The Fox and the Devil

Overall Rating: 5/5

Little Fox...who will you be if I'm gone?

Anneke has always led the complicated life when it comes to her father... she has always felt out of place... and these feelings have only deepened since her father lost her younger brother...That is until one night when she returns to find her father dead, and a dark, surreally beautiful woman lingering over his cooling body...the very woman who proceeds to haunt Anneke's dreams and nightmares every night. The woman known as Diavola...

Spurred by vengeance and a desire for her own personal revenge, Anneke puts together a team of detectives to hunt this woman down... using the best forensic and investigatory methods available at the time...

Her father isn't the only one dead, and it seems like Diavola leaves death everywhere she goes...but to prove that they are all connected, Anneke must prove this to her team...

She spends years hunting down this woman, years of a seemingly fruitless search for an elusive phantom...and it seems that everywhere she looks, Diavola leaves her a letter... addressed just to her.

And as Anneke gets closer and closer to cracking the case, what she has known about her world becomes more and more foreign and confusing to her....and Diavola may not be just a human madman bent on killing for her own pleasure...what's even more surprising... is that the woman she has been hunting may have eyes for her alone .... in much more intimate ways than Anneke could have imagined when she started this investigation so many years ago...

Dark, mysterious, and sapphic all at the same time... Kiersten has done a masterful job of blending elements of horror, history... and a darkly delicious element of romance... she has done an absolutely fantastic job creating an atmosphere and injecting the perfect amount of detail as the story unfolds... of the emotions shared between the characters ... but also of their past....there is so much that I absolutely adored as I read through The Fox and the Devil... but I think what I adored most was Diavola's letters.. sinfully dark, romantic, and covered in blood ... (as any letter from a vampire woman should be...)

If you love a game of cat and mouse, unexpected dark love... and deep emotions along with a good heaping dose of "whodunit", The Fox and the Devil will steal your heart till the last page...