The God and the Gumiho: the #1 Sunday Times bestseller

By Author / Illustrator

Sophie Kim

Genre

Fantasy

Age range(s)

14+

Publisher

Hodderscape

ISBN

9781399716956

Format

Hardback

Published

04-06-2024

Synopsis

In this delightfully romantic Korean contemporary fantasy, a fallen trickster god must pair up with a coffee-slinging, shapeshifting fox to track down a demon of darkness before it devours the mortal world. They'll do anything to outsmart each other. Anything, except fall in love.

Kim Hani - the once-terrible gumiho known as the Scarlet Fox - spends her days working at a cafe and trying not to let a certain customer irk her. Seokga - a trickster god thrown from the heavens for his attempt at a coup - spends his days hunting demons and irking a particular gumiho.

When a demon of darkness escapes the underworld, and the Scarlet Fox emerges from hiding before quickly vanishing, Seokga is offered a chance at redemption: kill them both, and his sins will be forgiven. But Hani is prepared to do anything to prevent Seokga from bringing her to justice, even trick her way into his investigation. Anything, that is - except fall in love . . .

Praise for Sophie Kim: 'hear me out: if you liked Crescent City, enjoyed Disney's Zootropolis, and police procedural dramas: you're going to love this'. 'I'm sorry in advance for the amount of fangirling I will be doing in this review . . . it just grabbed me by my arms and quite literally dragged me out of my slump swamp'. 'If you like Korean culture, K dramas and the grumpy/sunshine trope this is definitely for you!'

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