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“Wicked Fox” is an engrossing – if convoluted – YA fantasy

If you’ve devoured every novel by Jenny Han, Maurene Goo, and Ellen Oh, but that Korean-American young adult book itch just can’t be scratched, you’ll surely appreciate Kat Cho’s debut, “Wicked Fox.” In this twisting, melodramatic fantasy set in modern-day Seoul, a mythical fox girl stands to lose her soul, heart, and life to a very cute boy.

High school crushes have higher stakes than I remember.

Gu Miyoung is half-human, half-gumiho (a nine-tailed fox

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