waiting on wednesday: this savage song

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted over at Breaking the Spine!

This week's pick:

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

release date: July 5

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed 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, This Savage Song is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor.

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. In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic. Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side—including the monsters within.

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I've been following Victoria (aka V.E.) and her many writing adventures for years, and I have seen this book grow from an idea that she called "the book known as monster" to "the book formerly known as monster" to a real live thing, and I am SO excited to see what it is all about. Victoria Schwab is churning books out at an alarming pace, but I am SO not complaining, because she has yet to write something that I haven't loved. Can't wait for this one.

What are y'all waiting on this week?

xx
Caroline