![]() ![]() “But it wasn’t very well-known in the west, which was so sad, because it’s such a fun legend.” “ was such interesting and fascinating imagery to me and a very well-known story in Korea,” Cho said of the gumiho. Vicious Spirits is the follow-up to Cho’s debut Wicked Fox, about a gumiho-a nine-tailed fox who can become a beautiful girl in order to devour men’s energy. I am very food motivated.”Īdditional inspiration for her novels comes from creatures from Korean mythology. “I think that friends in YA novels are actually really important and I wanted to be able to focus on that with some of the integral scenes in both books,” she said. lovers being separated by circumstances beyond their control struggling with family expectations).”Ĭho said she loved exploring relationships in the book, delving into the intensity of human emotion as well as writing friendships in the story. ![]() Kat Cho’s sophomore novel, Vicious Spirits, was something of an exercise in writing melodramatically, inspired by the K-dramas and soap operas Cho herself grew up with.Ĭho said K-dramas embrace story types that tend to fit well into the coming-of-age style of stories so often told in young adult books, and that “there are just really fun melodramatic tropes to play with that I wanted to play around with to create tension in the story (e.g. ![]()
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