Jihoon is everything charming and easy, breezing through life with a rakish smile. Miyoung is wonderful, holding humans at arm’s length while carefully selecting those she must feed from. All goes wrong when she saves soft-boy Ahn Jihoon from a dokkaebi (a goblin) and Miyoung loses her fox bead, which puts her life in jeopardy, and reveals her supernatural nature to Jihoon.

Miyoung chooses to feed from wicked men to assuage her guilt (to the chagrin of her mother). Miyoung is a loner she and her mother have moved around consistently in order to hide their natures from humans. Wicked Fox is a contemporary Korean fantasy about a young woman who by virtue of her Gumiho (nine-tailed fox) nature must consume the energy of men to survive (essentially, she must kill humans to survive). Three months after reading Night of the Dragon (the Shadow of the Fox finale), I needed a little more foxiness in my life, so this hit at just the right time. I had heard of the book before, and seen it in book stores, but had never gravitated toward it until Chloe from Books With Chloe talked about it. I do, however, watch and read tbrs for readathons to get new recommendations, and that’s how I found Wicked Fox by Kat Cho. I know that I don’t do well for time-specific reading challenges, so I don’t participate in them. Rebel that I am, I will not be contained to timelines for reading challenges. There’s a fun reading challenge going around the internet starting today called Koreadathon, the focus being on reading books by Korean authors and featuring Korean characters.

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