American Kitsune, Vol. 1

Light Novel

De: Brandon Varnell

Narrado por: Aurora Bliss, Boise Blue

THE TALE OF A BOY, A FOX, AND A LOT OF ECCHI!

Kevin Swift has the worst luck with women. It’s not that he’s unattractive or even unpopular. He just can’t talk to them. He blames it on all those shōnen romcoms he enjoys watching. Fortunately, or unfortunately―depending on who’s asking―Kevin’s love life is about to start looking up.

After saving a fox’s life Kevin discovers that he actually rescued a Kitsune, a shape-shifter capable of transforming into a beautiful girl who appears to have popped right out of the pages to a Shōnen manga. Her name is Lilian, and she has decided that Kevin is going to be her mate, whether he wants to be or not.

Between dealing with an overly amorous vixen, his inability to talk to girls, and school, Kevin is going to have his hands full.

©2014 Brandon Varnell (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Interesting but frustrating

Good narration. Story is interesting... but the main character is insufferable and it distracts from the comedy.

Waste of a credit for me honestly

So I got this on a whim from being force fed ads for this series for weeks so frustrated and curious I cashed out and tried to listen to this. From the art in the ads, comments, and everything else I saw I was expecting a daring charismatic MC with balls of steel not this snot nose sniveling dumb ass god it was frustrating to sit and listen to this dude (15 years old BTW wish I would’ve known that before starting this) bumble his way through conversations and interactions with females like he’s never spoken to one in his entire life. I was going to complain about alllll the ecchi with no pay off but then of course 15 year old main character and a 100+ year old stacked fox girl trying to jump his bones every 15 seconds. It’s like a terrible romcom anime with an MC with no redeeming characteristics besides he likes animals and can’t talk to girls. I had to force myself through this over a 16 hour period because I’d keep stopping to take a break from this shit. But the narrators are fairly decent the female voice actors voice was a little squeaky forcing higher pitch for me, and the male narrator pronounced a few words kinda funky but over all they were good. Main complaint, terrible MC, over done anime tropes, and lack of an overall progression in the story character and plot wise

Annoying laugh

I made it about a third of the way and I cannot continue to listen because of the annoying laugh, it's just too much

The only book I've hated enough to review.

I want to start by saying the narration was fantastic, well preformed and pleasant to hear, Aurora and Boise did great. That is saddly the only nice thing I have to say about this book, as a premise there is potential for something good, none of that was measured up to.

What could have been a humourous and charming romantic comedy about a girl being a living set of anime tropes breaking down the metphorical the door on a normal guy's life and turning it upside down, turned into something so much worse. Annoying, cringe worthy, and nothing resembling a healthy mutual romantic relationship in any way, it gets worse the longer it goes on.

First, I might have found the tropes and forth wall breaks fun if they weren't so aggressively in your face but they quickly went from fun in-joke to cringey and irritating really fast as they began to disrupt and derail any scene they appear, which is a lot.

Secondly, the main characters and their relationship is god awful, and I don't say that lightly being something of an apologist for less than excellent stories so long I was entertained. The MC's entire primary character traits are his utter inability to interact with women... at all and being completely a passive pushover, which is fine that makes for a good arc of growth for the love interest to help him work through either intentionally or by happenstance and she does- sorta, by being the absolute worst.

The main love interest, the titular kitsune, is pushy, demanding, and worst of all- manipulative. She decides she's in love and doesn't take no for an answer, and if it stopped there she'd be a character of persistence but instead she totally ignores and steamrolls the MC's thoughts, feelings, desires, and goals either not reacting to protests at all or actively guilt tripping him for being upset that she disregards his agency, pushes out his friends and even damages existing relationships with other romantic interests. And for some reason when she inserts herself into his friend group and actively lies about the nature of their relationship the MC's friends do not even remotely believe him when he attempts to set the record straight and he's expected to just roll over and take it.

Lastly the book ends by trying to advance his acceptance of the relationship by giving the MC an act of courage standing in defense of the love interest in a moment of crisis, followed by a reversal of the same, but it's essentially a patch job to make an easy clean ending when the whole thing was just terrible all the way through.

I have listened to a lot of sub-par books and enjoyed them, this the first that I hated and I mean truly despised. Sorry to Mr. Varnell, as I've really quite enjoyed some of his other work, but this is the only time I felt compelled to dress a work down like this.