Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Page Count: 427
This Savage Song was featured in the July OwlCrate box and so far I have not been disappointed by any read I have got from them, this one not being an exception – I loved it!
I know that Schwab has quite an impressive bibliography, but I haven’t read anything other than the Shades of Magic books so far. While I did enjoy them, I did not necessarily love them though, but now I have simply fallen for This Savage Song.
She created this world full of monsters and music. No one is safe. No one is truly good or evil – or at least that’s what the premise promised, but I thought it was pretty obvious who was on which side. I think that might have been a point that disappointed people a bit, but I personally didn’t really mind it. Good people have to do terrible things all the time. It’s how they deal with it afterwards that makes me decide if I still consider them good people or not and whatever August and Kate had to do in the book, you saw with a certainty that they did not fully enjoy doing really terrible acts.
At first I was a little confused with the set-up. Why were the monsters there? How were they created? How can something just begin to exist with a plop and be this fully developed being? The thing is, we don’t really get answers to that, but that is the exact same thing August is struggling with. You get a vague break-down of what happened, but it didn’t feel like a real explanation to me. Going through the same process as the character makes all the difference though and was maybe also the reason why I liked August a tiny bit more than Kate. She was tough and had something to prove, but I felt more connected to August’s struggle to just hold on. He soon turned into my baby that I just wanted to protect, but failed miserably at it.
One of the things I liked most was that it all was so quietly exciting. You got an in depth feel of the characters and their inner workings, but the real action didn’t start until the final third and I was totally okay with that. Also, I was glad to find that the ending open but not with a terrible cliffhanger. I knew going into this that it was a series and I am really looking forward to the continuation of the story. Right now our MC’s are all over the place, but I am sure they will find their way back together (just like Kell and Lila).
Fazit: 5/5 stars! It was an exciting, character-driven story that I cannot wait to dive back into with the sequels!
Have you read This Savage Song? Do you share my feelings for it or did you have a different experience? Let’s discuss!
Life and Other Disasters 
I was a little disappointed with this book. I loved the concept – but I felt like it lacked that spark that sends a book over the edge
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I am sorry you felt that way. I just connected with August so much that I couldn’t put the book down.
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Fair enough 🙂
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I’m happy to see you loved it (:
I heard nothing but amazing things about every Victoria Schwab book. Unfortunately, when I started reading This Savage Song I was in the middle of a horrible reading slump and was unable to finish the book. Which is why it’s now on my DNF shelf of books. I hope I’ll manage to bring myself to come back to it sometime. Or maybe I’ll just starts with a different Victoria Schwab
book ^^
We’ll see.
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You can always try some other time 😀 but I have heard super mixed things about This Savage Song. People were either disappointed or loved it.
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I’m happy you enjoyed it! I haven’t read this yet but I heard a lot of good things about it (and about VE Schwab in general) so I’ll definitely pick it up hopefully one day soon 🙂
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I would love to hear your thoughts about it one day too. Everyone seems to love Schwab and I guess I kind of get it, but this book did a lot more for me than the ones I read from her previously.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 😉😉😉
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I so agree with everything you’ve said. I loved the concept of the book and that whole exploration of identity and who really were the monster. I thought the whole monster trying to maintain his humanity and human trying to be a monster angle was fascinating and it really highlighted those shades of grey in us. I do hope we get more answers in regards to August and the other monster’s conception. 😀
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Yep, I definitely need a little more background and also reason why they are there! I mean, why 3 different kinds? What is the real purpose of Sunai? SO MANY QUESTIONS!
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Ahh I am ridiculously excited for this- especially now that it has your stamp of approval!!
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Hahaha it has very mixed reviews, but I really enjoyed it 😀
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haha trust me, I’m a shwab fangirl- I’m practically guaranteed to like it 😉
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Hahaha but those are exactly the people who didn’t love it
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ahh well that’s interesting! I will have to wait and see! (I’m now even more curious!)
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