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A Chinese Fantasy #2
A Chinese Fantasy: Law of the Fox
NO SUCH THING AS A HAPPY ENDING
When a man saves a fox, the last thing he expects is for her to return to him as a beautiful maiden, but gratitude is powerful and so is the law of the fox. When it comes to finding a love match, don’t rule out pairing with a tiger, wolf, or bear, either! This collection of eight fantasy tales are all about finding love in the weirdest of places.
When a man saves a fox, the last thing he expects is for her to return to him as a beautiful maiden, but gratitude is powerful and so is the law of the fox. When it comes to finding a love match, don’t rule out pairing with a tiger, wolf, or bear, either! This collection of eight fantasy tales are all about finding love in the weirdest of places.
160 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2023
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February 26, 2023
Fun stories that will leave you depressed.
Absolutely gorgeous art, & captivating plot lines with devastating endings that will leave you thinking, “maybe being single isn’t so bad after all.”
Absolutely gorgeous art, & captivating plot lines with devastating endings that will leave you thinking, “maybe being single isn’t so bad after all.”
April 23, 2023
Love can be found in strange places
Being the second book in the Chinese Fantasy series I had high hopes considering the first one had an impressive multi chapter tale about a man over coming great hardships to be worthy of his dragon bride but alas I was not as impressed by the offerings presented in this volume. Certainly the art is still impressive and regardless of what the book description says there are happy endings to some of these tales but having eight stories means each story only has so many pages to be tell us everything they want to convey to the reader.
Now for those sensitive readers there are some triggers within the book that may offend you including beastiality (most can take on more human forms before becoming intimate save for the bear), assault leading to murder, partial nudity with some implied but not graphic sexual moments, and body horror. Among the stories you have these to look forward to (without spoiling.)
Zhao Shishi A man unable to recover from the lost of his wife finds temporary hope and a new path in life.
Daughter of a Different Kind (Tiger) A man lost in a storm finds an unusual family and is enamored with their bright and beautiful daughter as the storm passes.
Daughter of a Different Kind (Wolf) A hunter is discovered by a girl and her companion while he is sleeping and discovers things don't always work out how you plan.
Man Who Was Saved by a Bear Interspecies relations between a strangely human like bear (with longer hair and certain skills) and her human whom she cares for.
Law of the Fox A man saves a fox from wild dogs and is visited by a beauty at night but things are not always what they seem even if they seem real.
Moonlight Lovers A man sees an unusual pair on a night walk and discovers the truth.
Wife Who Went to the Underworld A faithful wife makes a deal to return home.
Asena A boy who is the last of his people is left to die after his arms and legs were sliced off but is saved by a wolf who helps raise him.
Being the second book in the Chinese Fantasy series I had high hopes considering the first one had an impressive multi chapter tale about a man over coming great hardships to be worthy of his dragon bride but alas I was not as impressed by the offerings presented in this volume. Certainly the art is still impressive and regardless of what the book description says there are happy endings to some of these tales but having eight stories means each story only has so many pages to be tell us everything they want to convey to the reader.
Now for those sensitive readers there are some triggers within the book that may offend you including beastiality (most can take on more human forms before becoming intimate save for the bear), assault leading to murder, partial nudity with some implied but not graphic sexual moments, and body horror. Among the stories you have these to look forward to (without spoiling.)
Zhao Shishi A man unable to recover from the lost of his wife finds temporary hope and a new path in life.
Daughter of a Different Kind (Tiger) A man lost in a storm finds an unusual family and is enamored with their bright and beautiful daughter as the storm passes.
Daughter of a Different Kind (Wolf) A hunter is discovered by a girl and her companion while he is sleeping and discovers things don't always work out how you plan.
Man Who Was Saved by a Bear Interspecies relations between a strangely human like bear (with longer hair and certain skills) and her human whom she cares for.
Law of the Fox A man saves a fox from wild dogs and is visited by a beauty at night but things are not always what they seem even if they seem real.
Moonlight Lovers A man sees an unusual pair on a night walk and discovers the truth.
Wife Who Went to the Underworld A faithful wife makes a deal to return home.
Asena A boy who is the last of his people is left to die after his arms and legs were sliced off but is saved by a wolf who helps raise him.
March 1, 2023
3.5 I enjoyed the first one a lot more, but I still liked the short stories and beautiful art. The first one I felt was structured a lot better and the stories a bit more fleshed out. (I know these are retellings of real Chinese folklore, but they weren’t retold as impactful as the first book accomplished I felt. Very fast paced.) This one also had a lot more tragedy to their endings and I think it was done very well.
Overall, still very good read and highly recommend!
Overall, still very good read and highly recommend!
December 1, 2024
Better than the previous volume, but at the same time, I feel like each story was too fast. At least there wasn't non-sotries this time around.
I wished there was more of a connection between the stories however.
I wished there was more of a connection between the stories however.
December 22, 2024
This anthology of stories focused on romances and fighting/working to be together. In each one, one of the partners was a spirit, a human/animal hybrid, or a shape shifter. Some of these stories were sweet and others were odd. In general I like this series and would like it to be longer.
March 26, 2023
Apparently the Chinese REALLY like carnivores.
April 7, 2024
An eclectic collection of stories, many of them ending unhappily. Not much to my tastes.
July 24, 2024
This was more short stories, and was more sad than the first volume, and took an unexpectedly horny turn in the last story???
January 2, 2024
2.5 stars, rounded up.
Pros: very nice art, and it's interesting to see folktales adapted without Disneyfying them, for lack of a better term--that melancholy or outright sad ending from many human x supernatural-or-animal-or-both that anyone who read lots of cultures' folktales as a kid* will be familiar with.
Cons: there are 8 stories in here, which means each one is really short. They are literally just drawn adaptations of the story with nothing added (compared to the previous volume that had fewer, but longer, stories, and which thus had the space to give characters actual personalities). And none of these are happily-ever-afters, though some are in the vein of "well someone will benefit or get something out of this."
And because you're reading several very short, melancholy stories in a row, they start to wear on you. Or at least, wear on me. I don't need everything to be a happily-ever-after, but it was disappointing to have a whole volume that gave VERY short story after very short story, giving now room or time to feel any emotions associated with the grey outlook of the stories.
It would have been better if there was at least one longer story to break up the pacing, which would allow the emotions of each story time to settle and thus have a better impact. As it was, the repetitive short stories (start story, get downer ending; start story, get downer ending; start story, get downer ending) actually lessened their own impact by hitting the same note over and over in quick succession.
*c'mon, I can't be the only one who existed on a steady diet of non-Disney fairy tales where people died or got unhappy endings a lot as a 9-year-old, right?
Pros: very nice art, and it's interesting to see folktales adapted without Disneyfying them, for lack of a better term--that melancholy or outright sad ending from many human x supernatural-or-animal-or-both that anyone who read lots of cultures' folktales as a kid* will be familiar with.
Cons: there are 8 stories in here, which means each one is really short. They are literally just drawn adaptations of the story with nothing added (compared to the previous volume that had fewer, but longer, stories, and which thus had the space to give characters actual personalities). And none of these are happily-ever-afters, though some are in the vein of "well someone will benefit or get something out of this."
And because you're reading several very short, melancholy stories in a row, they start to wear on you. Or at least, wear on me. I don't need everything to be a happily-ever-after, but it was disappointing to have a whole volume that gave VERY short story after very short story, giving now room or time to feel any emotions associated with the grey outlook of the stories.
It would have been better if there was at least one longer story to break up the pacing, which would allow the emotions of each story time to settle and thus have a better impact. As it was, the repetitive short stories (start story, get downer ending; start story, get downer ending; start story, get downer ending) actually lessened their own impact by hitting the same note over and over in quick succession.
*c'mon, I can't be the only one who existed on a steady diet of non-Disney fairy tales where people died or got unhappy endings a lot as a 9-year-old, right?
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