Tor.com has released their list of the 21 Best Stories of 2013! We thrilled to see this list includes Leigh Bardugo’s THE TOO-CLEVER FOX, the telling of a popular Ravkan fairytale that influences Alina throughout the Grisha Trilogy!
“The Too-Clever Fox”
Written by Leigh Bardugo
Illustration by Anna and Elena Balbusso
Edited by Noa Wheeler
This story is the most engaging new trickster folktale I’ve read in a while. The author does a wonderful job of crafting a story with the kind of multivalent morals wrapped in straightforward storytelling that characterize the genre she’s mimicking. The result is an unfolding folklore tradition that makes her world feel rich and real. That’s valuable enough on its own, but I’m even more impressed by the story because it’s a work of tie-in fiction. Leigh Bardugo really understands how to use a short story to promote her novels. The answer isn’t to write another chapter, but to build a mythic foundation that makes her world enticing.
Tor.com is releasing THE TOO-CLEVER FOX and the 20 other books listed in an anthology titled SOME OF THE BEST. You can preorder it for FREE on Amazon now!