Hontoku
SuBLime
9 December 2025
195
eBook - PDF
Fantasy BL Manga
ARC via Edelweiss
A half-fox demon, half-human who has lost his family is taken under the wing of a sage and raised as his pupil. As the young half-demon matures, his feelings for his master mature as well, and what was once admiration turns into forbidden love.
When half–fox demon, half-human Feijin loses his family at an early age, he is taken in by and becomes the pupil of Sage Gaochun. As the centuries pass, Feijin’s admiration for his master turns romantic, but such relationships between a master and his pupil are not allowed. And though Feijin continues to confess his feelings to Gaochun, he is gently rebuffed each and every time. Desperate, Feijin puts his master under a spell and whisks him off to bed, but the typically gentle and reserved Gaochun surprises Feijin with his passion. It’s only later that he learns his master had once been deeply in love with a demon and was severely punished for it!
The Trickster's Tale was a story with a good premise. The illustration, too, was beautiful, but overall the book didn't quite work for me. Many of the characters were drawn with a similar look. This might have been okay for a linear plot, but the story jumped around a lot, and the similarity between characters only made it harder to keep up with what was happening as we leapt from past to present and back again. None of the characters were especially likeable, that you'd want to get behind them and support their quests, and that made it hard to form any connection to the story. In conclusion, despite lovely artwork and a promising-sounding plot, this one wasn't really to my liking, so I am giving it 2.5 stars.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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