#fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone

[shadowofaghost5]

Give it up for everybody’s favourite street rat!!!

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Fanart of Aaron from Fox’s Tounge and Kirin’s Bone, an incredible book by @muffinlance

I worked hard on this an am incredibly proud of how it turned out. If you wanna hear about the process, feel free to check out me rambling in the tags.

[bayofalgecirascranes]

Nobody haunts the narrative quite like Markus Sung in Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s Bone. He dies immediately before chapter one and you don’t stop hearing from him since. There isn’t a giant Markus-Shaped hole in the story because the Markus-shaped hole is the story. Impeccable use of narrative ghosts. No notes.

[carolofthebell]

Guess what came?

Best package since li’s book of friends

[awritersbro]

Aaron Fox’sTongueandKirinsBone plots accidentally what certain people he knows could only hope to plot on purpose and I love that for him.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

Just finished fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone. Ohhhhh my god that was a good book. I knew it would be since I’m a longtime fan of the author but still. Everyone check this book out literally rn it’s nowhere near as popular as it deserves to be.

[chestnut-devil]

Added to my audible me wish list for when I finish my current book

BOOK LAUNCH: Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone

Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone is officially on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

Reviews would be appreciated, even just a click-the-stars rating–you don’t need to buy anything to leave one. <3

Cover art by Lakatos Csenge @art-emisz

Summary:

For fans of The Queen’s Thief and Every Heart a Doorway, this dark fantasy joins folklore and politics, each as deadly as the other… Humanity is dying, hunted to extinction by creatures of legend. One boy was born to save them all. That boy just got knifed in the back. He looked a bit too much like Aaron, you see. Now it’s Aaron’s job to step up, lest his Death correct that little mix-up. But Aaron’s skills as a street rat run more towards stealing and stabbing than towards saving. And the more he learns of what brought dear dead Markus to that fatal alleyway, the more he has to wonder just what the world’s savior was really up to the night the wrong boy died. The best rated serial fantasy, now available in print, ebook, and on Audible!

Thank you to everyone who preordered! Your copies are currently on their way to me for signing; I’ll send out tracking numbers when they’re on their way to you. If you ordered an ebook bundle, you should have gotten your epub today through the email you use with PayPal–let me know if you didn’t get yours!

If you were waiting on cheaper international shipping, keep an eye on your country’s Amazon page–the books should be live there soon!

Reviews would be appreciated, even just a click-the-stars rating–you don’t need to buy anything to leave one. <3

[art-emisz]

COVER REVEAL for @muffinlance's novel The Skin Stealer's Son, sequel to Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone!

[frankencanon]

It has arrived...!! 🦊❤️‍🔥🐲

Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone by Allison M. Kovacs (@muffinlance)

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Hmmm. I see. So what modernity wants in their stories is morally grey characters - not in the sense that they are merciless killers with good hearts but in the sense that they are flawed but that the lines between good and evil are too blurry to properly make out. And they want those characters of ambiguous morality to make choices that still end up for the better or everyone and those they care about because perhaps what matters deep down inside is caring. More than a story where the definitions of good and evil are properly outlined, we want a story where the choices we make matter, that even if the skies are grey, we can still paint color in this world

[daylyluck]

I made some memes to tide me over until the next chapter of @muffinlance's fox's tongue and kirin's bone drops and i get to hear what my beloved boy aaron is up to (i'm sure he's having a normal day and no poison is involved):

and finally, my constant state of being for the last year, but ESPECIALLY after the second-to-most-recent chapter:

[bayofalgecirascranes]

Good ol’ Aaron Foxstongue, the only human with two deaths and neither of them want anything to do with them.

but to be quite honest I am fascinated by the behavior of the deaths in Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone and The Skin Stealer’s Son. So many of them seem to be completely apathetic towards anything and everything unless and until it gets in the way of their charge’s Predicted Time of Death (ie: aaron is involved). I’ve seen deaths that are kindly and deaths that are hostile and deaths that are solemn and deaths that are hungry and deaths that revel in their nature, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a death that’s apathetic before. They treat attempted massacres like ice cream socials and don’t give a second glance to the victims or the perpetrators. And yet some of may or may not have plans for aaron?

anyway please buy Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone and then read its sequel on royal road, it’s really good.

[awritersbro]

@muffinlance the copy of Fox’s tongue has changed hands, and as such so has the isopoppy @windwalker-chrysalis made me for my birthday! It is very good.

[muffinlance]

[id: Colored digital drawing of Aaron from Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone. He's sitting on the ground, one knee up and elbow propped on it. The white outline of a large rat is perched across his shoulders. He looks relaxed, with a slight smile, and absolutely has the kind of casual shadiness that certain lieutenants would toss into a jail cell given half a chance. End id.]

Also, @shadowofaghost5 's tags:

#fox's tongue and kirin's bone #fanart #i really wasn't sure how this would work out because i rarely ever draw book characters? But drew this guy Once and that was it #went 'yeah that's my boy. that works' #i mostly went with what i envisioned though i did check the first chapter again to see if it said anything contradicting my design #and it did say Aaron had short hair but you know what? I really want him to have a little ponytail #I think he deserves a little ponytail #so i kept the ponytail #was originally going to draw him with his silly little coat and add a heck ton of details #but the pose didn't work out #There's always next time! #with his current clothes his sashi guess is the most important part? #in the first chapter it talks about Aaron's knife had been clad in black&gold previously assume in reference to the Man #Though I might be wrong #i binge-read the book in like three days #the details have escaped me #but yeah did the sash with those colors because thought it'd be cool #anyways i believe that's most of it also have a bunch of doodles i made for warmup before this #that i'm also going to share at some point #i hope you like it!

Give it up for everybody’s favourite street rat!!!

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Fanart of Aaron from Fox’s Tounge and Kirin’s Bone, an incredible book by @muffinlance

I worked hard on this an am incredibly proud of how it turned out. If you wanna hear about the process, feel free to check out me rambling in the tags.

[tonhalszendvics]

Let me reveal two things with one picture: my hand and my first 5 star read this year.

I loved this. The world building is phenomenal. The world was creative, the creatures are making sense. The world and the characters are interacting, it's not just a setting, it's the whole point. The characters are interesting, they have layers (of multiple trauma). They are according to their age and are not annoying, which is a high bar for young people. This is kinda dark, but not too dark. It was perfect for my taste, especially with the fact that there is no romance in it, apart from the family drama. I loved the bickering, the fact that the different people have different kind of humour, but they make it work?? To be one big good thing? I just can't.

Will I be recommending this book to everyone in the next twenty years? Yes. Yes, I will, and I won't be ashamed of it.

Check out the author's tumblr: @muffinlance

[chapter-title-tournament]

Round 5, Match 3

Hiding a Body and Other Relatable Crimes (Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone, Allison M. Kovacs)

In Which Sophie Expresses Her Feelings with Weed-Killer (Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones)

[art-emisz]

COVER REVEAL for @muffinlance's novel Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone!