This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
Author: Victoria Schwab
Original Release Date: 5th July 2016
Genre: YA/Fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5
My Overall Thoughts:
How this woman comes up with her ideas I’ll never know but I love them. This Savage Song is defiantly darker than your usual YA and that’s one of the things I loved most about it, Schwab doesn’t try and hide anything from her readers, she doesn’t fluff anything up for them or try and shield them from the horrors of her world. It’s right there in front of you which makes it such a tragic book.
The whole concept is heartbreaking, with posters growing from violent acts and what is considered the most monstrous of all actually being the most human. The way that Schwab crafts her characters makes you connect to them when they are nothing like you which is what I love about her writing and she does it exactly the same in this novel. Although I did prefer reading about August to Kate I still connected with them both and didn’t find myself rushing Kate’s chapters to read about August like I usually do when there are multiple perspectives. Also, no romance! One of the most amazing parts of this book is that the two main characters are male and female and there is no romance what so ever, just a mutual respect for each other and a budding friendship.
Like I could with all of Schwab’s books that I’ve read I could go on for ever about the depth and development to her worlds, she makes something that should seem out of this world so realistic. The world she creates in this duology is so like our own in so many ways yet like nothing I have ever read before.
As much as I enjoyed this book it didn’t quite match the emotion and love I have for her trilogy, Shades of Magic, so I couldn’t quite give it 5 stars but if you’re new to Schwabs books then this is where I’d recommend to start. It matches Shades of Magic in every aspect, character development, world building, thrilling plot, but for me Shades of Magic is just more my type of book.
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