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This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity, #1)

Victoria Schwab

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 31, 2018

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Oct 22, 2017 Kathleen added it

4.5 stars. Do you know those books that creep up on you? They start a bit slow, but suddenly you're in love with the characters and everything they do feels vital? This is one of those books.

I doubt I'll every read a Victoria Schwab book and not love it. (Don't challenge me, universe.) She's really something special, and this book is no exception.

It's a brutal, nasty story, about a monster named August who doesn't want to be a monster, and a girl named Kate Harker, who wants to prove to her fa ...more

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Jan 06, 2018 Rebecca rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Reading this went by so quickly I wasn’t ready for it to end. I love a not so good guy/bad guy story, there is never a defined line between the two.

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Feb 01, 2018 Elise Skeels-Caldwell rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian, ya, sci-fi, urban-fantasy, supernatural, 7-out-of-10

“He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight. He was made of darkness.”

The concept of This Savage Song is something that really intrigued me. I mean it's an urban fantasy, with cool paranormal sci-fi undertones, what's not to love?! And from the start, I was pulled right in.

"Monsters, monsters, big and small,
They're gonna come and eat you all."

Kate and August are the best main characters that I could have asked for in This Savage Song. I love how they both simultaneously contrast and compl ...more

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