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Little Yokai #0
Shadowed
As a freshly minted Bureau of Souls agent, Keiko Miller figured her first week wouldn't be too stressful.
A drug-dealing Yokai, a powerful crime boss, and a mortalization client seeking protection soon prove her wrong. Within days of accepting her badge, Keiko must choose between the values in her heart and the oath she swore to uphold...
A drug-dealing Yokai, a powerful crime boss, and a mortalization client seeking protection soon prove her wrong. Within days of accepting her badge, Keiko must choose between the values in her heart and the oath she swore to uphold...
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First published January 1, 2021
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Scott Walker
16 books11 followersAn east coast transplant, Scott currently lives in Los Angeles, which is the setting for his Little Yokai urban fantasy series. He loves D&D, dressing up as a Star Wars Sandtrooper for Halloween, and playing video games. His wife claims he never disclosed these hobbies before they were married.
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April 9, 2023
This was a delight to read.
This book is a precursor to the series: Little Yokai, and introduces us to Keiko Miller, a woman working for the Bureau of Souls, an agency based in Kyoto, that has agents all around the world. Keiko was born, and lives, in America.
She is new to the job, and she's living a dangerous life because, against all the rules of the Bureau, she's actually Yokai - a half human, half Kitsune.
If she's discovered, she'll lose her job - but her Mother, a six-tailed Kitsune, with strong magical powers, had given her a magical fish, called Madara, who eats her Yokai 'essence', thus preventing all the magical alarms, set to show humans the Yokai among them, that could have given her true nature away, and allowing her to keep her secret.
The Kitsune are Japanese Fox Spirits who, just like the large panoply of Yokai, in their many forms, and contrary to legend are, in fact, real.
They suddenly appeared around the world thirty years previous to the present time in this story.
This books follows Keiko in her job, and in her private life, and gives a thorough grounding in the situations that the Yokai find themselves.
It's full of fun, pathos, and a ton of action, as Keiko does her best to help her fellow Yokai, and humans, against the bad stuff that could drag them down.
I loved this book, and I'm eager to go on to book one of this series: Caged, so I'll say goodbye, and I'll catch you on the flip side, to let you know what I think of Caged!
This book is a precursor to the series: Little Yokai, and introduces us to Keiko Miller, a woman working for the Bureau of Souls, an agency based in Kyoto, that has agents all around the world. Keiko was born, and lives, in America.
She is new to the job, and she's living a dangerous life because, against all the rules of the Bureau, she's actually Yokai - a half human, half Kitsune.
If she's discovered, she'll lose her job - but her Mother, a six-tailed Kitsune, with strong magical powers, had given her a magical fish, called Madara, who eats her Yokai 'essence', thus preventing all the magical alarms, set to show humans the Yokai among them, that could have given her true nature away, and allowing her to keep her secret.
The Kitsune are Japanese Fox Spirits who, just like the large panoply of Yokai, in their many forms, and contrary to legend are, in fact, real.
They suddenly appeared around the world thirty years previous to the present time in this story.
This books follows Keiko in her job, and in her private life, and gives a thorough grounding in the situations that the Yokai find themselves.
It's full of fun, pathos, and a ton of action, as Keiko does her best to help her fellow Yokai, and humans, against the bad stuff that could drag them down.
I loved this book, and I'm eager to go on to book one of this series: Caged, so I'll say goodbye, and I'll catch you on the flip side, to let you know what I think of Caged!
June 26, 2023
A fun introduction to Keiko and the Little Yokai world.
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