Note: This book has, at the time of publishing this review, not been translated into English (yet). I am unable to read the original Chinese release, therefore I'll be basing my review on the German and Dutch editions which I read.
The final book in the main White Fox story. There's some more spin-offs after this, but this concludes the main arc as far as I know. Spoilers ahead.
Dilah and his friends make a return as they try to put a stop to the Red Queen and find a way for animals and humans to live in unity.
I think I've got to accept the hard truth about this series: I simply don't care anymore. The final two books in White Fox are so vastly different from the first two, and so deceptively advertised (at least the German and Dutch editions) that I legit lost all my interest in this series.
I'm not even saying that, by itself, this book is all that terrible. It's just that it doesn't gel well with books one and two (which are mostly relatively light-hearted animal fantasy stories), when books three and four are human-POV stories with all sorts of mythologies intertwined and it takes itself so seriously and at this point I just lost interest pretty much completely. I didn't need this epic battle of good and evil in my relatively fun and light fox xenofiction books. And I especially didn't need human-POVs, considering the false advertising (the title White Fox plus the animals on the cover).
But for me personally, I lost interest after book two. So pardon if this review is a bit messy. I think that how much one can enjoy this book is entirely up to whether or not they mind the deceptive advertising and tonal/POV shifts. I do, so therefore I don't enjoy books three-four. But if you can get past it, this isn't an outright terrible book, either. It does have good morals, some okay characters, some interesting world-building, etc.
I think that I might pick up the spinoffs if they're animal-POV again, but if they turn out to be human-POV I'll leave them.
Rating: 2.5/5
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