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!