There were also a few loopholes or things mentioned but not explained which took away from the story.An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. A few Korean words were used here and there but they weren’t italicized so it just all melted together and made reading it a little more difficult. The ending was very confusing and it sort of left at a cliffhanger, thus leading the reader to its sequel, but I’m not sure how it’s supposed to pick up as a series because the story felt final. I felt like the author was sort of forcing their relationship on page because that’s what other writers would have done. It felt sort of forced because Miyoung was always cold towards Jihoon whereas Jihoon had this lingering feeling of care towards Miyoung. Their relationship was another weird part of the story. The other characters felt interchangeable and I didn’t care much for them. Though the main focus of the story was Miyoung and her being this half-creature, I felt like going into Jihoon’s history would have been better for the book. Jihoon was a very caring character and I wish the reader would have gotten more from his perspective. There was also a part of the gumiho called its bead which was very important to it, but again, not explained very well. I wish the author would have gone more into the mythology of the gumiho because it wasn’t really explained. She had to feed on full moons and she chose to feed on the energy of bad guys like thieves. The interesting part of the mythology was Miyoung’s feeding. When she meets Jihoon, she considers him as simply another pesky human but her feelings for him grow as he continues to want to get to know her. Her mother, a gumiho, doesn’t trust humans and tells Miyoung to be careful just because Miyoung’s father was a human and betrayed her or something along those lines. Miyoung is a half-human-half-gumiho and as such, she has trust issues. I found them really adorable and straightforward. I liked the main characters, Miyoung and Jihoon as their own entities.
I was interested in the mythology surrounding this book while reading something refreshing in the YA fantasy realm. She meets Jihoon who sees her in her true form and from there she has to keep her secret while both are attending the same school. She must feed on the energy of others in order to live.
This book takes place in modern day Seoul, South Korea where Gu Miyoung, a seemingly normal 18-year-old lives as a gumiho, or a nine-tailed fox.
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