The Too-Clever Fox A Tor.Com Original

I liked this short storie and the lesson behind it. The ending was easy to tell, especially after the girl pour wine for Koja. It ok to show kindness, but never let your guard down. Again, the hard truth: the human kind is the biggest predator...

I am a sucker for fairy tales and all the sweet sweet parallels to Zoya and Nikolai.

Me gustó mucho, aunque ya veía como terminaba, te enseña mucho el cuento

i didn't see that coming, ok? amazing

The trap is loneliness Surprisingly satisfying subversion of a classic tale. Really liked this.

Reading a short like this makes me feel so attached to the GrishaVerse like I can literally picture Nikolai reading those to his and *spoiler*’s kids if they have them 🥺

Még mindig ez az egyik kedvencem Bardugo novellái közül. <3

I immensely enjoyed reading this book. This one's very intruiguing.

Leigh's folk stories, man! This is where she shines! I absolutely adored this novella, and even though it's short, I can't recommend it more. It reads like a real fairy tale from the old days and leaves a great impression. The story itself was really interesting and she always seems to have a little unexpected twist in the end. Well, okay, maybe not so unexpected after the first one I've read, they seem to have a pattern, but I still appreciated them a lot. I wish she had those in her Grisha trilogy.

4.5 Amo demasiado la forma que tiene Leigh Bardugo de contar estas historias. Si bien en este caso me veía venir lo que iba a pasar, me gustó.

This was also fantastic. It has nothing to do with the Grisha trilogy, so if you haven't read any of the books, you can still read this. Plus it's free to read. (: It reads very much like a classic folktale, and was just the right about of dark.

This short folk tale offers some background to the Grishaverse, but can be read as a standalone. A rather clever fox learns that he may not be able to outsmart everyone he meets.

3.5 stars.

*Mother is hungry after giving birth and about to eat The Clever Fox.* "A lesser creature might have despaired at such cruelty, but the fox saw vanity in his mother's carefully tended coat and snowy paws. 'I will tell you,; he replied. 'When we walk in the wood, the animals will say, 'Look at that ugly kit with his hansome mother!' And even when you are old and gray, they will not talk of how you've aged, but of how such a beautiful mother gave birth to such an ugly, scrawny son.' She thought on this and discovered she was not so hungry after all.'" The too clever fox is not, in fact, about Nikolai Lantosov. I know, I know, it's kind of disappointing, but the story is actually really interesting. There is this really ugly fox, and he uses his wits to get out of really difficult situations (kind of reminds me of Tyrion Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire, aka Game of Thrones). There is this legendary hunter that comes to the town near the forest and he keeps killing the last animals you would think he would be able to kill. Like a blood-thirsty bear. The fox has an idea... it's a crazy idea... but an idea with possibilities.