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Tak! reviewed The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe

Christopher Rowe: The Navigating Fox (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …

5 stars

Whew, the ending felt so sudden I think I hurt something.

The Navigating Fox is like a thousand-page fantasy epic crammed into 150 pages. It's super well written, and the setting is great and I want more, particularly the Northern Membership - although I could stand to go a few days without reading the word "knowledgeable". Now give me the thousand-page edition. 😀

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Whew, the ending felt so sudden I think I hurt something.

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Tak! commented on The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …

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I respect that so many things were left ambiguous: Quintus's origin, what's happening with the Empress, how did Quintus and Cynthia's crew come to their understanding, etc. - but maybe some of them could have been resolved? just one?

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enne📚 replied to Tak!'s status

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@Tak@gush.taks.garden Reading between the lines, my conclusions were: Quintus was (probably) made by Toosa who taught Quintus about the roads, since multiverse Toosa is there right at Quintus's first moments of self-consciousness. I think it's possible that Quintus was traveling the roads prior to meeting Toosa as well. Toosa also made Cynthia promise to save Quintus (which happens off-page, right?), which also makes me feel like Toosa was in the know about the future (which lines up with the old/young Toosa appearance earlier). Maybe I'd guess that the "why" of Quintus was something around sabotaging the resurrection plan to thwart the incursion of the empire somewhat? That's what I got.

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Tak! replied to enne📚's status

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an …

Content warning the navigating fox plot discussion / spoilers

@picklish 🤔 my read was that Quintus warned Cynthia about the plot and they made the plan together (all the "so it's time?" stuff)

I didn't even pick up on old/young Toosa, I thought they were two separate people 🤷

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