Naudia 's Reviews > This Savage Song

2.5 Solid Stars

This book was shaky at best, borderline tragic at worst. Tragic meaning that the hype and plot-line was so promising to the point where once I read the story, I felt mislead. As soon as I felt like this could possibly be a good story, there went the downward spiral. The story was completely unlike what it was presented as, and not in a good way.

In the beginning, we're presented with an oddly refreshing "bad girl" character, Kate Harker. I'm not sure I would have been able to handle a "bad boy" monster, so I'm counting my blessings for that. But from what I could gather from the murky setting, the city is "overrun" with monsters.



I beg to differ. There were maybe two "monstrous" encounters I can vividly remember, but I would hardly call the city "overrun", because for some odd reason the monsters steer clear of insured humans. Insured = paying Harker for his protection. How he manages to protect these people, let alone convince them to get their insurance from him, I could not tell you. The whole thing just seemed...silly. Harker was not this intimidating figure and he even had monsters that worked under
Kate Harker is the daughter of Harker, her father, whom she refers to as such. (Weird). She has palpable daddy issues, and I felt for her on this. Instead of taking it in stride and trying to be the opposite of her tyrannical father, she instead aspires to be just. Like. Him.



This really ends up being the hair in the soup because she had no reason to want to have a goal like this, perhaps other than the fact that he was her remaining relative. The dynamic between Kate and her father was so odd. One always tried to "one up" the other and it was exhausting, and just weird. And when this issue was addressed and resolved, it was so underwhelming and anticlimactic. I just don't like when stories jerk you around in a round about circle to get you to see something that is obvious from the beginning. It's like beating a dead horse.

August had the most redeeming qualities out of all. I appreciated his character and the inner demons he was battling. It was some powerful stuff. He was apart of something bigger than him and I was 100% behind him the whole time. But. Bottom line: I didn't want massive chaos but isn't that what should be expected in a city overrun with monsters? The story would have been 10x more interesting and memorable if the monsters were indeed "running rampant". This is another case of Hyperitis. I truly believe the hype killed this book.