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Foxtale
Earth, 2119. There's no longer any poverty, crime, or war, but the planet-on the brink of its sixth mass extinction-has become a barely habitable wasteland. Enter Tabby Fox, a teenager who lives alone with her dog and leads a monotonous existence: work, eat, shower, sleep, repeat. Then, one day, the head of the shadowy government appears on her terrace, calling her to help execute a top-secret mission to recover a valuable android. From another planet. As Tabby trains for her journey into space, she uncovers new information that forces her to question who she can trust-and realizes that her own life is in danger.
Foxtale is Sarah Hunt's first novel, written when she was 14. It won first place in the Stone Soup 2021 Book Contest.
Foxtale is Sarah Hunt's first novel, written when she was 14. It won first place in the Stone Soup 2021 Book Contest.
286 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2022
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April 29, 2024
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I want to start this off by saying, that as the author was a teenager when she wrote this novel, Kudos to her! It's way better than anything I'd ever write!
I couldn't decide to give this 2 or 3 stars. I liked the idea of the story-
Set in the future, man-kind is destroying Earth. I'm getting Blade Runner 2049 or Ready Player One world meets Bullet Train neon vibes. The government has sent 3 androids on a space mission to another planet to see if it's inhabitable to move humans to (hello, Interstellar). The mission fails, with 2 of the androids being destroyed.
Moving forward, Tabby- our heroine, is approached by the government to be on a new mission as a scout to locate the remaining android on this new planet. Will they find the android? Will human life be able to move forward from self-destruction?
Now.... my issues with this story...
1. Tabby is 13 years old. Living on her own with her cool dog, Puck, working at a Slushie store. Okay, I get the teenage heroine, the author is a teen. But why was she allowed to move out of her parents' home at 13?
2. Why is Tabby approached to be on this space mission? The reason in the story is because her biological sister use to work for the government and they needed a blood relative. BUT WHY? It's never explained why it had to be a relative of Tabby's sister. The sister is alive, she just quit her job. I didn't understand.
3. Why a teenager for a space mission? She's had no training and she's suppose to leave for space in 48 hours? Tabby also didn't fight that she had to go. She says "oop, can't say no can I?" and she just accepts she has to go.
4. The cover has nothing to do with the story. Yep, that irritated me lol
Pros:
While I can catch glimpses that someone young wrote this story, she also, writes Tabby from a teenager point of view on how they respond or act to certain things and that was nice (vs, and adult trying to make the teen more adult). I also didn't mind the LGBQT+ part of the story, just the android/human love part was uh, different lol.
So overall, wouldn't recommend but I'm happy to support this author!
I want to start this off by saying, that as the author was a teenager when she wrote this novel, Kudos to her! It's way better than anything I'd ever write!
I couldn't decide to give this 2 or 3 stars. I liked the idea of the story-
Set in the future, man-kind is destroying Earth. I'm getting Blade Runner 2049 or Ready Player One world meets Bullet Train neon vibes. The government has sent 3 androids on a space mission to another planet to see if it's inhabitable to move humans to (hello, Interstellar). The mission fails, with 2 of the androids being destroyed.
Moving forward, Tabby- our heroine, is approached by the government to be on a new mission as a scout to locate the remaining android on this new planet. Will they find the android? Will human life be able to move forward from self-destruction?
Now.... my issues with this story...
1. Tabby is 13 years old. Living on her own with her cool dog, Puck, working at a Slushie store. Okay, I get the teenage heroine, the author is a teen. But why was she allowed to move out of her parents' home at 13?
2. Why is Tabby approached to be on this space mission? The reason in the story is because her biological sister use to work for the government and they needed a blood relative. BUT WHY? It's never explained why it had to be a relative of Tabby's sister. The sister is alive, she just quit her job. I didn't understand.
3. Why a teenager for a space mission? She's had no training and she's suppose to leave for space in 48 hours? Tabby also didn't fight that she had to go. She says "oop, can't say no can I?" and she just accepts she has to go.
4. The cover has nothing to do with the story. Yep, that irritated me lol
Pros:
While I can catch glimpses that someone young wrote this story, she also, writes Tabby from a teenager point of view on how they respond or act to certain things and that was nice (vs, and adult trying to make the teen more adult). I also didn't mind the LGBQT+ part of the story, just the android/human love part was uh, different lol.
So overall, wouldn't recommend but I'm happy to support this author!
April 25, 2024
Interesting concept but too much attention to the world building and not enough on the characters. It take 3/4 of the book to get to a story. Once you do, it's quick with little to no detail.
April 25, 2024
More of a 3.5 but I will review more later.
April 25, 2024
For a fourteen year old author, this is fantastic!
For an adult reader, not so much...
For an adult reader, not so much...
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