This one has been on my TBR shelf literally forever. So let's finally take a look. Spoilers ahead.
In this book we follow Tod, a rewilded fox trying to survive in the wild, and Copper, an old hound who aids his owner in his many fox hunts. Tod is often chased by Copper and his owner. Will her survive an ever-changing landscape and the hunters?
Despite my hype going into this book, it utterly failed to live up to it. Yeah, legit, I didn't care for this. It's not terrible or anything, but I really couldn't get into it. I felt no attachment to these characters, the plot was very repetitious (just how many damn fox hunts do we need to see? It gets old after two.), the author is oddly fixated on the animal's bodily functions (I lost count of how many times are throbbing testes and urinating mentioned) and it was also sexist because there are only two major female characters, who are both unnamed and exist only to procreate with Tod and then die.
The only sections I kinda enjoyed were just the ones with Tod just living in the wild doing generic foxy things that don't involve hunting. But those endless hunting chapters were so damn dull. I also didn't root for Copper at all in this story. Why the hell would I be rooting for someone who is basically just another tool in animal cruelty and animal murder? The ending where his owner is heavily implied to shoot Copper did nothing for me, since I didn't care about this character. Tod's death hit me a little harder, but it was still predictable as all hell so, again, it didn't hit the way the author clearly intended it to.
Just a boring and repetitive book. It's not terrible, but I'd still skip this one if I were you.
Rating: 2.5/5
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