I received this novel from net galley and the publisher for an honest review. Thank you!!
I have read Ms. Kagawa's Iron Fey series and this start to a new series did not disappoint!! The plot was intriguing, with several different plot twists and hidden motives. Every character that has been introduced has a story that comes with them and secrets they keep. Yumeko was left at a temple when she was a baby to be raised by monks with a letter containing a prophecy. Yumeko is a half fox yokai, but she needs to keep her appearance and magic hidden or risk discovery and death. When the temple is destroyed by an oni, she escapes with a part of a scroll that can be used to bring forth the Kami Dragon and grant a wish. While escaping, she runs into Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan, who causes a sword that contains the demon Hakaimono. Tatsumi struggles with the demon and needs to keep him on a tight reign for if he loses control, the demon will take control and destroy. Tatsumi tries to distance himself from Yumeko, but it difficult since no one has ever showed him kindness or cared about him. As they travel to find a priest who can help them find the scroll, they meet others along the way, a few joining their group. However, Yumeko has kept her knowledge of the scroll's location and her fox magic a secret. Tatsumi is using Yumeko to find the scroll for his clan and then orders to kill her when he completes his mission. Both struggle with the secrets they keep. However, there is a much larger plot at hand that has only begun to unravel itself. I am looking forward to the next novel in the series!!

I got my copy of this from Netgalley yesterday, and I was SO EXCITED to get my hands on it that I immediately inhaled it. Con: I was up until 3 am finishing it. Pro: it was amazing. Julia Kagawa continues to be an amazing, eloquent and funny author, balancing creative new ideas and worlds. I cannot wait to see where Kagawa takes this one - it has such unlimited potential with her creativity at the reins.

I love Julie Kagawa and this book did not disappoint! I had trouble putting this book down and I am already excited to see what happens to Kira and the rest of the group in book 2.

Kagawa never, ever disappoints. This book is amazing, it has all the aspects to make an engaging read. Kagawa weaves mythology, fantasy, a smidge of romance into completely original worlds. Shadow of the Fox is like nothing you've ever read before and somehow you feel like you were there all along. I'm not so patiently waiting for book 2!

A clever fox and a ruthless demon slayer undertake an impossible journey in Kagawa's latest home run. Yumiko is a both naive innocent and astonishingly tricky and as sparks fly between her and duty-bound Tatsumi, the reader is sucked into a world of epic magic and mythology where they may never want to leave.

I absolutely devoured this book. Now that I've finished it, I want more...NOW! :-) This is a well-built world full of engaging, multi-dimensional characters, and I can't wait for the next in the series! My only quibbles are--I hate how we left one of the characters, and--I might have missed it--but near the end, one of the characters knows Yumeko's task, and I don't remember her telling him about it. Nevertheless, this was a great book, and I'm looking forward to re-reading it!

I had never read anything by Julie Kagawa but decided to request a copy from NetGalley on a whim. I am so glad I did! I used to love fantasy but lately, nothing can keep my interest. This sucked me in from the beginning, and none of the background information was too hard to follow or understand. Sometimes authors lose me when the characters or objects in the books have strange names, but that didn't deter me with this book. I really liked the characters and thought the plot was compelling throughout. I will definitely read more of Kagawa's books, and I look forward to the next book in this series!

I have never been disappointed when it comes to Julie Kagawa, and she doesn't start now. This book is amazing, it has all the right things to make it a long time standing fantastic read. It has the ability to take you to a different world, a world that isn't like anything you have read or been to before. If a good is written well, you will get lost in the environment of that book, you will forget where you are because you are so involved in a book, and this book is one of those few and far between books that take you somewhere else and you don't want to come back.

This book was absolutely wonderful! The story is engrossing from the very beginning. The story of a young girl (a shapeshifter fox) who has been given the task of bringing part of the mythical scroll to another temple for safe keeping. Along the way she meets a Kage shinobi who is also looking for the scroll and is unaware that the girl who is traveling holds what he has been tasked to retrieve. Their group is also joined by a ronin, a member of the royal family and a motely cast of characters that join in the young girls quest. Though most of them do not know what it is she hides from them with her fox magic and the mythical scroll.
The story has many references to Japanese mythology which I found absolutely enchanting. I cannot wait for the next book!