This Savage Song

Book 1 in Monsters of Verity

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books.

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who …

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives

2 editions

Hardcover, 451 pages

Englisch language

Published July 5, 2016 by Greenwillow Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-238085-2
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Reviews

PenPaperDice@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab (duplicate)

Brought me back into Urban Fantasy

4.0 stars

So This Savage Song is part one of The Monsters of Verity and is about, in my opinion, really cool idea. It's a small setting, mostly around the city Verity. There are three types of monster: Malchai, Corsai and Sunai. As we progress the story, we learn about how they are born into the world, what they eat.

One big part is about how this is a human made issue but also a small kind of The Stand situation. We have Henry Flynn and his effort to defend the south part of the city against the monsters. There is a truce with Callum Harker who rather like a mob boss gets paid to protect the people in the northern part of the city.

The characters are interesting, although I'd say August, "son" of Henry Flynn, is the most deep, trying to figure out how he would become and …

The characters are interesting, although I'd say August, "son" of Henry Flynn, is the most deep, trying to figure out how he would become and feel human. Katherine, daughter of Callum Harker, on the other hand tries to get the approval of her father.

Of course, August' and Katherine's journey collide.

The first book is rather explaining the story, and characters with like the last third pushing the story in good pacing forward.

PenPaperDice@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab (duplicate)

To be or not to be

4.0 stars

This Savage Song was a great read and while City of Nightmares and Cage of Dreams were brilliant urban fantasy books in my opinion, This Savage Song and it seems the Monster of Verity series in itself is a great other take on monsters creeping in two sides of the same city and what people are able to do and create because of that.

I really enjoyed the idea of monsters and how they are born into the world. The features of Sunai especially are really cool and support their roles as kind of inquisitors of sinners.

The characters are also great. It focuses a lot on a small set of people but it's fun to read and follow them to find their places in a broken world.

The ending was even for me quite easy to anticipate. Still I quite liked the world building and characters …

I really enjoyed the idea of monsters and how they are born into the world. The features of Sunai especially are really cool and support their roles as kind of inquisitors of sinners.

The characters are also great. It focuses a lot on a small set of people but it's fun to read and follow them to find their places in a broken world.

The ending was even for me quite easy to anticipate. Still I quite liked the world building and characters to overlook the (maybe intentionally) weak plot twist.