by Leigh Bardugo
Love this short story. If you have read Russian fairy tales, this is something you should check out. The ending is particularly good.
After realizing that these shorts had very little to do with the main story line of the Grisha series, I decided to read the rest of them.The Too-Clever Fox, like The Witch of Duva, is a fairy tale set in the same world as the main series. (Alina even mentions the story in [b:Siege and Storm|1406195...
This short story is suddenly getting a lot of attention on GR and I do not quite understand why. For me, The Too-Clever Fox was nothing to write home about and did not even feature terribly memorable writing. I think overall I just do not care for Bardugo's writing as I was not a fan of Shadow and B...
Koja was untroubled. “I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with is death.”This short story had all the elements required of a good fable. Evocative, yet simple language, characters you feel for, and a moral you can see coming a mile off, but which you find yourself wan...
This is a cute story set in the world of talking animals. It is a lot like one of those short stories I read when I was a child, in hardcover volumes of fairytales that I still have on my shelves. Koja is one of those foxes that brings to life the idiom as cunning as a fox. He understands the natu...
This Ravkan fairy tale is a take-off of the Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was fun and well written, but I did guess the twist this time. I preferred The Witch of Duva better. Again, this can be read with no knowledge of the series and can be found for free here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/06/the-too-...
Nice, but not as good as [b:The Witch of Duva|13643163|The Witch of Duva (The Grisha, #0.5)|Leigh Bardugo|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1336644891s/13643163.jpg|19258458].
A delightful short-story-length fable. You can read it for yourself here
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