdering the pack leader in a really horrific way. OK, he did turn up as the king to scare away the other wolf pack, but if he hadn't killed the king in the first instance it wouldn't have been very necessary, would it? There is an ongoing theme of betrayal in these books -Isla's first helper turns out to be hiding the death of her parents from her, and hiding his involvement with the evil Mage, Isla's second helper turns out to be working for the Mage, the Council of Elders send Isla off to the North not because they think her brother is there at all but because they want someone to try and find the black fox... it's a bit grim. Also, the books try really hard to make me like Siffrin, and I do, but it is basically a 'teacher/student ends up in romance' relationship, and I'm not sure books need more of them. She's basically 4 weeks old when you meet her! show less

A book that forgets its own lore and world-building for the last five chapters and throws itself at a wall a few times. When I picked this up, I was thinking it would pick up, being the second book of a trilogy. That's a lot to offer, more foxcraft, more action.

Instead the book decides to bend things, and drop things.

Much like book one, it almost gets you hyped for things, but any hype will end in little pay off. Things don't ever seem to fully get over that ramp the chapters are building show more themselves up to. It drags and feels like some parts are repeated from the first book.

Characters in this book exist for three reasons, to die, or to cop out and split or finally, to part ways. They get fake out near deaths or bs reasons to not follow the main character where she goes, almost as if that will aid the author in raising the stakes for the final book, which I'm almost done with. It didn't.

Nearing the end of the book, all use of the word brush -the books word for fox tail(which is abused more in this book than book one and will annoy people if they pay attention to how often its used) it vanishes almost entirely, appearing perhaps twice during the last five chapters, a jarring change to the writing flow and a very sudden lack of their language being used.

Likewise the biggest flaw I've seen comes into play, and I don't mean the main character's lust for her brother that is nearly every other page or every time she looks at a male. The rules of the world either do not apply to the main character at all, or they bend to apply to her. She is told their magic cannot do some things, and immediately does it, only stopped because she gets distracted, not because the rules forbid it.

There is only one book left, and I doubt it can redeem this trilogy. show less

The best Foxcraft book, but mainly because the author seemed to know how to write the wolves how they should have written the foxes: with personality and depth. All of the wolves have so much more depth and interesting qualities than the foxes, they literally made this book worthwhile.

The ending was a good twenty pages of content, and thus that leaves me to say out of these three books, two of them are boring or let downs, and the final one is only good for the wolves and ending. It also show more felt good to see Isla finally open her eyes on matters.

I'd recommend skipping book one and two, and reading more for the wolves, honestly, you miss nothing doing so. The ending where Isla changes is really lame given nothing is done with it(it's how the trilogy ends).

Happy to be done with this series! show less

A book that forgets its own lore and world-building for the last five chapters and throws itself at a wall a few times. When I picked this up, I was thinking it would pick up, being the second book of a trilogy. That's a lot to offer, more foxcraft, more action.

Instead the book decides to bend things, and drop things.

Much like book one, it almost gets you hyped for things, but any hype will end in little pay off. Things don't ever seem to fully get over that ramp the chapters are building show more themselves up to. It drags and feels like some parts are repeated from the first book.

Characters in this book exist for three reasons, to die, or to cop out and split or finally, to part ways. They get fake out near deaths or bs reasons to not follow the main character where she goes, almost as if that will aid the author in raising the stakes for the final book, which I'm almost done with. It didn't.

Nearing the end of the book, all use of the word brush -the books word for fox tail(which is abused more in this book than book one and will annoy people if they pay attention to how often its used) it vanishes almost entirely, appearing perhaps twice during the last five chapters, a jarring change to the writing flow and a very sudden lack of their language being used.

Likewise the biggest flaw I've seen comes into play, and I don't mean the main character's lust for her brother that is nearly every other page or every time she looks at a male. The rules of the world either do not apply to the main character at all, or they bend to apply to her. She is told their magic cannot do some things, and immediately does it, only stopped because she gets distracted, not because the rules forbid it.

There is only one book left, and I doubt it can redeem this trilogy. show less