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# Penric's Fox

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Review: Clever, Entertaining, Well-Written (Too-Short) - It was fun to be back with Penric and his demon Desdemona. This book picks up after Penric and the Shaman. The Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl are still with Penric as they are called to investigate the murder of a sorceress. The world and its five god structure of the Mother, father, Daughter, Son and Bastard is creative and well built. It has been refreshing to read multiple series set in the same fantasy world. They are set at different times and with different sets of characters, but the reader is not completely starting from scratch. The world, its politics, and its religious orders are very well-defined, but you will learn about it best if you begin with The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt. (You won’t be unhappy- it is a terrific series.) Although the Penric and Desdemona books are not a part of that series, you will understand more about the world and in particular the five gods and religious orders that play a significant role in the political and sacred powers that are also big factors in this story if you have read those books. Penric’s investigation is concerned first with the fate of the sorceress’s demon and second with the murder of the mortal sorceress. The story is smartly plotted and cleverly told. The integration of Inglis and the other shamans into the story is a real plus. They are likable and their magic adds interest. There are light moments as with the earlier books in this Penric series. My only complaint is that the books in this series have been short (really a novella) so everything seems to begin and end quickly with no room for multiple threads of plot. Still, Penric and his demon Desdemona remain engaging and interesting. The writing is fluent and the pacing is good.
Review: Not "the next chapter" I was expecting, but this younger-Penric mystery was not a disappointment - As usual, Penric and Desdemona are both delightful. There's a murder to solve, with the help of old friends and new, plus interesting discussions comparing the powers and interactions of animal-imbued shamans vs. demon-riding sorcerers, and some ethical debate about how to resolve the unusual, maybe even unprecedented, fox/demon situation, mixed with Bujold's warm chuckla and exciting action. The course to the discovery of the murderer is fairly straightforward (if dramatic in climax) after a certain insight/ hypothesis is made, but the dénouement has its more serious moments, as Penric and a friend/colleague of the victim both must determine where they will draw the line between "could" (sorcerers can do a lot, forbidden or not) and "would" (given grave consequences internal and/or imposed), re. what the unrepentant killer deserves. Although Penric has not yet experienced the soul-crushing impossible-healing assignment we learn weighs him down by the time of the sequence starting with Penric's Mission, he does see here the grim and wasteful reality of selfish, irrational crime. His elderly, noble employer offers some pragmatic comfort. Clearly, I appreciated many aspects of the story, both light and thought-provoking, but I do need to mention a couple more elements that nearly made me mark it down to 3.5 on the Goodreads scale, not fully 4. One thing true of this novella, more than I recall occurring in the other Penric stories, was that at a number of points, I was forcefully reminded of LMB's other series'. Penric is very different from Miles Vorkosigan, but he shares a near-identical musing about how more responsibility/ authority surprisingly leads to LESS freedom. Penric is equally different from Dag Redwing, but there was a major controlled application of sorcerous power in the end that was perhaps too reminiscent of one "groundsetting". I'm not sure how I feel about that. Also, despite his charming reluctance to betray the stray demon or even the fox, Penric's academic curiosity is quite open to the possibility of experimentation on lower animals such as mice — and come to think of it, Dag experimented using mice, too, though I'm not sure he let any of his subjects actually die, as would be required for the procedure Penric considers. Anyway, I'll still leap just as quickly when I see the next Penric & Desdemona tale announced as I did this time, whether it's another fill-in of the years previously skipped over, or progress on his tentative romance. Even if they don't quite reach the "I LOOOVED it" level of the first, the characters and writing are still ahead of most the offerings out there in the Kindle-verse.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,411,267 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7,453 in Fantasy (Books) #47,693 in Literature & Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,514 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clever, Entertaining, Well-Written (Too-Short)
*by C***R on May 22, 2019*

It was fun to be back with Penric and his demon Desdemona. This book picks up after Penric and the Shaman. The Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl are still with Penric as they are called to investigate the murder of a sorceress. The world and its five god structure of the Mother, father, Daughter, Son and Bastard is creative and well built. It has been refreshing to read multiple series set in the same fantasy world. They are set at different times and with different sets of characters, but the reader is not completely starting from scratch. The world, its politics, and its religious orders are very well-defined, but you will learn about it best if you begin with The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt. (You won’t be unhappy- it is a terrific series.) Although the Penric and Desdemona books are not a part of that series, you will understand more about the world and in particular the five gods and religious orders that play a significant role in the political and sacred powers that are also big factors in this story if you have read those books. Penric’s investigation is concerned first with the fate of the sorceress’s demon and second with the murder of the mortal sorceress. The story is smartly plotted and cleverly told. The integration of Inglis and the other shamans into the story is a real plus. They are likable and their magic adds interest. There are light moments as with the earlier books in this Penric series. My only complaint is that the books in this series have been short (really a novella) so everything seems to begin and end quickly with no room for multiple threads of plot. Still, Penric and his demon Desdemona remain engaging and interesting. The writing is fluent and the pacing is good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not "the next chapter" I was expecting, but this younger-Penric mystery was not a disappointment
*by D***) on August 24, 2017*

As usual, Penric and Desdemona are both delightful. There's a murder to solve, with the help of old friends and new, plus interesting discussions comparing the powers and interactions of animal-imbued shamans vs. demon-riding sorcerers, and some ethical debate about how to resolve the unusual, maybe even unprecedented, fox/demon situation, mixed with Bujold's warm chuckla and exciting action. The course to the discovery of the murderer is fairly straightforward (if dramatic in climax) after a certain insight/ hypothesis is made, but the dénouement has its more serious moments, as Penric and a friend/colleague of the victim both must determine where they will draw the line between "could" (sorcerers can do a lot, forbidden or not) and "would" (given grave consequences internal and/or imposed), re. what the unrepentant killer deserves. Although Penric has not yet experienced the soul-crushing impossible-healing assignment we learn weighs him down by the time of the sequence starting with Penric's Mission, he does see here the grim and wasteful reality of selfish, irrational crime. His elderly, noble employer offers some pragmatic comfort. Clearly, I appreciated many aspects of the story, both light and thought-provoking, but I do need to mention a couple more elements that nearly made me mark it down to 3.5 on the Goodreads scale, not fully 4. One thing true of this novella, more than I recall occurring in the other Penric stories, was that at a number of points, I was forcefully reminded of LMB's other series'. Penric is very different from Miles Vorkosigan, but he shares a near-identical musing about how more responsibility/ authority surprisingly leads to LESS freedom. Penric is equally different from Dag Redwing, but there was a major controlled application of sorcerous power in the end that was perhaps too reminiscent of one "groundsetting". I'm not sure how I feel about that. Also, despite his charming reluctance to betray the stray demon or even the fox, Penric's academic curiosity is quite open to the possibility of experimentation on lower animals such as mice — and come to think of it, Dag experimented using mice, too, though I'm not sure he let any of his subjects actually die, as would be required for the procedure Penric considers. Anyway, I'll still leap just as quickly when I see the next Penric & Desdemona tale announced as I did this time, whether it's another fill-in of the years previously skipped over, or progress on his tentative romance. Even if they don't quite reach the "I LOOOVED it" level of the first, the characters and writing are still ahead of most the offerings out there in the Kindle-verse.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cute short story
*by P***K on August 2, 2025*

Interesting and amusing short story. Penric is a nice character with great quest to learn. It is not a gripping story but I would read more in the series.

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